Chinese Journal of Marine Drugs 2000;0(06):-

Studies on chemical constituents of the sea cucumber Holothuria fuscocinerea

Shuyu ZHANG

Keywords

sea cucumber; Holothuria fuscocinerea; triterpene glycosides; Pyricularia oryzae; cytotoxicity

Country

China

Language

Chinese

Abstract

Objective To study the chemical constituents of the sea cucumber Holothuria fuscocinerea collected from the South China Sea.Methods The compounds were isolated by Pyricularia oryzae bioassay-guided fractionation method in combination with extraction and partition as well as multi-chromatography.Their structures were determined on the basis of spectral analysis and chemical evidence.Results Three triterpene glycosides were isolated from the n-BuOH extract and identified as: pervicoside C(Ⅰ),holothurin A(Ⅱ) and DS-holoturin B(Ⅲ);Four compounds [uracil(Ⅳ),thymine(Ⅴ),thymidine(Ⅵ) and 2'-deoxyuridine(Ⅶ)] were obtained from the CHCl_(3) extract.Conclusion All the compounds were isolated from this sea cucumber for the first time while Compound Ⅰ was first obtained as pure compound.Compound Ⅰ and Ⅱ were active compounds causing morphological abnormality of P.oryzae mycelia and exhibited cytotoxicity against two cancer cell lines.