Molecules (Feb 2021)

Antimicrobial Metabolites against Methicillin-Resistant <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> from the Endophytic Fungus <i>Neofusicoccum australe</i>

  • Melissa M. Cadelis,
  • Soeren Geese,
  • Benedict B. Uy,
  • Daniel R. Mulholland,
  • Shara J. van de Pas,
  • Alex Grey,
  • Bevan S. Weir,
  • Brent R. Copp,
  • Siouxsie Wiles

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules26041094
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 26, no. 4
p. 1094

Abstract

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Antimicrobial bioassay-guided fractionation of the endophytic fungi Neofusicoccum australe led to the isolation of a new unsymmetrical naphthoquinone dimer, neofusnaphthoquinone B (1), along with four known natural products (2–5). Structure elucidation was conducted by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopic methods, and the antimicrobial activity of all the natural products was investigated, revealing 1 to be moderately active towards methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) with a minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of 16 µg/mL.

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