Betulinic acid: isolation from Triphyophyllum peltatum and Ancistrocladus heyneanus, antimalarial activity, and crystal structure of the benzyl ester

Planta Med. 1997 Jun;63(3):255-7. doi: 10.1055/s-2006-957666.

Abstract

The known lupane-type triterpene betulinic acid (3) was isolated for the first time from Triphyophyllum peltatum and Ancistrocladus heyneanus. It was found to exhibit moderate to good in vitro antimalarial activity against asexual erythrocytic stages of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. A first X-ray structure analysis succeeded after conversion into its benzyl ester 4.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Antimalarials / chemistry
  • Antimalarials / isolation & purification*
  • Antimalarials / toxicity
  • Betulinic Acid
  • Crystallography, X-Ray
  • Erythrocytes / parasitology
  • Humans
  • Models, Molecular
  • Molecular Structure
  • Pentacyclic Triterpenes
  • Plants, Medicinal*
  • Plasmodium falciparum / drug effects*
  • Triterpenes / chemistry
  • Triterpenes / isolation & purification*
  • Triterpenes / toxicity

Substances

  • Antimalarials
  • Pentacyclic Triterpenes
  • Triterpenes
  • Betulinic Acid