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Phytochemistry, Pharmacology, and Applications of Phytoecdysteroids
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Figure 5.1: The multiplicity of C27-phytoecdysteroids inside the same struc­tural entity.
Source: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226759652_Phytoecdyster­oids_Diversity_Biosynthesis_and_Distribution.
Wang et al. (2003) separated 5 novel phytoecdysteroid glycosides from an entire plant Froelichia oridana. They were then tested against the human deoxyribonucleic acid topoisomerase but did not display the inhibitory activity. Kumpun et al. (2007) currently studied their existence in Chenopodium quinoa, an antique Andean crop having a high value of nutrition. In addition to large amounts of 20-hydroxyecdysone, lower amounts of 24-epi-makisterone A, makisterone A, polypodine B, and 24(28)-dehydromakisterone were also found. They also recognized 3 novel natural compounds, more predominantly 25,27-dehydroinokosterone, 5b-hydroxy-24(28)dehydromakisterone A, and 24,25-dehydroinokosterone. Ecdysteroids were focused on the ber of Chenopodium quinoa (Brandt, 2003; Destrez et al., 2008). Tan et al. (2011) recognized the less usual phytoecdysteroid having the skeleton of 5a-cholestane in Cyanotis
arachnoidea. Novel phytoecdysteroids were found in the Achyranthes bidentata roots. These steroids comprise the furan ring on the acetonide moiety
and are labeled niuxixinsterone A, B, and C. Brainesterosides A to E were separated as the phytoecdysteroid glycosides from rhizomes of the Brainea
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insignis, as well as 3 known phytoecdysteroids (20-hydroxyecdysone, ponasteroside A, and ponasterone A). In Serrulata wole, an extensive variety of structurally diverse ecdysteroids were discovered: compounds having an additional double-bound at the position 20(22) (20,22-didehydrotaxisterone and 1-hydroxy-20,21-didehydrotaxisterone), with the furan ring in a side chain (serfurosterone A and B) or with the intramolecular ether function in a side chain (shidasterone derivatives). In a Serrulata wolfi, Vanyolos et al. (2012) recognized still novel ecdysteroids having the group of a-hydroxyl, structures that are comparatively infrequently seen among the category of ecdysteroids (3-epi-22-deoxy-20-hydroxyecdysone and 3-epi-shidasterone), along with ponasterone-22-apioside.
All of the investigations validate the phytoecdysteroids’ position as vital secondary metabolites in the plants. The same Hungarian group of researchers discovered three novel ecdysones in the Polypodium vulgare: 20-deoxyshidasterone, polypodine B 2-b-D-glucoside, and 5-hydroxyecdysone. Phytoecdysteroids possess common structural features like C24–29C atoms, various hydroxyl substituents, the D
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-6-keto grouping in a B ring, the cis junction of A/B rings, and the side chain normally containing the (R)-C22-OH group. In most cases, phytoecdysteroids are separated in a free state, even though several derivatives like esters, glycosides, and ethers have been separated as well.
Most usually, 1–3 major ecdysteroids will signify about 95% of the entire ecdysteroid in 1 plant species. As exhibited in tables, the secondary ecdysteroids form the combination of ecdysteroid structural analogs. Instances of C27-phytoecdysteroids with the other functional groups (Figures 5.2–5.9) (Albanese et al., 2000; Lafont and Dinan, 2003).
Figure 5.2: Structure of Ajugasterone D.
Source: https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007% 2F978-3-642-22144-6_173.
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Figure 5.3: Structure of Vitexirone.
Source: https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Vitexirone.
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Figure 5.4: The structural formula of the 26-OH-polypodine.
Source: https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007% 2F978-3-642-22144-6_173.
Figure 5.5: The structural formula of the 22-deoxy-20,26-diOH-ecdysone.
Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/
B9780125644853500142.
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Figure 5.6: Structure of Inokosterone.
Source: https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/5458789.
Natural Compounds: An Introduction
Figure 5.7: Structural formulas of (a) Calonysterone; (b) Calonysterone; (c) Calonysterone; and (d) Pinnatasterone 24-(pyrrol-2-carboxylate).
Source: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1026662505403.
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Figure 5.8: Structural formulas of (a) Podecdysone C; (b) Polypodosapo­nin; (c) Stachysterone D; (d) Ecdysterone 2,3-acetonide; and (e) Ecdysterone 20,22-acetonide.
Source: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1026662505403.
Figure 5.9: Instances of C-29 phytoecdysteroids: (a) Makisterone C; and (b) Makisterone D.
Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/
B9780444634733000058.
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Toth and Bathori (2008) dened a comparatively simple separation process for phytoecdysteroids from the Silene viridiora. By the purication process in 4 steps, the phytoecdysteroids were made accessible in sufcient
amounts (Figure 5.10).
Figure 5.10: Ecdysterone biosynthesis in Ajuga reptans and polypodium vul­gare: Recommended early steps.
Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7470069/.
5.4. BIOSYNTHESES OF PHYTOECDYSTEROIDS
Currently, the path for biosynthesis in the plants might vary from that in the animals. A large number of the ecdysteroids discovered in plants makes it improbable that the single pathway is dealt with. In a Polypodium vulgare, the cholesterol is transformed to a-ecdysone, 5-b-OH-ecdysterone, and ecdysterone. It is accepted that the A/B-cis junction and the D keto grouping ascend at the 1
st
stages of biosynthesis of the cholesterol, hydroxylation in position 14-a happening next. It is recommended that in some ecdysteroids having trans-A/B junctions, the isomerization of chiral center 5 has taken place. The order of consequent introduction of the hydroxyl groups into the side chain and steroidal moiety, along with the side-chain alkylation, does not appear to be determined strictly and varied from one family of a plant to another.
