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Identification of sesquiterpene glycosides from Dendrobium nobile and their α-glycosidase and α-amylase inhibitory activities

Abstract

Dendrobium nobile is a traditional Chinese medicine and functional food in China, with anti-aging, immunity-enhancing, glucose-lowering and lipid-lowering health functions. In recent years, the research value of D. nobile has attracted the attention of more and more experts and scholars. Today, phytochemical investigation of the stems of Dendrobium nobile Lindl., led to the isolation of five sesquiterpene glycosides, including dendromoniliside D (1), dendronobiloside A (2), dendronobiloside C (3), dendronobiloside D (4), dendroside G (5) and their α-amylase and α-glycosidase inhibitory activities were also investigated. Among them, dendromoniliside D (1), dendroside G (5) were first isolated from D. nobile. And dendronobiloside A (2) and dendronobiloside C (3) exhibited better inhibitory activity against α-glycosidases, respectively. In the case of α-amylase inhibition, dendroside G (5) has a relatively good effect. These results suggest that sesquiterpene glycosides of D. nobile have potential hypoglycemic activity and deserve further research and development.

Keywords:
Dendrobium nobile; isolation and identification; sesquiterpene glycosides; α-amylase; α-glycosidase

1 Introduction

In recent years, the research and development of functional products made from herbs has attracted increasing attention (Ruiz-Cisneros et al., 2022Ruiz-Cisneros, M. F., Ornelas-Paz, J. J., Olivas-Orozco, G. I., Acosta-Muñiz, C. H., Salas-Marina, M. Á., Molina-Corral, F. J., Berlanga-Reyes, D. I., Fernández-Pavía, S. P., Cambero-Campos, O. J., & Rios-Velasco, C. (2022). Effect of rhizosphere inoculation with Bacillus strains and phytopathogens on the contents of volatiles and human health-related compounds in tomato fruits. Food Science and Technology, 42, e51120. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/fst.51120.
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; Wang et al., 2022aWang, G., Wang, J., Deng, Y., Qin, L., He, Y., & Tan, D. (2022a). Chemical constituents and nutritional health functions of Dendrobium nobile: a review. Food Science and Technology, 42, e84522.; Wang et al., 2022bWang, J., Wang, G., Wang, X., Qin, L., Xu, C., She, X., He, Y., & Tan, D. (2022b). Chemical constituents and bioactivities of Rosa roxburghii: a systematic review. Food Science and Technology, 42, e72722.; Yin et al., 2022Yin, M., Xie, J., Xie, C., Luo, M., & Yang, X. (2022). Extration, identification and stability ananlysis of anthocyanins from organic Guizhou blueberries in China. Food Science and Technology, 42, e33520. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/fst.33520.
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). The genus Dendrobium contains approximately 1100 species, which is one of the largest genera in the family Orchidacea, and mainly distributed in southwestern Asia, Europe and Australia, such as China, Thailand, Myanmar and Vietnam (Yu et al., 2015Yu, Z., Gong, C., Lu, B., Yang, L., Sheng, Y., Ji, L., & Wang, Z. (2015). Dendrobium chrysotoxum Lindl. alleviates diabetic retinopathy by preventing retinal inflammation and tight junction protein decrease. Journal of Diabetes Research, 2015, 518317. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/518317. PMid:25685822.
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). In traditional medicine, several Dendrobium species are used for various diseases or as beverages (Cakova et al., 2017Cakova, V., Bonte, F., & Lobstein, A. (2017). Dendrobium: sources of active ingredients to treat age-related pathologies. Aging and Disease, 8(6), 827-849. http://dx.doi.org/10.14336/AD.2017.0214. PMid:29344419.
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; Xu et al., 2013Xu, J., Han, Q.-B., Li, S.-L., Chen, X.-J., Wang, X.-N., Zhao, Z.-Z., & Chen, H.-B. (2013). Chemistry, bioactivity and quality control of Dendrobium, a commonly used tonic herb in traditional Chinese medicine. Phytochemistry Reviews, 12(2), 341-367. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11101-013-9310-8.
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). Among them, the stems of D. nobile is the most dominant sources of Shihu, a famous traditional Chinese medicine (Chinese Pharmacopoeia Commission, 2020Chinese Pharmacopoeia Commission. (2020). Pharmacopoeia of the People’s Republic of China (vol. 1). Beijing: Chemical Industry Press.) and used as a tonic to nourish Yin, clear heat, nourish stomach, and replenish body fluid (Cakova et al., 2017Cakova, V., Bonte, F., & Lobstein, A. (2017). Dendrobium: sources of active ingredients to treat age-related pathologies. Aging and Disease, 8(6), 827-849. http://dx.doi.org/10.14336/AD.2017.0214. PMid:29344419.
