Product name: Gentiomicrocide
Alias: 5-Ethenyl-6-( β- D- glucopyranosyloxy)-5,6- dihydro- 1H,3H – pyrano[3,4-C]pyran-1-one
CAS:20831-76-9
Specification: 3% 5% 8%
Molecular formula: C16H20O9
Molecular weight: 356
Molecular structure: C16H20O9
Gentiana rigescens (G. rigescens) grows in the southwest region of China. The roots of this Chinese herb medicine have been used to treat inflammation, hepatitis, and functional dyspepsia [5]. Sheng Nong’s Herbal Classic, a classic book of traditional Chinese medicine on Materia Medica, described that G. rigescens has effects on cognition improvement and antiaging. In our previous study, 11 novel neuritogenic benzoate-type molecules (named gentisides A–K) were isolated from G. rigescens [6, 7]. The mixture of gentisides (n-GS) was confirmed to have alleviation effects on the impaired memory of scopolamine-induced mouse model by inhibiting acetylcholinesterase activities and antioxidative stress and regulating the insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor/extracellular signal-regulated kinase (IGF-1R/ERK) signal pathway [8]. These results possibly proved the cognition-improving effect of G. rigescens on the molecular basis, which was mentioned in Sheng Nong’s Herbal Classic.
In the present study, we investigated the antiaging molecular base of G. rigescens. Budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a common aging model that has replicative and chronological lifespans. The K6001 strain, a yeast mutant strain derived from W303, has a characteristic that only mother cells can produce daughter cells and daughter cells do not continue to mitosis in glucose medium [2, 9]. The use of K6001 as a model to study replicative lifespan possesses many merits, such as low cost, short generation time, and easy operation. Therefore, the replicative lifespan assay of K6001 was utilised as a bioassay system to screen antiaging substances from food extracts and traditional Chinese medicines.
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