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. 2014 May 30;9(5):e98286. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0098286

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
1

logD values have been calculated using ChemAxon Marvin 6.0 software.

2

Valueas are -logIC50±s.d., n = 2.

NI no inhibition.

Data are mean ± SEM from three independent experiments.