Four pyranocoumarins: dipetaline, alloxanthoxyletin, xanthoxyletin, and xanthyletin, and two lignans: sesamin and asarinin were isolated from the northern prickly ash, Zanthoxylum americanum. To varying degrees, all six compounds inhibited the incorporation of tritiated thymidine into human leukemia (HL 60) cells and the inhibitory effect was dependent on the structures of the isolated compounds.
LC-ESI-MS method was used to analyze the formed di-and tri-peptide hi the reaction system of N-(O,O-diisopropyl)phosphoryl aspartic acid and adenosine.Ouster ions of the peptides were given hi the ESI-MS.The structures of these small peptides were confirmed by LC-MS-MS analysis.Compared with the traditional HPLC-UV detection,this method showed good sensitivity and selectivity for peptide in the presence of compounds with strong UV absorption,such as nucle-oside and nucleotide.
