Abstract:
OA was linked with 1-Deoxynojirimycin (1-DNJ) at its C-28 through acarbon chain by bromine substitution and nitrogen substitution, five novel oleanolic acid derivatives (OADs) of that were designed and synthesized by the active group combination, which were confirmed by
1H NMR,
13C NMR and HRMS determination. The inhibittion activity of these five OADs on
α-glucosidase activity was further evaluated using amicro determination model based on the reaction of
α-glucosidase and PNPG, the structure-activity relationship of these OADs was investigated by molecular docking as well. The results showed that all of the five OADs had higher inhibition activity on
α-glucosidase than OA, and the OADs with a bridge link which consisted of three methylenes between OA and 1-DNJ group (compound 2b) showed the highest inhibition activity, of which the IC
50 was 0.786 mmol/L (IC
50 of OA was 2.387 mmol/L). Enzyme inhibition kinetic analysis suggested that these compounds were mixed-type inhibitor of
α-glucosidase. The results of molecular docking indicated that hydrogen bond and van der Waals force played critical roles in the combination between the inhibitor and
α-glucosidase, the inhibition activities enhanced with the increasing of the number of the hydrogen bonds. Seven hydregon bonds were found in the molecular docking model between the compound 2b and
α-glucosidase. The free energy of the binding between compound 2b and
α-glucosidase was only -17.19 kJ/mol, which was slightly higher than acarbose. Therefore, the synthesized oleanolic acid-1-DNJ derivative (2b) had a good inhibitory activity against
α-glucosidase.