title: Discovery of structurally diverse and bioactive compounds from plant resources in China.
abstract: This review describes the major discoveries of structurally diverse and/or biologically significant compounds from plant resources in China, mainly from the traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs) since the establishment of our research group in 1999. In the past decade, a large array of biologically significant and novel structures has been identified from plant resources (or TCM) in our laboratory. The structural modification of several biologically important compounds led to more than 400 derivatives, some of which exhibited significantly improved activities and provided opportunities to elucidate the structure-activity relationship of the related compound class. These findings are important for drug discovery and help us understand the biological basis for the traditional applications of these plants in TCM.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
authors.forename: Sheng-Ping
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Jian-Min
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Yue
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D015195:Drug Design; D055808:Drug Discovery / Q000379:methods; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D010946:Plants, Medicinal / Q000737:chemistry*; D012106:Research; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal