Saponins, Esculeosides B-1 and B-2, in Tomato Juice and Sapogenol, Esculeogenin B₁

Esculeogenin A, a new tomato sapogenol, ameliorates hyperlipidemia and atherosclerosis in ApoE-deficient mice by inhibiting ACAT.

OBJECTIVE We recently identified esculeoside A, a new spirosolane-type glycoside, with a content in tomatoes that is 4-fold higher than that of lycopene. In the present study, we examined the effects of esculeoside A and esculeogenin A, a new aglycon of esculeoside A, on foam cell formation in vitro and atherogenesis in apoE-deficient mice. METHODS AND RESULTS Esculeogenin A significantly inh...

Conversion of esculeoside A into esculeogenin B.

Conversion of the spirosolane-type glycoside, esculeoside A, a major component contained in the ripe tomato Lycopersicon esculentum fruits, into a solanocapsine-type sapogenol, esculeogenin B-2, (5alpha,22S,23R,25S)-22,26-epimino-16beta,23-epoxy-3beta,23,27-trihydroxycholestane, and esculeogenin B-1, (5alpha,22R,23S,25S)-22,26-epimino-16beta,23-epoxy-3beta,23,27-trihydroxycholestane, which are ...

SYNTHESIS OF SOME IMIDAZO [ I , 2-b] [l , 2,4] TRIAZINE AND N-ALKYLATED IMIDAZO [l , 2-b] [1 , 2,4]-TRIAZINES

A number of 3-amino-1, 2, 4-triazin-5 (2H)- ones(1) were synthesized and condensed with a-haloketones to give 2,6-disubstituted imidazo [1, 2-b] [1, 2, 4]-triazin-3 (4H)-ones (2). These compounds were reacted further with a - haloketones to yield N-alkylated products (3).

0 - - 1 - - 1 - - 2 - - 2 - a B a B a B - 1 - - 2 - - 2 - - 2 -

Properties of L=1 B(1) and B(2)* mesons.

This Letter presents the first strong evidence for the resolution of the excited B mesons B(1) and B(2)* as two separate states in fully reconstructed decays to B(+)(*)pi(-). The mass of B(1) is measured to be 5720.6+/-2.4+/-1.4 MeV/c(2) and the mass difference DeltaM between B(2)* and B(1) is 26.2+/-3.1+/-0.9 MeV/c;{2}, giving the mass of the B(2)* as 5746.8+/-2.4+/-1.7 MeV/c(2). The productio...