Marine Drugs (Jul 2011)

A New Hydroxylated Nonaprenylhydroquinone from the Mediterranean Marine Sponge Sarcotragus spinosulus

  • Mohamed Mehiri,
  • Guillaume Robert,
  • Vincent Guérineau,
  • Jean Vacelet,
  • Philippe Amade,
  • Patrick Auberger,
  • Maeva Dufies,
  • Charline Abed,
  • Nathalie Legrave

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/md9071210
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 7
pp. 1210 – 1219

Abstract

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Chemical investigation of the Mediterranean sponge Sarcotragus spinosulus led to the isolation of a new hydroxylated nonaprenylhydroquinone, along with two known metabolites, hepta- and octaprenylhydroquinones. The structure of the new metabolite was assigned by extensive 1D and 2D NMR analyses and MS studies. The antileukemic effect of the three compounds towards the chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) cells line K562 was also evaluated.

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