Table 1. Inhibitor potency in hABHD12-HEK293 lysates for commercially available triterpenes (1–11) and triterpenoids (12–15) as well as their calculated lipophilicity values (logD).
Compound | General name | Remaining activity at 10 µM % ± s.e.m. | -logIC50±s.e.m. [IC50] (max inhibition) | logD1 (pH 7.4) |
1 | Betulinic acid | 5.60±0.182 [2.5 µM] | 4.04 | |
2 | Betulin | ∼75 | 6.17 | |
3 | Lupeol | NI | 7.45 | |
4 | Ursolic acid | ∼30 | 5.74±0.142 [1.8 µM] | 3.98 |
5 | Asiatic acid | NI | 1.62 | |
6 | α-Amyrin | NI | 7.39 | |
7 | Oleanolic acid | ∼20 | 5.80±0.072 [1.6 µM] | 3.99 |
8 | Maslinic acid | 5.90±0.04 [1.3 µM] (89%) | 2.92 | |
9 | Hederagenin | 78±3.0 | 2.71 | |
10 | β-Amyrin | NI | 7.40 | |
11 | α-Boswellic acid | NI | 3.84 | |
12 | CDDO | NI | 3.68 | |
13 | CDDO methyl ester | NI | 6.55 | |
14 | Celastrol | NI | 2.75 | |
15 | Pristimerin | NI | 5.47 |
logD values have been calculated using ChemAxon Marvin 6.0 software.
Valueas are -logIC50±s.d., n = 2.
NI no inhibition.
Data are mean ± SEM from three independent experiments.