• Nutrition Research and Practice
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.655-661
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• 2014

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects and associated mechanisms of arctiin, a lignan compound found in burdock, on adipogenesis in 3T3-L1 cells. Also, the effects of arctiin supplementation in obese mice fed a high-fat diet on adiposity were examined. MATERIALS/METHODS: 3T3-L1 cells were treated with arctiin (12.5 to $100{\mu}M$) during differentiation for 8 days. The accumulation of lipid droplets was determined by Oil Red O staining and intracellular triglyceride contents. The expressions of genes related to adipogenesis were measured by real-time RT-PCR and Western blot analyses. For in vivo study, C57BL/6J mice were first fed either a control diet (CON) or high-fat diet (HF) to induce obesity, and then fed CON, HF, or HF with 500 mg/kg BW arctiin (HF + AC) for four weeks. RESULTS: Arctiin treatment to 3T3-L1 pre-adipocytes markedly decreased adipogenesis in a dose-dependent manner. The arctiin treatment significantly decreased the protein levels of the key adipogenic regulators $PPAR{\gamma}$ and $C/EBP{\alpha}$, and also significantly inhibited the expression of SREBP-1c, fatty acid synthase, fatty acid-binding protein and lipoprotein lipase. Also, arctiin greatly increased the phosphorylation of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) and its downstream target phosphorylated-acetyl CoA carboxylase. Furthermore, administration of arctiin significantly decreased the body weight in obese mice fed with the high-fat diet. The epididymal, perirenal or total visceral adipose tissue weights of mice were all significantly lower in the HF + AC than in the HF. Arctiin administration also decreased the sizes of lipid droplets in the epididymal adipose tissue. CONCLUSIONS: Arctiin inhibited adipogenesis in 3T3-L1 adipocytes through the inhibition of $PPAR{\gamma}$ and $C/EBP{\alpha}$ and the activation of AMPK signaling pathways. These findings suggest that arctiin has a potential benefit in preventing obesity.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.462-463
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• 1995

• 생명과학회지
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• 제22권8호
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• pp.1092-1098
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• 2012

본 연구에서는 우방자를 70% 에탄올로 추출하여 얻어진 추출물을 n-hexane, methylene chloride, ethyl acetate로 순차용매 분획하였다. 각 분획물에 대해 activity-guided isolation을 수행하여 활성물질의 분리 정제를 실시하였다. 활성을 나타내는 물질은 silica gel chromatography (230 mesh), sephadex LH 20, recrystallization method를 이용하여 분리하였다. 각 화합물의 화학구조는 NMR 스펙트럼 데이터 해석하였고 arctiin, arctigenin, diarctigenin, matairesinol 으로 동정하였다. 이들을 human dermal fibroblast HS68 세포에 처리하여 얻어진 상등액은 ELISA kit를 활용하여 procollagen type I 생합성과 MMP-1 저해활성을 측정하였다. 측정결과 procollagen type I 생합성과 MMP-1 저해활성 결과 모두 arctiin이 가장 우수한 결과를 보였다. 이와 같은 결과를 통해 우방자에서 분리한 리그난 화합물들을 이용하여 주름개선 소재로 개발할 수 있을 것으로 사료 된다.

• Natural Product Sciences
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.153-160
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• 2022

Neuroinflammation is known to be associated with brain injury in Alzheimer's disease (AD), and the inhibition of microglial activation, a key player in inflammatory response, is considerd as important target for AD. In this study, the ethanol extract of aerial parts of Forsythia velutina Nakai, a Korean native species, significantly inhibited nitric oxide (NO) production in LPS-stimulated BV2 microglial cells. Thus, the active principles in F. velutina aerial parts were isolated based on activity-guided isolation method. As a result, six compounds were isolated and their structures were elucidated based on NMR data and the comparison with the relevant references as arctigenin (1), matairesinol (2), rengyolone (3), ursolic acid (4), secoisolariciresinol (5), and arctiin (6). Among them, four compounds including arctigenin (1), matairesinol (2), secoisolariciresinol (5), and arctiin (6) significantly inhibited NO production in a dose-dependent manner. In particular, matairesinol (2) and secoisolariciresinol (5) reduced 60% of NO production compared to LPS-treated group. This inhibitory effects of matairesinol (2) and secoisolariciresinol (5) were accompanied with the reduced expression levels of iNOS and COX-2. These results suggest that the extract of F. velutina and its active compounds could be beneficial for neuroinflammatory diseases including AD.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.269-273
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• 2005

