Research Article

The Exploration of Novel Pharmacophore Characteristics and Multidirectional Elucidation of Structure-Activity Relationship and Mechanism of Sesquiterpene Pyridine Alkaloids from Tripterygium Based on Computational Approaches

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Structures of sesquiterpene pyridine alkaloids from Tripterygium: (a) 55 sesquiterpene pyridine alkaloids of which pyridine ring 2′, 3′ position or 3′, 4′ position are connected to macrocyclic; (b) dihydro-β-agarofuran sesquiterpenoid moiety; (c) 2-(carboxyalkyl) nicotinic acid moiety; (d) macrocyclic dilactone skeleton from Tripterygium.
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