Figure 1. Construction of natural compounds fraction library from Chinese medicinal herbs.
A. Ethanol extracts prepared from 500 Chinese herbs. B. Natural compounds fraction library constructed by preparative HPLC with a linear gradient of 0–90% methanol. Eighty fractions were collected from the ethanol extract of each herb, which line up with hydrophobicity gradient. C. Determination of a randomly selected fraction by analytical HPLC. D. Working library. Each fraction was dissolved in DMSO to make 5 mg/mL working solution. Each 96-well plate contains 80 fractions from one herb.