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SML0577

Cucurbitacin E

≥95% (HPLC)

Synonym(s):

α-Elaterin, α-Elaterine

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Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
C32H44O8
CAS Number:
Molecular Weight:
556.69
UNSPSC Code:
12352200
NACRES:
NA.77
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InChI

1S/C32H44O8/c1-17(33)40-27(2,3)13-12-23(36)32(9,39)25-21(35)15-29(6)22-11-10-18-19(14-20(34)26(38)28(18,4)5)31(22,8)24(37)16-30(25,29)7/h10,12-14,19,21-22,25,34-35,39H,11,15-16H2,1-9H3/b13-12+/t19-,21-,22+,25+,29+,30-,31+,32+/m1/s1

InChI key

NDYMQXYDSVBNLL-MUYMLXPFSA-N

assay

≥95% (HPLC)

form

powder

optical activity

[α]/D -60 to -75°, c = 0.7 (CDCl3)

color

white to beige

solubility

DMSO: 15 mg/mL, clear

storage temp.

−20°C

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Application

Cucurbitacin E has been used as a cofilin inhibitor. It is also used as a F-actin stabilizer to prevent membrane-associated periodic skeleton (MPS) loss and protect from axonal fragmentation.

Biochem/physiol Actions

Cucurbitacin E is a potent inhibitor of actin depolymerization.
Cucurbitacin E is a potent inhibitor of actin depolymerization. Cucurbitacin E is more active than jasplakinolide, and has a different mechanism of action, binding to a different site. Cucurbitacin E binds specifically to filamentous actin (F-actin) forming a covalent bond at residue Cys257, but not to monomeric actin (G-actin), stabilizing F-actin, without affecting actin polymerization or nucleation.

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Hazard Classifications

Acute Tox. 4 Oral

Storage Class

11 - Combustible Solids

wgk

WGK 3

flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable

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Yanmin Dong et al.
Carcinogenesis, 31(12), 2097-2104 (2010-08-25)
Cucurbitacin E (CuE, α-elaterin), a tetracyclic triterpenes compound from folk traditional Chinese medicine plants, has been shown to inhibit cancer cell growth, inflammatory response and bilirubin-albumin binding. However, the effects of CuE on tumor angiogenesis and its potential molecular mechanism
Jing Qiao et al.
Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.], 62(5), 461-469 (2013-01-31)
Cucurbitacin E (CuE), a triterpenoid compound isolated from Cucurbitaceae plants, possesses a wide range of biological activities including anti-inflammatory properties. The present study aimed to investigate the anti-inflammatory effect of CuE and the underlying mechanism of action. The anti-inflammatory effect
Yasuyuki Sadzuka et al.
International journal of pharmaceutics, 383(1-2), 186-191 (2009-09-08)
Cucurbitacin E increases the doxorubicin (DOX) level in M5076 ovarian sarcoma via suppressed DOX efflux in vitro. An increase in DOX induced antitumor activity by cucurbitacin E in vivo has been reported previously. This paper attempts to clarify the mechanism
Manali Dimri et al.
Development (Cambridge, England), 144(14), 2595-2605 (2017-07-20)
The intrahepatic biliary network is a highly branched three-dimensional network lined by biliary epithelial cells, but how its branching patterns are precisely established is not clear. We designed a new computer-based algorithm that quantitatively computes the structural differences of the
Tehila Tannin-Spitz et al.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications, 364(1), 181-186 (2007-10-19)
The cucurbitacins are of great interest because of the wide range of biological activities they exhibit in plants and animals. We studied the antioxidant properties of cucurbitacin B + E glucosides (cucurbitacin glucoside combination, CGC) and their direct free-radical scavenging

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