A potent alpha-glucosidase inhibitor from Myristica cinnamomea King

Abstract A dimeric acylphenol and a potent α-glucosidase inhibitor, giganteone D (IC 50 5.05 μM), was isolated and characterized from the bark of Myristica cinnamomea King. The bark also yielded an acylphenol with an unprecedented skeleton for which the name cinnamomeone A (IC 50 358.80 μM) was proposed. Their structures were established by means of NMR and MS spectrometric analyses. The Lineweaver–Burk plot of giganteone D indicated that it was a mixed-type inhibitor. This is the first report on the α-glucosidase inhibiting potential of acylphenols.