A new sesquiterpene from hairy root culture of Artemisia annua

• Dan Dan Zhai ^a, ,
• Hui Zi Jin ^b, ,
• Jian Jiang Zhong ^a,c,

• a State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, School of Biotechnology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China;

• b School of Pharmacy, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200240, China;

• c Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200240, China

• Received Date: 25 August 2009
  
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  Financial support from the Shanghai Leading Academic Discipline Project (No. B203 and B505) is gratefully acknowledged. Dr. Kanyaratt Supaibulwatana of Department of Biotechnology, Mahidol University, Thailand, kindly provided us with the hairy root culture. We also thank Prof. Weimin Zhao in the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica for his help with the structure analysis.