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Bullatacin, bullatacinone, and squamone, a new bioactive acetogenin, from the bark of Annona squamosa.

Activity-directed fractionation of the stem bark of Annona squamosa, monitoring with brine shrimp lethality, led to the isolation of the highly bioactive acetogenins bullatacin [1] and bullatacinone [2], thus demonstrating a new abundant plant source for these potent compounds. A new keto-monotetrahydrofuran acetogenin with a ketolactone terminus, as first seen in bullatacinone [2], was also isolated, characterized by spectral analyses, and named squamone [3]. The cytotoxicities of 3 were increased significantly by reduction of the two keto groups to hydroxyls, and the tetrahydrosquamone [7] and bullatacinone [2] both showed selective cytotoxicities to MCF-7 human breast carcinoma. Liriodenine and (-)-kaur-16-en-19-oic acid were also isolated.[1]

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  1. Bullatacin, bullatacinone, and squamone, a new bioactive acetogenin, from the bark of Annona squamosa. Li, X.H., Hui, Y.H., Rupprecht, J.K., Liu, Y.M., Wood, K.V., Smith, D.L., Chang, C.J., McLaughlin, J.L. J. Nat. Prod. (1990) [Pubmed]
 
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