Claim · model-written summary
Twenty triterpenoid saponins were isolated from Massularia stem bark.
- Taxon
- Massularia acuminata
Massularia acuminatae0 - Organ / stage
- stem barke0
- Outcome
- triterpenoid saponinse0
- Value
- 20e0
Verbatim
e0“stem bark of Massularia acuminata (Rubiaceae) led to the isolation of 20 triterpenoid saponins”
Title
Fazila Zulfiqar; Zulfiqar Ali; Hee-Sung Chae; et al. Phytochemistry 2026. doi:10.1016/j.phytochem.2026.114982
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Observation Ten of the isolated saponins were previously undescribed massularosides E-N.
- Observation Nine new saponins were bidesmosidic triterpenoid glycosides.
- Observation One new saponin was a monodesmosidic triterpenoid glycoside.
- Observation The new glycosides had oleanolic acid or hederagenin aglycone backbones.
- Observation Massularoside N had a nor oleanolic acid aglycone.
- Observation Massularosides E-G contained a 2-acetamido-2-deoxyglucose unit.
- Observation Massularoside N contained a rare sulfoquinovose moiety at aglycon C-3.
- Observation Massularosides H-M contained glucopyranosyl or glucuronopyranosyl residues linked at aglycone C-3.
- Observation Massularia bark extract increased LXR transcriptional activity 4.77 fold.
- Observation Multiple isolated saponins activated LXR.
- Observation Massularoside G was the most promising LXR activator with a 4.51 fold activity increase.
