Marine Drugs (Dec 2019)

New Polyketides from the Marine-Derived Fungus <i>Letendraea</i> Sp. 5XNZ4-2

  • Yan Xu,
  • Ruibao Huang,
  • Hongwei Liu,
  • Tingting Yan,
  • Wanjing Ding,
  • Yongjun Jiang,
  • Pinmei Wang,
  • Daoqiong Zheng,
  • Jinzhong Xu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/md18010018
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 18, no. 1
p. 18

Abstract

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Marine-derived fungi have been reported to have great potential to produce structurally unique metabolites. Our investigation on secondary metabolites from marine-derived fungi resulted in the isolation of seven new polyketides (phomopsiketones D−G (1−4) and letendronols A−C (5−7)) as well as one known xylarinol (8) in the cultural broth of Letendraea sp. Their structures and absolute configurations were elucidated using a set of spectroscopic and chemical methods, including HRESIMS, NMR, single-crystal X-ray diffraction, ECD calculation, and a modified version of Mosher’s method. Compound 2 showed weak inhibition against nitric oxide production in lipopolysaccaride-activated macrophages with an IC50 value of 86 μM.

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