Abstract
Introduction
As can be seen, drug discovery and development have been basically relied on natural products, particularly in the treatment of cancer and infectious diseases.
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Moreover, the global utilization of medicinal plants for diseases has seen a notable surge in recent decades.
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The genus
Among the 24 species of
Results and Discussion
Through employing a comprehensive array of chromatographic separation techniques, we successfully isolated ten pure compounds (

Chemical structures of the isolated compounds (
The structural elucidation of these compounds, namely taraxerol (
All isolates (
Previously, we reported the cytotoxicity profiles of
Conclusion
In this study, 7 compounds were isolated for the first time from the
Materials and Methods
Plant Materials
Extraction and Isolation
The dried leaves of
The GBH extract was subjected to fractionation, yielding 8 subfractions (H1-H8) through chromatography on a silica gel column with
The GBE extract was initially fractionated into 8 subfractions (E1-E6) using chromatography on a silica gel column, with elution using CH2Cl2:EtOAc (12.5:1, v/v) as the solvent mixture. Fraction E2 (790 mg) yielded a precipitate, which, after filtration and methanol washing, was recrystallized in CH2Cl2:MeOH (1:1, v/v) to produce
Cytotoxicity Assays
Cytotoxicity of isolated compounds against the growth of human cancer cell lines (SK-LU-1, Hep-G2, MCF-7, and KB) was determined by the Sulforhodamine B assay. The details of the protocols have been carefully described in our previous reports.21,22
Supplemental Material
sj-docx-1-npx-10.1177_1934578X241250251 - Supplemental material for Chemical Constituents From the Leaves of Grewia bulot Gagn. and Their Cytotoxic Activity
Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-npx-10.1177_1934578X241250251 for Chemical Constituents From the Leaves of
Footnotes
Acknowledgments
The authors are grateful to Mr Luong Vu Dang (Institute of Chemistry, VAST, Hanoi, Vietnam) for recording the NMR spectra.
Authors’ Contributions
Ty Viet Pham, Duc Viet Ho, Anh Tuan Le, and Bao Chi Nguyen conceived and designed research. Ty Viet Pham, Duc Viet Ho, Y Duy Ngo, Nhan Thanh Thi Dang, Thang Quoc Le, Son The Ninh, Anh Tuan Le, and Bao Chi Nguyen conducted experiments and analyze data. Ty Viet Pham, Duc Viet Ho, and Bao Chi Nguyen wrote the manuscript. All authors read and approved the manuscript.
Declaration of Conflicting Interests
The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
Funding
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by Ministry of Education and Training under grant (number B2022-DHH-13) and the partial support of Hue University under the Core Research Program (ID No. NCM.DHH.2023.02).
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