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  2. Asperanstinoids A-E: Undescribed 3,5-dimethylorsellinic acid-based meroterpenoids from Aspergillus calidoustus

Asperanstinoids A-E: Undescribed 3,5-dimethylorsellinic acid-based meroterpenoids from Aspergillus calidoustus

  • Phytochemistry. 2021 Oct;190:112892. doi: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2021.112892.
Shuyuan Mo 1 Jie Yin 1 Zi Ye 1 Fengli Li 1 Shuang Lin 1 Sitian Zhang 1 Beiye Yang 1 Jun Yao 1 Jianping Wang 2 Zhengxi Hu 3 Yonghui Zhang 4
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Affiliations

  • 1 Hubei Key Laboratory of Natural Medicinal Chemistry and Resource Evaluation, School of Pharmacy, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, People's Republic of China.
  • 2 Hubei Key Laboratory of Natural Medicinal Chemistry and Resource Evaluation, School of Pharmacy, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, People's Republic of China. Electronic address: jpwang1001@163.com.
  • 3 Hubei Key Laboratory of Natural Medicinal Chemistry and Resource Evaluation, School of Pharmacy, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, People's Republic of China. Electronic address: hzx616@126.com.
  • 4 Hubei Key Laboratory of Natural Medicinal Chemistry and Resource Evaluation, School of Pharmacy, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, People's Republic of China. Electronic address: zhangyh@mails.tjmu.edu.cn.
Abstract

Large-scale culture is a complementary and practical method for genome mining and OSMAC approaches to discover novel Natural Products through accumulation and reprocessing effects. By employing a large-scale culture approach, twelve 3,5-dimethylorsellinic acid (DMOA)-based meroterpenoids, including five undescribed compounds, namely asperanstinoids A-E, were obtained from fungus Aspergillus calidoustus, which was isolated from the wetland soil collected at Dianchi Lake, Yunnan Province. The structures and absolute configurations of asperanstinoids A-E were determined by various spectroscopic analyses, including NMR spectroscopy, high-resolution electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (HRESIMS), single-crystal X-ray diffraction, and electronic circular dichroism (ECD) calculations, and the absolute configurations of three known compounds, dehydroaustinol, austinol, and austin, were confirmed via single-crystal X-ray diffraction for the first time. Notably, asperanstinoid A represents the second example of a DMOA-based meroterpenoid featuring a unique 6/5/6/6/6/5-fused hexacyclic skeleton with a rare "1,13-epoxy" moiety. The cytotoxicity assay of all these isolates revealed that asperanstinoid D, dehydroaustinol, and austin displayed considerable cytotoxicity against the HL-60 and SU-DHL-4 tumor cell lines with IC50 values ranging from 15.7 to 27.8 μM.

Keywords

Aspergillus calidoustus; Cytotoxicity; Meroterpenoids; Trichocomaceae.

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