Linckosides A and B, two new neuritogenic steroid glycosides from the Okinawan starfish Linckia laevigata

Bioorg Med Chem. 2002 Jun;10(6):1961-6. doi: 10.1016/s0968-0896(02)00006-8.

Abstract

Two new steroid glycosides, named linckosides A and B, were isolated from the Okinawan starfish Linckia laevigata, and their stereostructures were elucidated by spectroscopic methods and chemical derivatization. Each of them possesses two monosaccharide units at C-3 and C-29 of a polyhydroxylated steroid aglycon. These steroid glycosides showed not only notable neuritogenic activity against PC12 cells but also significant synergistic effects on the NGF-induced neuronal differentiation of PC12 cells. Linckoside B showed higher activities than those of linckoside A, though the structural difference is only the kind of a sugar.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Cell Differentiation / drug effects
  • Drug Synergism
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  • Molecular Conformation
  • Molecular Structure
  • Neurons / cytology
  • Neurons / drug effects
  • PC12 Cells
  • Rats
  • Saponins / chemistry
  • Saponins / isolation & purification*
  • Saponins / pharmacology*
  • Starfish / chemistry*

Substances

  • Saponins
  • linckoside A
  • linckoside B