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; Shin et al., 2017Shin, H. K., Kim, T. W., Kim, Y. J., Park, S. R., Seo, C. S., Ha, H., & Jung, J. Y. (2017). Protective effects of Dendrobium nobile against Cisplatin nephrotoxicity both in-vitro and in-vivo. Iranian Journal of Pharmaceutical Research, 16(Suppl.), 197-206. PMid:29844791.; Xu et al., 2017Xu, X., Li, Q., & Li, B. (2017). Review of research on polysaccharides and dendrobine of Dendrobium nobile Lindl. Research & Reviews: Journal of Botanical Sciences, 2, 54-56.). In term of pharmacological effects, D. nobile exhibits effects of regulating lipid metabolism, antioxidant activity, protecting the nervous system, anti-immune activity, antifibrosis, antitumor, and others. Previous phytochemical investigations on D. nobile indicated that diversified compounds, including sesquiterpene glycosides, alkaloids, bibenzyls, plysaccharides and phenanthrenes have been isolated from this plant (Lam et al., 2015Lam, Y., Ng, T. B., Yao, R. M., Shi, J., Xu, K., Sze, S. C., & Zhang, K. Y. (2015). Evaluation of chemical constituents and important mechanism of pharmacological biology in dendrobium plants. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2015, 841752. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/841752. PMid:25945114.
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; Thanh et al., 2017Thanh, N. T. V., Ly, G. T. P., Tram, L. H., Tai, B. H., Huy, V. Q., & Kiem, P. V. (2017). A new picrotoxane sesquiterpene glucoside from Dendrobium nobile. Natural Product Communications, 12(12), 1825-1826. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1934578X1701201202.
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; Wang et al., 2019Wang, P., Chen, X., Wang, H., Huang, S., Cai, C., Yuan, J., Zhu, G., Xu, X., Mei, W., & Dai, H. (2019). Four new picrotoxane-type sesquiterpenes from Dendrobium nobile Lindl. Frontiers in Chemistry, 7, 812. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2019.00812. PMid:31850306.
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; Xu et al., 2013Xu, J., Han, Q.-B., Li, S.-L., Chen, X.-J., Wang, X.-N., Zhao, Z.-Z., & Chen, H.-B. (2013). Chemistry, bioactivity and quality control of Dendrobium, a commonly used tonic herb in traditional Chinese medicine. Phytochemistry Reviews, 12(2), 341-367. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11101-013-9310-8.
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; Xu et al., 2017Xu, X., Li, Q., & Li, B. (2017). Review of research on polysaccharides and dendrobine of Dendrobium nobile Lindl. Research & Reviews: Journal of Botanical Sciences, 2, 54-56.). Among them, protecting the nervous system, regulating lipid metabolism has been closely related to alkaloids (Huang et al., 2019Huang, S., Wu, Q., Liu, H., Ling, H., He, Y., Wang, C., Wang, Z., Lu, Y., & Lu, Y. (2019). Alkaloids of dendrobium nobile lindl. Altered hepatic lipid homeostasis via regulation of bile acids. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 241, 111976. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jep.2019.111976. PMid:31132462.
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; Lv et al., 2020Lv, L. L., Liu, B., Liu, J., Li, L. S., Jin, F., Xu, Y. Y., Wu, Q., Liu, J., & Shi, J. S. (2020). Dendrobium nobile Lindl. alkaloids ameliorate cognitive dysfunction in senescence accelerated SAMP8 mice by decreasing Amyloid-β aggregation and enhancing autophagy activity. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 76(2), 657-669. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/JAD-200308. PMid:32538851.
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). However, for the effect of anti-immune activity, sesquiterpene glycosides were found to stimulate the proliferation of the proliferation of B cells in vitro (Lu et al., 2022Lu, A.-J., Jiang, Y., Wu, J., Tan, D.-P., Qin, L., Lu, Y.-L., Qian, Y., Bai, C.-J., Yang, J.-Y., Ling, H., Shi, J.-S., Yang, Z., & He, Y.-Q. (2022). Opposite trends of glycosides and alkaloids in Dendrobium nobile of different age based on UPLC-Q/TOF-MS combined with multivariate statistical analyses. Phytochemical Analysis, 33(4), 619-634. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pca.3115. PMid:35238089.
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). Specifically, picrotoxane sesquiterpene glycosides were considered as key intermediates in the biosynthesis of dendrobine, a major quality marker in D. nobile (Gong et al., 2021Gong, D. Y., Chen, X. Y., Guo, S. X., Wang, B. C., & Li, B. (2021). Recent advances and new insights in biosynthesis of dendrobine and sesquiterpenes. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 105(18), 6597-6606. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00253-021-11534-1. PMid:34463801.
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). In the present continuation of phytochemical investigation of D. nobile, five sesquiterpene glycosides, including dendromoniliside D (1), dendronobiloside A (2), dendronobiloside C (3), dendronobiloside D (4), dendroside G (5) were isolated and elucidated by HR-ESI-MS, NMR spectroscopic analyses, and their α-amylase and α-glycosidase inhibitory activities were also investigated.

