결명자 추출물을 이용하여 발암성 니트로사민의 직접적인 생성인자인 아질산염 소거작용과 그 소거인자의 분리 및 동정을 시도하였다. 결명자의 메탄올 추출물을 chloroform, ethyl ether, ethyl acetate, 물분획 순으로 순차용매 분리한 결과 ethyl acetate획분이 가장 우수한 것으로 나타났다. Ethyl acetate획분을 silica gel column chromatography하여 얻은 compound A와 B획분 중에서 compound A는 pH 1.2에서 44.5%/200 ${mu}g$의 아질산염 소거능을, compound B는 극히 낮은 아질산염 소거능을 나타내었다. HPLC를 이용하여 compound A획분으로 부터 compound A-1획분을 분리하고 아질산염 소거효과를 ascorbic acid와 비교하였을 때 compound A-1은 ascorbic acid에 비해 월등한 소거효과를 나타내었으며, UV, IR 및 $^1H-NMR$의 결과로부터 그 구조는 $nor-rubrofusarin-6-{eta}-mono-D-glucoside$으로 추정하였다.
The present study was conducted to elucidate nitrite scavenger derived from seeds of Cassia tora L. Methanolic extract of Cassia tora L was refractionated into ethyl ether, chloroform, ethyl acetate and water farction, and nitrite scavenging abilities of these fractions were investigated. Among these fractions, ethyl acetate fraction had the strongest nitrite scavenging ability(97%/2 mg). Therefore, to further investigate nitrite scavenger, ethyl acetate fraction was fractionated by silica gel column chromatography with a chloroform-methanol($10:0{sim}0:10$) and then compound A and B were isolated. Compound A had a stronger nitrite-scavenging effect than compound B. Therefore the further separation of compound A was carried out by HPLC(32% acetonitrile. 1 ml/min) using ${mu}Bondapak$C18 column$(3.9{ imes}300 mm)$ and finally compound A-1 was obtained from compound A. Compound A-1 had by far nitrite-scavenging ability as compared with that of ascorbic acid. Compound A-1 was identified as $nor-rubrofusarin-6-{eta}-mono-D-glucoside$ from the profiles of UV, IR and $^1H-NMR$.
