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This review describes the major discoveries of structurally diverse and/or biologically significant compounds from plant resources in China, mainly from the traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs) since the establishment of our research group in 1999. In the past decade, a large array of biologically significant and novel structures has been identified from plant resources (or TCM) in our laboratory. The structural modification of several biologically important compounds led to more than 400 derivatives, some of which exhibited significantly improved activities and provided opportunities to elucidate the structure-activity relationship of the related compound class. These findings are important for drug discovery and help us understand the biological basis for the traditional applications of these plants in TCM.
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This work was supported by the National Science & Technology Major Project “Key New Drug Creation and Manufacturing Program” (Grant No 2011ZX09307-002-03), the foundation of the Ministry of Science and Technology (2012CB721105) of China, and the National Natural Science Foundation (Grant No 30025044, 30630072, and 21072203) of China.
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Yang, Sp., Yue, Jm. Discovery of structurally diverse and bioactive compounds from plant resources in China. Acta Pharmacol Sin 33, 1147–1158 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/aps.2012.105
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