2 Experimental

2.1 General experimental procedures

In the separation process, the column chromatography (CC) was performed by silica-gel (100-200 and 300-400 mesh, Qingdao Marine Chemical Co., Qingdao, China), and Sephadex LH-20 (GE Healthcare, Marlborough, MA). The TLC detection was carried by heating silica gel plate (Qingdao Marine Chemical Co., Qingdao, China) spayed with 10% H2SO4 in ethanol.

α-Glycosidase (100 U), α-amylase (50 U), p-Nitrophenyl-α-D-glucopyranoside (PNPG, 99%), acarbose and DNS reagents were purchased from Beijing Solexpo Technology Co.

NMR spectra were recorded on a Varian INOVA AS 400 instrument (Agilent, USA) with TMS as internal standard. ESIMS data were collected by a UPLC–Q/TOF-MS system including a 1290 Infinity II UPLC system (Agilent, USA) and an Agilent 6545 Q/TOF-MS system (Agilent, MA, USA). The absorbance was recorded by a microplate spectrophotometer (Thermo, USA).

2.2 Plant materials

D. nobile were collected from the Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) bases located in Chishui City, China in 2019 and authenticated by Associate Professor Daopeng Tan (pharmacognosy, Zunyi medical university). A voucher specimen (No. 201906) was deposited in the herbarium of Zunyi medical university.

2.3 Extraction and isolation

The air-dried D. nobile (5.0 kg) were cut into slices and then extracted with 75 L 70% EtOH by reflux extraction three times. The combined extraction solution was concentrated under vacuum to yield a viscous residue. The crude extract residue (500 g) was fractionated through an AB-8 macroporous resin column and eluted by water and 50% methanol sequentially. The 50% methanol fraction was concentrated through evaporating the solvent to obtain the total sesquiterpene glycosides extract (206 g). The total sesquiterpene glycosides extract was then subjected to reverse phase ODS column chromatography and yield five subfractions (Fr.1~5). semi-preparative HPLC and Sephadex LH-20 column were employed to purified aforesaid subfractions, and finally yielded five compounds, including 1 (35 mg), 2 (44 mg), 3 (27 mg), 4 (256 mg), 5 (55 mg).

