Epitulipinolide diepoxide has antioxidative and chemopreventive activities in skin melanoma cells, can significantly inhibit the proliferation of melanoma cells, it possesses cytotoxic activity against KB cells.
Lipiferolide is an inhibitor of farnesyl protein transferase(FPTase), it inhibits the FPTase activity in a dose-dependent manner, and shows cell growth inhibitory activity against several tumor cells, it possesses cytotoxic activity against KB cells. Liriodenine also has antiplasmodial activity.