The structures of six new lanostane-type triterpene acids isolated from the epidermis of the sclerotia of
Poria cocoswere established to be 15
-hydroxydehydrotumulosic acid (
5), 16
,25-dihydroxydehydroeburicoic acid (
9), 5
,8
-peroxydehydrotumulosic acid (
10), 25-hydroxyporicoic acid H (
11), 16-deoxyporicoic acid B (
12), and poricoic acidCM (
16) on the basis of spectroscopic methods. On evaluation of these six and 11 other known triterpene acids isolatedfrom the sclerotium,
1-
4,
6-
8,
13-
15, and
17, against the Epstein-Barr virus early antigen (EBV-EA) activationinduced by 12-
O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) in Raji cells, all of the compounds except for
1,
3,
4, and
8exhibited inhibitory effects with IC
50 values of 195-340 mol ratio/32 pmol TPA. Compound
12 and poricoic acid C(
13) exhibited inhibitory effects on skin tumor promotion in an
in vivo two-stage carcinogenesis test using7,12-dimethylbenz[
a]anthracene (DMBA) as an initiator and TPA as a promoter.