Biosynthesis, total synthesis, structural modifications, bioactivity, and mechanism of action of the quinonemethide triterpenoid celastrol

Y Lu, Y Liu, J Zhou, D Li, W Gao - Medicinal research reviews, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Celastrol, a quinonemethide triterpenoid, was extracted from Tripterygium wilfordii Hook. F.
in 1936 for the first time. Almost 70 years later, it is considered one of the molecules most …

Celastrol: progresses in structure-modifications, structure-activity relationships, pharmacology and toxicology

W Hou, B Liu, H Xu - European journal of medicinal chemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
Celastrol, a principal bioactive ingredient of Tripterygium wilfordii Hook F, has gained
extensive exploration due to its unique structure features and multiple promising biological …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular modulators of celastrol as the keystones for its diverse pharmacological activities

SW Ng, Y Chan, DK Chellappan… - Biomedicine & …, 2019 - Elsevier
In the recent years, much attention has been focused on identifying bioactive compounds
from medicinal plants that could be employed in therapeutics, which is attributed to their …

Total synthesis of celastrol, development of a platform to access celastroid natural products

AM Camelio, TC Johnson, D Siegel - Journal of the American …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Celastroid natural products, triterpenes, have been and continue to be investigated in
clinical trials. Celastrol, and for that matter any member of the celastroid family, was …

[HTML][HTML] Potential medicinal value of celastrol and its synthesized analogues for central nervous system diseases

X Bai, RJ Fu, S Zhang, SJ Yue, YY Chen, DQ Xu… - Biomedicine & …, 2021 - Elsevier
The central nervous system (CNS) is a vital part of the human nervous system, and the
incidence of CNS disease is increasing year by year, which has become a major public …

Celastrol as a pentacyclic triterpenoid with chemopreventive properties

P Yadav, V Jaswal, A Sharma, D Kashyap… - Pharmaceutical …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Celastrol is a highly investigated anticancer moiety. It is a pentacyclic triterpenoid, isolated
several decades ago with promising role in chemoprevention. Celastrol has been found to …

Nanotechnology-based celastrol formulations and their therapeutic applications

PR Wagh, P Desai, S Prabhu, J Wang - Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Celastrol (also called tripterine) is a quinone methide triterpene isolated from the root extract
of Tripterygium wilfordii (thunder god vine in traditional Chinese medicine). Over the past …

Celastrol: a review of useful strategies overcoming its limitation in anticancer application

J Shi, J Li, Z Xu, L Chen, R Luo, C Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Celastrol, a natural bioactive ingredient derived from Tripterygium wilfordii Hook F, exhibits
significant broad-spectrum anticancer activities for the treatment of a variety of cancers …

[HTML][HTML] Celastrol as an emerging anticancer agent: Current status, challenges and therapeutic strategies

C Wang, S Dai, X Zhao, Y Zhang, L Gong, K Fu… - Biomedicine & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Celastrol is a pentacyclic triterpenoid extracted from the traditional Chinese medicine
Tripterygium wilfordii Hook F., which has multiple pharmacological activities. In particular …

Celastrol binds to its target protein via specific noncovalent interactions and reversible covalent bonds

D Zhang, Z Chen, C Hu, S Yan, Z Li, B Lian… - Chemical …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Celastrol is one of the most studied natural products. Our studies show for the first time that
celastrol can bind to its target protein via specific noncovalent interactions that position …