2.4 α-Glucosidase inhibition activity

The α-glucosidase inhibitory activity was determined by the microplate method (Purnomo et al., 2021Purnomo, Y., Makdasari, J., & Fatahillah, F. I. (2021). Inhibitory activity of Urena lobata leaf extract on alpha-amylase and alpha-glucosidase: in vitro and in silico approach. Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology, 32(4), 889-894. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jbcpp-2020-0430. PMid:34214371.
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). In a 96-well plate, 50 μL of phosphate buffer solution (PBS, pH 6.8), 50 μL of sample solution, 10 μL of α-glucosidase solution (1 U/mL, pH 6.8 PBS) were added separately. After shaking and mixing well, reaction solution was incubated at 37 °C for 15 min, and then added 40 μL of 5 mmol/L PNPG, continue to incubate for 15 min at 37 °C. At last, the reaction was terminated by adding 40 μL of sodium carbonate solution. Before and after incubation, the absorbance was recorded at 405 nm on a microplate spectrophotometer. Acarbose was used as a positive reference. The a-glucosidase inhibition activity was expressed as inhibition (%) and was calculated as Equation 1:

.Inhibition % = (1 ΔAsample/ΔAcontrol)×100% (1)

2.5 α-Amylase inhibition activity

The α-amylase inhibitory activity was measured by microplate method (Purnomo et al., 2021Purnomo, Y., Makdasari, J., & Fatahillah, F. I. (2021). Inhibitory activity of Urena lobata leaf extract on alpha-amylase and alpha-glucosidase: in vitro and in silico approach. Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology, 32(4), 889-894. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jbcpp-2020-0430. PMid:34214371.
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). 50 μL sample solution, 50 μL 2.5 U/mL α-amylase were added in a 96-well plate, shaking and mixing, and incubating at 37 °C for 10 min, then added 100 μL 1.5% soluble starch solution, mixing, react at 37 °C for 10 min, immediately add 300 μL DNS for color development, cooling to room temperature after boiling water bath at 95 °C for 10 min, adding 1000 μL PBS diluted to 1500 μL. Before and after incubation, the absorbance was recorded at 405 nm on a microplate spectrophotometer (Thermo). Acarbose was used as a positive reference. The a-amylase inhibition activity was also expressed as Equation 1.

2.6 Molecular docking studies

To investigate the binding modes of dendronobiloside A, dendronobiloside C and dendroside G, a docking simulation was performed targeting the crystal structure of α-glucosidase and α-amylase (Purnomo et al., 2021Purnomo, Y., Makdasari, J., & Fatahillah, F. I. (2021). Inhibitory activity of Urena lobata leaf extract on alpha-amylase and alpha-glucosidase: in vitro and in silico approach. Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology, 32(4), 889-894. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jbcpp-2020-0430. PMid:34214371.
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). The crystal structures were retrieved from the PDB, and the a-glycosidase (PDB code: 1MFU) and a-amylase (PDB code: 3BAJ) were pre-docked using the Autodock software. The 3D structures of dendronobiloside A, dendronobiloside C and dendroside G were built by ChemBioDraw Ultra14.0 and then converted to PDBQT coordinateds using AutoDockTools. The rotatable bonds in the ligand were assigned with AutoDock Tools, and the ligand docking was performed with the AutoDock Vina. Construct 2D maps of protein-ligand interactions using LigPlot software to analyze the interaction forces between protein and ligand binding. Construct 3D maps of protein-ligand interactions using PyMOL software to view the binding sites between proteins and ligands.

2.7 Statistical analysis

The experimental results including α-glucosidase and α-amylase activity assay were expressed as mean value ± standard deviation (n = 3), and data were analyzed using the Origin software (Version 8.0).

