Furoquinoline alkaloid

Furoquinoline alkaloids are a group of alkaloids with simple structure. Distribution of this group of alkaloids is essentially limited to plant family Rutaceae. The simplest member of this group is dictamnine and most widespread member is skimmianine.[1]

Chemical structure of dictamnine
Chemical structure of skimmianine (β-fagarine)

A furoquinoline alkaloid, dictamnine, is very common within the family Rutaceae. It is the main alkaloid in the roots of Dictamnus albus and responsible for the mutagenicity of the drug derived from crude extracts.[2] Dictamnine was also reported to be a phototoxic and photomutagenic compound.[3] It participates in the severe skin phototoxicity of the plant.[4] Another furoquinoline alkaloid, skimmianine, has strong antiacetylcholinesterase activity.[5]

Chemistry

Thomas first isolated dictamnine from Rutaceae in 1923. It is very weak base, shows similar reaction with methyl iodide and dimethyl sulfate or diazomethane, does not form a derivative but go through isomerization to isodictamnine. Dictamine have linear structure which is confirmed as it forms dictamnic acid by oxidative degradation with potassium permanganate. Dieckmann cyclization followed by methylation and hydrolysis confirmed the structure of the acid. Skimmianine, another common furoquinoline alkaloid also shows a very similar type of chemistry to dictamine. Skimmianine also has a linear structure as it gave 3-ethyl-4,7,8-trimethoxy-2-quinolone from hydrolysis.[1]

Pharmacological properties

Some furoquinoline alkaloids have been found to have in vitro pharmacological properties such as antimicrobial, antiviral, mutagenic and cytotoxic activities. They also show antiplatelet aggregation, inhibition of various enzymes, antibacterial, and antifungal activity.[6] Dictamnine has the property of causing smooth muscle contraction.[1] Skimmianine,[1] extracted from Esenbeckia leiocarpa Engl. (Rutaceae), a native tree from Brazil popularly known as guarantã, show acetylcholinesterase inhibition.[7] Furoquinoline alkaloids extracted from Teclea afzelii (Rutaceae) plants, collected at Elounden, centre province of Cameroon, have antiplasmodial activities.[8] Another study shows that some furoquinoline alkaloids have in vitro activity against Plasmodium falciparum, one of the species of Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans.[9] One furoquinoline alkaloid, 5-(1,1-dimethylallyl)-8-hydroxy-furo[2-3-b]quinolone, shows antifungal properties against Rhizoctonia solani, Sclerotium rolfsi, and Fusarium solani. These fungi cause root-rot and wilt diseases in potato, sugar beet and tomato.[6]

Spectral properties

For UV spectra an intense band is observed at 235 nm and very broad band in region 290-335 nm. Compared to UV, IR spectra shows less characteristics: 1090–1110 cm−1 region shows a band but don’t indicate a particular vibration. NMR spectroscopy is the best way to observe the structure of furoquinoline alkaloids. C-2 proton gives response in 7.50-7.60 ppm region and C-3 proton gives response in 6.90-7.10 ppm region. Aromatic methoxy group give responses in 4.0-4.2 ppm region but 4-methoxy group give responses in ~4.40 ppm region.[1]

References
  1. Cordell, Geoffrey A. (1981). Introduction to Alkaloids: A Biogenetic Approach. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 243–252. ISBN 0-471-03478-9.
  2. Mizuta, M; Kanamori, H (1985). "Mutagenic activities of dictamnine and gamma-fagarine from dictamni radicis cortex (Rutaceae)". Mutation Research. 144 (4): 221–5. doi:10.1016/0165-7992(85)90054-5. PMID 4069140.
  3. Schimmer, O; Kühne, I (1991). "Furoquinoline alkaloids as photosensitizers in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii". Mutation Research. 249 (1): 105–10. doi:10.1016/0027-5107(91)90136-c. PMID 2067526.
  4. Schempp, CM; Sonntag, M; Schöpf, E; Simon, JC (1996). "Dermatitis bullosa striata pratensis caused by Dictamnus albus L. (burning bush)". Der Hautarzt; Zeitschrift für Dermatologie, Venerologie, und verwandte Gebiete. 47 (9): 708–10. doi:10.1007/s001050050494. PMID 8999028.
  5. Yang, Zhong-duo; Zhang, Dong-bo; Ren, Jin; Yang, Ming-jun (2011). "Skimmianine, a furoquinoline alkaloid from Zanthoxylum nitidum as a potential acetylcholinesterase inhibitor". Medicinal Chemistry Research. 21 (6): 722–725. doi:10.1007/s00044-011-9581-9.
  6. Emam, A; Eweis, M; Elbadry, M (2010). "A new furoquinoline alkaloid with antifungal activity from the leaves of Ruta chalepensis L". Drug Discoveries & Therapeutics. 4 (6): 399–404. PMID 22491304.
  7. Cardoso-Lopes, Elaine Monteiro; Maier, James Andreas; Silva, Marcelo Rogério da; Regasini, Luis Octávio; Simote, Simone Yasue; Lopes, Norberto Peporine; Pirani, José Rubens; Bolzani, Vanderlan da Silva; Young, Maria Cláudia Marx (2010). "Alkaloids from Stems of Esenbeckia leiocarpa Engl. (Rutaceae) as Potential Treatment for Alzheimer Disease". Molecules. 15 (12): 9205–13. doi:10.3390/molecules15129205. PMC 6259197. PMID 21160449.
  8. Wansi, Jean Duplex; Hussain, Hidayat; Tcho, Alain Tadjong; Kouam, Simeon F.; Specht, Sabine; Sarite, Salem Ramadan; Hoerauf, Achim; Krohn, Karsten (2009). "Antiplasmodial activities of furoquinoline alkaloids from Teclea afzelii". Phytotherapy Research. 24 (5): 775–7. doi:10.1002/ptr.2894. PMID 19496062.
  9. Basco, LK; Mitaku, S; Skaltsounis, AL; Ravelomanantsoa, N; Tillequin, F; Koch, M; Le Bras, J (1994). "In vitro activities of furoquinoline and acridone alkaloids against Plasmodium falciparum". Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 38 (5): 1169–71. doi:10.1128/aac.38.5.1169. PMC 188171. PMID 8067758.
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