Cytotoxic and Noncytotoxic Metabolites from Teratosphaeria sp. FL2137, a Fungus Associated with Pinus clausa

Chayanika Padumadasa, Ya Ming Xu, E. M.Kithsiri Wijeratne, Patricia Espinosa-Artiles, Jana M. U'Ren, A. Elizabeth Arnold, A. A.Leslie Gunatilaka

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Abstract

A new naphthoquinone, teratosphaerone A (1), four new naphthalenones, namely, teratosphaerone B (2), structurally related to 1, iso-balticol B (3), iso-balticol B-4,9-acetonide (4), and (+)-balticol C (5), a new furanonaphthalenone, (3aS,9R,9aS)-1(9a),3(3a),9-hexahydromonosporascone (6), and the known metabolite monosporascone (7) were isolated from Teratosphaeria sp. FL2137, a fungal strain inhabiting the internal tissue of recently dead but undecomposed foliage of Pinus clausa. The structures of 1-6 were elucidated on the basis of their spectroscopic data including 2D NMR, and absolute configurations of 2, 3, and 6 were determined by the modified Mosher's ester method. When evaluated in a panel of five tumor cell lines, metabolites 1 and 7 isolated from a cytotoxic fraction of the extract exhibited moderate selectivity for metastatic breast adenocarcinoma cell line MDA-MB-231. Of these, 1 showed cytotoxicity to this cell line with an IC 50 of 1.2 ± 0.1 μM.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)616-624
Number of pages9
JournalJournal Of Natural Products
Volume81
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 23 2018

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Molecular Medicine
  • Pharmacology
  • Pharmaceutical Science
  • Drug Discovery
  • Complementary and alternative medicine
  • Organic Chemistry

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