3 Results and discussion

3.1 Structure elucidation

All structures of compounds 1~5 were elucidated and identified as dendromoniliside D (1) (Ye & Zhao, 2002Ye, Q., & Zhao, W. (2002). New alloaromadendrane, cadinene and cyclocopacamphane type sesquiterpene derivatives and bibenzyls from Dendrobium nobile. Planta Medica, 68(8), 723-729. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-2002-33786. PMid:12221596.
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), dendronobiloside A (2) (Thanh et al., 2017Thanh, N. T. V., Ly, G. T. P., Tram, L. H., Tai, B. H., Huy, V. Q., & Kiem, P. V. (2017). A new picrotoxane sesquiterpene glucoside from Dendrobium nobile. Natural Product Communications, 12(12), 1825-1826. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1934578X1701201202.
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), dendronobiloside C (3) (Ye & Zhao, 2002Ye, Q., & Zhao, W. (2002). New alloaromadendrane, cadinene and cyclocopacamphane type sesquiterpene derivatives and bibenzyls from Dendrobium nobile. Planta Medica, 68(8), 723-729. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-2002-33786. PMid:12221596.
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), dendronobiloside D (4) (Ye & Zhao, 2002Ye, Q., & Zhao, W. (2002). New alloaromadendrane, cadinene and cyclocopacamphane type sesquiterpene derivatives and bibenzyls from Dendrobium nobile. Planta Medica, 68(8), 723-729. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-2002-33786. PMid:12221596.
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), dendroside G (5) (Ye & Zhao, 2002Ye, Q., & Zhao, W. (2002). New alloaromadendrane, cadinene and cyclocopacamphane type sesquiterpene derivatives and bibenzyls from Dendrobium nobile. Planta Medica, 68(8), 723-729. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-2002-33786. PMid:12221596.
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) (Figure 1), respectively, by ESIMS, NMR spectroscopic analyses and direct comparison of their data with the literature.

Figure 1
Structures of compounds 1~5 isolated from D. nobile.

