Title
Alkaloid profile in Pyrolirion albicans Herb. (Amaryllidaceae), a Peruvian endemic species
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
The Amaryllidaceae family is widely distributed in different regions of the neotropics and temperate areas of the world. Species of the subfamily Amaryllidoideae are unique in producing the alkaloid galanthamine, which inhibits the action of acetylcholinesterase and is used for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. In Perú, 15 genera and 68 species belonging to the Amaryllidoideae have been reported in different types of forest, ranging from wet montane to dry, as well as the sandy biomes of the Pacific coastal region, with the greatest diversity in the south. In the tribe Eustephieae, the Andean genus Pyrolirion Herb has eight species, six of which are endemic to Peru. In this work, the leaves and bulbs of Pyrolirion albicans were analyzed for their alkaloid content for the first time, using gas chromatography (GC) coupled to mass spectrometry (MS). The alkaloids determined in the leaves were galanthamine, chlidanthine, tazettine and lycorine and those in the bulbs were galanthamine, N-demethylgalanthamine, vittatine/crinine, montanine, pancracine, sternbergine, lycorine and hippeastrine. Owing to their important bioactive properties, the high quantity of montanine and galanthamine determined in the bulbs is of particular interest.
Start page
76
End page
80
Volume
136
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de las plantas, Botánica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85083548553
Source
South African Journal of Botany
ISSN of the container
02546299
Sponsor(s)
The authors thank Rosa A. Calderón (Herbarium Moqueguensis) for her collaboration in the field work. The authors also acknowledge the financial to the Universidad Nacional de Moquegua the project resolution N° 0369-1073, 2019-UNAM, and support of the Program CYTED (416RT0511). L.T.-C. and J.B. belong to the research group 2017SGR604 and are grateful for the services provided by the SCT of the UB.
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