Abstract
α-Glucosidase plays an important role in catalyzing the hydrolytic cleavage of disaccharides into monosaccharides. In this study, a phytochemical investigation of the potential α-glucosidase inhibitory fraction from the aerial parts of Euonymus fortunei led to the isolation and identification of two new tetracyclic triterpenoids, fortunenones A and B (1–2), together with 11 known triterpenoids (3–13). Fortunenones A and B are rare C32 triterpenoids possessing a 24,24-dimethyl group. The partial isolated compounds were evaluated their effects on α-glucosidase, of which echinochlorin D (5), lupenone (7), wilforlide B (12), and wilforlide A (13) exhibited remarkable inhibitory effects with the half inhibitory concentration ranged from 207.2 × 10−6 M to 388.3 × 10−6 M compared with the positive control, acarbose. An enzyme kinetics analysis by Lineweaver-Burk plots revealed that the inhibition types of the four active compounds were all mixed inhibition. Molecular docking further revealed that hydrophobic interactions and hydrogen bonds play an important role in the inhibition of α-glucosidase activity. Our results demonstrate the potential of E. fortunei extract and its constituents to inhibit α-glucosidase.
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