Dendromoniliside D: white amorphous powder; ESI-MS: m/z = 491.2198 [M+FA-H]- (C21H34O10); 1H NMR (600 MHz, C5D5N): 4.21 (d, J = 6.0 Hz, H-2), 4.51 (m, H-3), 2.08 (m, H-4), 2.38 (m, H-5), 2.71 (m, H-6), 2.07, 1.61 (m, H-7), 2.37, 2.08 (m, H-8), 3.22 (s, H-9), 1.40 (s, H-10), 3.91, 4.20 (m, H-11), 1.38 (m, H-13, 14), 4.88 (d, J = 6.0 Hz, H-1’), 4.02 (m, H-2’), 4.25 (m, H-3’), 4.22 (m, H-4’), 4.01 (m, H-5’), 4.41, 4.54 (m, H-6’); 13C NMR (150 MHz, C5D5N): 13C NMR (150 MHz, C5D5N): 50.8 (C-1), 73.8 (C-2), 86.0 (C-3), 54.6 (C-4), 47.2 (C-5), 45.7 (C-6), 27.2 (C-7), 29.7 (C-8), 44.5 (C-9), 23.4 (C-10), 74.3 (C-11), 69.4 (C-12), 30.7 (C-13), 31.1 (C-14), 180.2 (C-15), 105.3 (C-1’), 75.5 (C-2’), 79.0 (C-3’), 72.0 (C-4’), 79.0 (C-5’), 63.2 (C-6’) (Ye & Zhao, 2002Ye, Q., & Zhao, W. (2002). New alloaromadendrane, cadinene and cyclocopacamphane type sesquiterpene derivatives and bibenzyls from Dendrobium nobile. Planta Medica, 68(8), 723-729. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-2002-33786. PMid:12221596.
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Dendronobiloside A: white amorphous powder; ESI-MS: m/z = 609.3135 [M+FA-H]- (C27H48O12); 1H NMR (600 MHz, C5D5N): 2.10 (m, H-1), 1.28 (m, H-2), 1.09, 1.30 (m, H-3), 1.09, 1.22 (m, H-4), 2.05 (m, H-6), 1.50, 2.00 (m, H-7), 1.50,1.87 (m, H-8), 2.10 (m, H-9), 3.88 (m, H-10), 2.05 (m, H-11), 3.57 (t, J = 12.0 Hz, H-12), 4.29 (m, H-12), 1.06 (s, H-13), 0.86 (d, J = 6.0 Hz,, H-14), 0.76 (d, J = 6.0 Hz,, H-15), 4.87 (d, J = 6.0 Hz, H-1’), 4.06 (m, H-2’), 4.27 (m, H-3’), 4.24 (m, H-4’), 3.99 (m, H-5’), 4.41, 4.58 (m, H-6’), 4.87 (d, J = 6.0 Hz, H-1”), 4.06 (m, H-2”), 4.28 (m, H-3”), 4.26 (m, H-4”), 4.04 (m, H-5”), 4.43, 4.61 (m, H-6”); 13C NMR (150 MHz, C5D5N): 36.9 (C-1), 39.7 (C-2), 20.5 (C-3), 27.6 (C-4), 42.2 (C-5), 52.0 (C-6), 26.7 (C-7), 23.0 (C-8), 48.9 (C-9), 71.8 (C-10), 27.4 (C-11), 71.8 (C-12), 24.2 (C-13), 22.2 (C-14), 15.8 (C-15), 105.6 (C-1’), 75.7 (C-2’), 79.2 (C-3’), 72.3 (C-4’), 79.0 (C-5’), 63.4 (C-6’), 105.2 (C-1”), 75.6 (C-2”), 79.1 (C-3”), 72.3 (C-4”), 79.0 (C-5”), 63.4 (C-6”) (Thanh et al., 2017Thanh, N. T. V., Ly, G. T. P., Tram, L. H., Tai, B. H., Huy, V. Q., & Kiem, P. V. (2017). A new picrotoxane sesquiterpene glucoside from Dendrobium nobile. Natural Product Communications, 12(12), 1825-1826. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1934578X1701201202.
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Dendronobiloside C: white amorphous powder; ESI-MS: m/z = 605.2825 [M+FA-H]- (C27H44O12); 1H NMR (600 MHz, C5D5N): 1.99, 3.03 (m, H-2), 2.13,2.35 (m, H-3), 5.96 (s, H-5), 2.62 (brs, H-6), 1.10 (m, H-7), 1.11,1.56 (m, H-8), 2.08,2.58 (m, H-9), 4.29,4.56 (m, H-11), 2.01 (m, H-12), 0.69 (d, J = 6.0 Hz, H-13), 0.85 (d, J = 6.0 Hz, H-14), 4.38, 4.60 (m, H-15), 4.89 (d, J = 6.0 Hz, H-1’), 4.08 (m, H-2’), 4.28 (m, H-3’), 4.26 (m, H-4’), 3.97 (m, H-5’), 4.40, 4.58 (m, H-6’), 4.89 (d, J = 6.0 Hz, H-1”), 4.08 (m, H-2”), 4.28 (m, H-3”), 4.26 (m, H-4”), 3.98 (m, H-5”), 4.40, 4.58 (m, H-6”); 13C NMR (150 MHz, C5D5N): 137.3 (C-1), 27.3 (C-2), 