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The Ajuga genus is exceptional for the great diversity of phytoecdysteroids,
having a wide spectrum of pharmacological and biological actions. They
gather in several plant organs like stems, owers, leaves, fruits, and roots,
usually existent in smaller quantities of order 0.01 to 0.1% of the dry weight of the plant. The key phytoecdysteroid is 20-hydroxyecdysone and is the energetic molting hormone of insects (Figure 5.11).
Figure 5.11: Biosynthesis of spinach ecdysteroids: The endogenously biosyn­thesized ecdysone-3-phosphate and ecdysone are transformed to 20-hydroxy­ecdysone.
Source: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02537830.
In this biosynthetic approach, both lathosterol and cholesterol are involved and yield the ecdysterone moiety through 7-dehydro-cholesterol. The midway 5,6-epoxide would be the plausible description for the creation of the 6-keto group. Current evidence recommends that the conjugates of
phosphate are signicant in the targeting or processing of ecdysteroids and
sterols in the biosynthesis in spinach. In plants, phosphorylated ecdysteroids seem to be indulged in the biosynthetic path. In animals, the ecdysteroids are phosphorylated for elimination for parent ecdysteroids from the gut of an animal (Marion-Poll and Descoins, 2002).
Devarenne et al. (1995) nurtured radiolabeled [22,23­having Zea mays leaves. Post-incubation, among 57 and 75%, of the radio­labeled material recuperated was existent as unmetabolized [
3
H]ecdysone
3
H]ecdysone.
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The lasting radioactivity was recuperated as [3H]ecdysone phosphate,
3
polyphosphorylated ecdysone, and [
H]ecdysone diphosphate. The same authors discovered lathosterol and not cholesterol as a favored forerunner to ecdysteroids in spinach and theorized it is a similar circumstance in Zea mays, since it took substantially more time to transform cholesterol into the ecdysteroids. Ecdysteroid polyphosphates normally have a downregulatory effect on the biosynthesis of the ecdysteroids. This might lead to the
conscation of lathosterol into the steryl ester pool and consequently the slow
discharge of the lathosteryl ester for extra biosynthesis of the ecdysteroid polyphosphates (Figures 5.12 and 5.13).
Figure 5.12: Detoxication mechanisms for the phytoecdysteroids in insects.
Source: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226759652_Phytoecdyster­oids_Diversity_Biosynthesis_and_Distribution.
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Figure 5.13: Main metabolic paths of 20-hydroxyecdysone in the mice.
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5.5. FUNCTIONS OF PHYTOECDYSTEROIDS
Various recommendations have normally been put forward, but the theory that phytoecdysteroids behave as anti-feeding agents and potent deterrents against insects received possibly the greatest support.
As minor plant metabolites, phytoecdysteroids motivate protein synthesis in the plants, possibly behave as the plant growth regulators, and activate cell mitosis. Ecdysteroids impact signal transduction paths, correspondingly to anabolic steroids. They should not bind to the cytosolic steroid receptors but perform by membrane-bound receptors.
They also defend plants against the phytophagous insects by endocrine disruption or feeding deterrence upon ingestion, which causes death. As an example, an Indian snack moth Plodia interpunctella can generally be taken. The concentration of 200 parts per million of phytoecdysteroids in the diet revealed signs of poisonousness as a reduction in larval weight, an upsurge in mortality, and induction of cannibalism, along with the disruption of development. Negligible structural differences considerably affected the
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poisonousness of phytoecdysteroids, makisterone A. Silkworm or Bombyx mori is an instance in which the phytoecdysteroids have harmful effects such as hindrance of growth and death without or with promoted prothetely and molting. Weirdly enough, when the silkworms are open to low amounts
of 20-hydroxyecdysone at specic times during the development, enhanced
synchrony of cocoon creation and higher silk produce could be observed. Also, in the honeybees’ fertility of wax is enhanced by a similar effect. Still,
the method of action is unidentied. It is postulated that the low levels of
phytoecdysteroids might improve the confrontation against stress (Rharrabe et al., 2007).
Conversely, some species of insect remain undisturbed by phytoecdysteroids existent in the food even at the concentrations of around 400 parts per million and more (e.g., the tobacco budworm or Heliothis
virescens, the cotton bollworm or Heliothis armigera, the migratory locust or Locusta migratoria, the tobacco hornworm or Manduca sexta, the Egyptian/
African cotton leafworm or Spodoptera littoralis, a moth known as bright­line brown-eye or Lacanobia oleracea, a moth known as death’s-head hawk or Acherontia atropos). The following inactivation and detoxication
mechanisms, correspondingly in mice and insects, have been dened to
detoxify phytoecdysteroids (Marion-Poll et al., 2004):
• Conjugation to the fatty acids, thus hindering the C-22 hydroxyl group. The mechanism depends on the quantity of the fatty acids in the environment. In the circumstance of low concentration, the insects will be fatigued earlier by spending their energetic capacity.
• Instead of the fatty acids, phosphorylation (C-2 or C-22), glycosidation (C-22, C-25), 3-oxo/3-epi derivatization, and acetylation (C-3) can take place.
• The cleavage of the side-chain is done amongst C-20 and C-22.
• Evacuating unmetabolized hydroxyecdysone is seen.
The phytophagous conduct of insects plays a vital role. The insect’s lenient to phytoecdysteroids will not vary their phagous behavior. The polyphagous insects can avert plants comprising higher levels of the phytoecdysteroids, while insect monophagous for the ecdysteroid-comprising plants will be quite sensitive. The insects can guard themselves by emerging taste receptors, which simplify averting ecdysteroid-comprising plants in the diet (Dinan, 1998; Soriano et al., 2004).