Five dibenzylbutyrolactones were isolated from a methanol extract of Arctii fructus (Arctium lappa L.) by bioassay-guided isolation, using the interleukin-l $\beta$ converting enzyme (caspase-l, ICE) production inhibitory assay in vitro. These compounds were spectroscopically identified as lappaol E (1), lappaol A (2), matairesinol (3), arctigenin (4), and arctiin (5). Among the compounds tested, arctigenin (4) showed the strongest inhibitory activity for ICE production in IL-$\beta$-induced proliferation of D 1 OS cells. Western blot analysis demonstrated that the arctigenin suppressed the expression of ICE protein in a dose-dependent manner. To estimate the biotransformation of Arctii fructus in vivo by human intestinal bacteria, we carried out an anaerobic incubation of the Arctii fructus extract with a human fecal suspension. From the HPLC analysis of metabolites, Arctiin (IC$_{50}$=74.2$\mu$g/ml), a major component of Arctii fructus, was transformed to aglycone, arctigenin (IC$_{50}$=12.5$\mu$g/ml), by human intestinal bacteria. The ICE production inhibitory activity of Arctii fructus would be much stronger in vivo than in vitro due to the biotransformation by human intestinal bacteria.

• Natural Product Sciences
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.85-88
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• 2005

The methanolic extract from the seeds of Arctium lappa was found to inhibit the LPS-induced nitric oxide (NO) production in murine macrophage RAW264.7 cells. Bioassay-guided fractionation of a methylene chloride soluble fraction led to the isolation of three lignan compounds, arctiin (1), arctigenin (2), and lappaol B (3). Their structures were elucidated by UV, IR, MS, and NMR data, as well as by comparison with those of the literatures. Arctigenin (2) and lappaol B (3) had an iNOS inhibitory activity with $IC_{50}$ values of 12.5 and $25.9\;{\mu}M$, respectively.

• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제46권8호
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• pp.986-996
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• 2017

본 연구에서는 우엉을 이용한 식초의 제조 가능성을 검토하였으며, 반응표면분석법을 통하여 우엉식초의 발효조건에 대한 영향을 모니터링하여 발효조건을 최적화하였다. 그리고 제조된 우엉 발효식초의 기능성 성분과 유효성분을 확인하였다. 식초 제조를 위해 우엉 추출액에 사과 농축액을 15% 첨가하여 알코올 발효시킨 결과, 5일 후 6.4%의 알코올이 생성되었다. 초산 발효조건을 확립하기 위해 중심합성계획법에 따라 발효시간, 발효온도를 독립변수로 하여 실험을 계획하였고, 발효액의 특성을 반응변수로 하여 실험한 후 발효조건을 최적화하였다. 17일간의 초산 발효 후 13개 실험구의 acetic acid 함량은 3.85~4.73%였으며, $R^2$ 값은 0.9850으로 1% 이내 유의수준에서 유의성이 인정되었다. Arctiin 함량의 범위는 0.37~0.50 mg%였으며, $R^2$ 값은 0.8380으로 5% 이내 유의수준에서 유의성이 인정되었다. 각 변수에 대한 회귀식을 도출하여 우엉식초 제조를 위한 최적 발효조건을 superimposing 한 결과 발효시간은 16일, 발효온도는 $30^{\circ}C$로 예측되었다.

• Natural Product Sciences
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.147-159
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• 2011

A high-performance liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization-tandem mass spectrometric method was developed to determine simultaneously eight marker constituents of Forsythiae fructus, and subsequently applied it to classify its two botanical origins. The marker compounds of Forsythia suspensa were phillyrin, pinoresinol, phillygenin, lariciresinol and forsythiaside; those of F.viridissima were arctiin, arctigenin and matairesinol. Separation of the eight analytes was achieved on a phenyl-hexyl column (150${\times}$2.0 mm i.d., 3 ${\mu}M$) using gradient elution with the mobile phase: (A) 10% acetonitrile in 0.5% acetic acid, (B) 40% aqueous acetonitrile. A few fragment ions specific to the types of lignans, among the product ions generated by collisonally induced dissociation (CID) of molecular ion clusters, such as [M-H]$^-$ or [M+OAc]$^-$ were used not only for fingerprinting analysis but for the quantification of each epimer by using multiple-reaction monitoring mode. It was shown good linearity ($r^2{\geq}$ 0.9998) over the wide range of all analytes; intra- and inter-day precisions (RSD, %) were within 9.14% and the accuracy ranged from 84.3 to 115.1%. The analytical results of 40 drug samples, combined with multivariate statistical analyses - principal component analysis (PCA) and hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) - clearly demonstrated the classification of the test samples according to their botanical origins. This method would provide a practical strategy for assessing the authenticity or quality of the herbal drug.