29.4 (C-3), 135.6 (C-4), 127.7 (C-5), 40.5 (C-6), 45.6 (C-7), 21.8 (C-8), 29.0 (C-9), 126.8 (C-10), 73.7 (C-11), 27.2 (C-12), 16.2 (C-13), 22.2 (C-14), 68.3 (C-15), 103.5 (C-1’), 75.7 (C-2’), 79.0 (C-3’), 72.2 (C-4’), 79.1 (C-5’), 63.3 (C-6’), 104.4 (C-1”), 75.7 (C-2”), 79.1 (C-3”), 72.3 (C-4”), 79.1 (C-5”), 63.4 (C-6”) (Ye & Zhao, 2002Ye, Q., & Zhao, W. (2002). New alloaromadendrane, cadinene and cyclocopacamphane type sesquiterpene derivatives and bibenzyls from Dendrobium nobile. Planta Medica, 68(8), 723-729. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-2002-33786. PMid:12221596.
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Dendronobiloside D: white amorphous powder; ESI-MS: m/z = 605.2826 [M+FA-H]- (C27H44O12); 1H NMR (600 MHz, C5D5N): 1.95, 3.02 (m, H-2), 1.97 (m, H-3), 5.54 (s, H-5), 2.62 (brd, J = 7.0 Hz, H-6), 1.50 (m, H-7), 1.15,1.52 (m, H-8), 1.99, 2.52 (m, H-9), 1.61 (s, H-11), 2.42 (m, H-12), 0.86 (d, J = 6.0 Hz, H-13), 3.59, 4.08 (m, H-14), 4.39, 4.62 (m, H-15), 4.89 (d, J = 6.0 Hz, H-1’), 4.06 (m, H-2’), 4.28 (m, H-3’), 4.24 (m, H-4’), 3.99 (m, H-5’), 4.43, 4.60 (m, H-6’), 4.88 (d, J = 6.0 Hz, H-1”), 4.06 (m, H-2”), 4.28 (m, H-3”), 4.24 (m, H-4”), 3.99 (m, H-5”), 4.43, 4.60 (m, H-6”); 13C NMR (150 MHz, C5D5N): 137.4 (C-1), 27.5 (C-2), 33.2 (C-3), 134.7 (C-4), 124.7 (C-5), 40.0 (C-6), 40.9 (C-7), 22.5 (C-8), 28.9 (C-9), 126.4 (C-10), 23.9 (C-11), 33.7 (C-12), 11.6 (C-13), 74.8 (C-14), 68.3 (C-15), 105.5 (C-1’), 75.7 (C-2’), 79.0 (C-3’), 72.2 (C-4’), 79.1 (C-5’), 63.4 (C-6’), 103.4 (C-1”), 75.7 (C-2”), 79.0 (C-3”), 72.3 (C-4”), 79.1 (C-5”), 63.4 (C-6”) (Ye & Zhao, 2002Ye, Q., & Zhao, W. (2002). New alloaromadendrane, cadinene and cyclocopacamphane type sesquiterpene derivatives and bibenzyls from Dendrobium nobile. Planta Medica, 68(8), 723-729. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-2002-33786. PMid:12221596.
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Dendroside G: white amorphous powder; ESI-MS: m/z = 491.2149 [M+FA-H]- (C21H34O10); 1H NMR (600 MHz, C5D5N): 2.75 (d, J = 4.0 Hz, H-1), 2.21 (m, H-2), 2.11 (m, H-3), 1.65, 2.41 (m, H-4), 3.56 (m, H-5), 4.17 (s, H-7), 5.02 (s, H-8), 2.05 (m, H-11), 1.14 (d, J=6.0 Hz, H-12), 1.13 (d, J=6.0 Hz, H-13), 4.22, 4.50(m, H-14), 1.25 (m, H-15), 4.88 (d, J = 6.0 Hz, H-1’), 4.02 (m, H-2’), 4.25 (m, H-3’), 4.23 (m, H-4’), 4.01 (m, H-5’), 4.42, 4.55 (m, H-6’); 13C NMR (150 MHz, C5D5N): 13C NMR (150 MHz, C5D5N): 55.1 (C-1), 48.2 (C-2), 27.2 (C-3), 29.4 (C-4), 44.7 (C-5), 49.1 (C-6), 75.9 (C-7), 90.4 (C-8), 180.0 (C-9), 81.8 (C-10), 29.7 (C-11), 16.9 (C-12), 16.0 (C-13), 74.0 (C-14), 25.3 (C-15), 105.3 (C-1’), 75.5 (C-2’), 79.0 (C-3’), 72.1 (C-4’), 79.0 (C-5’), 63.3 (C-6’) (Ye & Zhao, 2002Ye, Q., & Zhao, W. (2002). New alloaromadendrane, cadinene and cyclocopacamphane type sesquiterpene derivatives and bibenzyls from Dendrobium nobile. Planta Medica, 68(8), 723-729. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-2002-33786. PMid:12221596.
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3.2 Enzyme inhibition activity

