title: Polyhydroxylated sterols from the octocoral Dendronephthya gigantea.
abstract: Two new polyhydroxylated sterols, dendronesterols A (1) and B (2), have been isolated from the octocoral Dendronephthya gigantea. The structures of 1 and 2 were proposed on the basis of extensive NMR experiments. Compound 2 was found to be weakly cytotoxic toward L1210 cells.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima Bunri University, Tokushima 770-8514, Japan. yosikawa@ph.bunri-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yoshikawa
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kanekuni
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hanahusa
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Arihara
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ohta
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000494:pharmacology; D003063:Cnidaria / Q000737:chemistry*; D004354:Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor; D007939:Leukemia L1210 / Q000188:drug therapy; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D013261:Sterols / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000494:pharmacology; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D013261:Sterols; C411205:dendronesterol A; C411204:dendronesterol B