A group of novel nitric oxide (NO) donating chalcone derivatives was prepared by binding various amino chalcones with different NO donating moieties including; nitrate ester, oximes and furoxans. Most of the prepared compounds showed significant anti-inflammatory activity using carrageenan-induced rat paw edema method compared with indomethacin. The prepared compounds exhibited more protection ...

The flavonoids are phenylpropanoid-derived metabolites that are ubiquitous in plants, playing many roles in growth and development. Recently, we observed that fruit rinds of yellow casaba muskmelons (Cucumis melo 'Inodorous Group') accumulate naringenin chalcone, a yellow flavonoid pigment. With RNA-sequencing analysis of bulked segregants representing the tails of a population segregating for ...

Background The flavonoids, naringenin-chalcone and narigenin, are intermediates in phenylpropanoid metabolism in plants, occupying the central position as primary intermediates in flavonoid biosynthesis and are synthesized by chalcone synthase (CHS) and chalcone isomerase (CHI) respectively.[1] It has been reported that supplementation of narigenin-chalcone and narigenin can inhibit the activit...

The anticancer effects of trans-1,3-diphenyl-2,3-epoxypropan-1-one (DPEP), a chalcone derivative, were investigated in human leukemia HL-60 cells. Treatment of HL-60 cells with various concentration of DPEP resulted in a sequence of events characteristic of apoptosis, including loss of cell viability, morphological changes, and increased sub-G1 DNA content. We demonstrated that DPEP elevates re...

The methyl ether derivatives 2, 4 and 6 of the mulberry Diels-Alder adducts chalcomoracin (1) and mulberrofuran C (3) and kuwanon J (5) respectively have been synthesized by a thermal [4 + 2]-cycloaddition reaction between a chalcone and dehydroprenyl diene. A H-bonded ortho OH substituent on the chalcone was found to be essential for Diels-Alder reactivity. Density functional theory calculatio...

The title chalcone derivative, C(14)H(12)N(2)O, consists of 4-amino-phenyl and pyridine rings bridged by a prop-2-en-1-one unit and exists in a trans configuration with respect to the C=C double bond. The mol-ecule is slightly twisted with a dihedral angle of 29.38 (7)° between the benzene and pyridine rings. The prop-2-en-1-one bridge is nearly planar with an r.m.s. deviation of 0.0384 (1) Å a...

A stilbene synthase gene was cloned from Vitis riparia cv. Gloire de Montpellier after PCR amplification with primers designed to include the start and stop codons of stilbene synthase genes of V. inifera. The exon was very similar to that of other stilbene synthases, particularly those from V. inifera (99% nucleotide identity). An intron was found which interrupted the predicted codon for cyst...

BACKGROUND Chalcones are the biogenetic precursors of all known flavonoids, which play an essential role in various metabolic processes in photosynthesizing organisms. The use of whole cyanobacteria cells in a two-step, light-catalysed regioselective bio-reduction of chalcone, leading to the formation of the corresponding dihydrochalcone, is reported. The prokaryotic microalgae cyanobacteria ar...

The aim of this study was to investigate novel chalcones with potent anti-inflammatory activities in vivo. Chalcone and two chalcone analogues (compound 5 and 9) were evaluated using a caudal fin-wounded transgenic zebrafish line "Tg(mpx:gfp)" to visualize the effect of neutrophil recruitment dynamically. Results showed that treatment with compound 9 not only affected wound-induced neutrophil r...