The inhibitory activity of compounds 1~5 isolated from D. nobile against α-glucosidase and α-amylase were assayed by microplate method. The results were showed in Table 1. Among them, dendronobiloside A (2) and dendronobiloside C (3) exhibited better inhibitory activity against α-glycosidases. To further investigate the dose-dependent effects of dendronobiloside A (2) and dendronobiloside C (3) on α-glucosidase inhibitory activity, the IC50 values were determined to be 299.7 ± 2.38 μg/mL (dendronobiloside A, 2) and 537.8 ± 2.33 μg/mL (dendronobiloside C, 3), respectively. In the case of α-amylase inhibition, dendroside G (5) has a relatively good effect. Furthermore, its IC50 value was determined to be 1.06 ± 0.06 mg/mL (dendroside G, 5).

Table 1
The α-glucosidase and α-amylase inhibition of compounds 1~5 (1.0 mg/mL).

3.3 Molecular docking analysis

To clarify the interaction between dendronobiloside A (2) and dendronobiloside C (3) and α-glucosidase, or dendroside G (5) and α-amylase, the molecular docking was used to simulate their binding modes. After docking, the conformational clusters with the lowest binding free energy in the docked complex of dendronobiloside A (2) and dendronobiloside C (3) with α-glucosidase were shown in Fig. 2. and dendroside G (5) with α-amylase was shown in Fig. 3. Their lowest binding energy of -7.3 kacl/mol (dendronobiloside A, 2), -8.4 kacl/mol (dendronobiloside C, 3) and -8.2 kacl/mol (dendroside G, 5) were selected as the final model. These results implied that dendronobiloside A (2) has larger binding affinities with α-glucosidase, and dendroside G (5) with α-amylase.

Figure 2
Dendronobiloside A (A) and dendronobiloside C (B) were docked to the binding pocket of the α-glucosidase.
Figure 3
Dendroside G was docked to the binding pocket of the α-amylase.

4 Conclusion

In the present study, five sesquiterpene glycosides were isolated and elucidated from D. nobile. And their α-amylase and α-glycosidase inhibitory activities were also investigated. The results showed that dendronobiloside A (2) and dendronobiloside C (3) exhibited better inhibitory activity against α-glycosidases, respectively. In the case of α-amylase inhibition, dendroside G (5) has a relatively good effect. These results suggest that sesquiterpene glycosides of D. nobile have potential hypoglycemic activity and deserve further research and development.

Acknowledgements

This work was financially supported by the Department of Science and Technology of Guizhou Province (Nos. QKHZC [2019]2953, QKHZC[2021]420, QKHZC [2020]4Y072, QKHPTRC [2018]5772-001), Department of Education of Guizhou Province (QJHKY [2021]049), Guizhou Engineering Research Center of Industrial Key-technology for Dendrobium Nobile (QJJ [2022]048 and QJJ [2022]006) and the Science and Technology Innovation Action Plan of Domestic Science and Technology Cooperation Projects in Shanghai (20025800400).

  • Practical Application: The investigation of sesquiterpene glycosides provides the important information for consumers and researchers to understand Dendrobium nobile chemical constituents and bioactivites.

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Publication Dates

  • Publication in this collection
    28 Nov 2022
  • Date of issue
    2023

History

  • Received
    22 Aug 2022
  • Accepted
    18 Oct 2022
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