Honatisine, a Novel Diterpenoid Alkaloid, and Six Known Alkaloids from Delphinium honanense and Their Cytotoxic Activity

A novel diterpene alkaloid named honatisine (1) has been isolated from the whole plants of Delphinium honanense, along with six known alkaloids, siwanine E (2), isoatisine (3), atisine (4), delcorinine (5), uraphine (6), and nordhagenine A (7). Their structures were deduced on the basis of their spectral data. All of them were evaluated by a SRB assay for their cytotoxicity, and compound 1 showed a significant cytotoxic activity (IC50=3.16 mu M) against the MCF-7 cell line.