Marine Drugs (Aug 2020)

Agesasines A and B, Bromopyrrole Alkaloids from Marine Sponges <i>Agelas</i> spp

  • Sanghoon Lee,
  • Naonobu Tanaka,
  • Sakura Takahashi,
  • Daisuke Tsuji,
  • Sang-Yong Kim,
  • Mareshige Kojoma,
  • Kohji Itoh,
  • Jun’ichi Kobayashi,
  • Yoshiki Kashiwada

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/md18090455
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 18, no. 9
p. 455

Abstract

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Exploration for specialized metabolites of Okinawan marine sponges Agelas spp. resulted in the isolation of five new bromopyrrole alkaloids, agesasines A (1) and B (2), 9-hydroxydihydrodispacamide (3), 9-hydroxydihydrooroidin (4), and 9E-keramadine (5). Their structures were elucidated on the basis of spectroscopic analyses. Agesasines A (1) and B (2) were assigned as rare bromopyrrole alkaloids lacking an aminoimidazole moiety, while 3–5 were elucidated to be linear bromopyrrole alkaloids with either aminoimidazolone, aminoimidazole, or N-methylated aminoimidazole moieties.

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