Phomalone, an antifungal metabolite of Phoma etheridgei

1994 ◽  
Vol 72 (11) ◽  
pp. 2326-2332 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Ayer ◽  
Luis Diego Jimenez

The metabolites produced by liquid cultures of Phoma etheridgei, a new fungus isolated from black galls of aspen, have been examined. This fungus is antagonistic to the aspen decay fungus Phellinus tremulae. The compound responsible for this antagonism has been isolated and its structure elucidated. Phomalone (1) is a previously undescribed natural product that possesses the same carbon skeleton as the Phoma pigmentivora metabolite LL-D253α. The structure was determined by physical methods, mainly 1H and 13C NMR. INAPT experiments played an important role. Some chemical transformations of phomalone (1) are described and it is shown by 13C-labelling experiments to be derived from six acetate units. Phomalone is active against Phellinus tremulae. Compounds 4, 6, 7, and 8 are also new natural products produced by P. etheridgei.

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. 1934578X1000501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haining Lv ◽  
Gaimei She

Diarylheptanoids, natural products with a 1,7-diphenylheptane structural skeleton, are mainly distributed in the roots, rhizomes and bark of Alpinia, Zingiber, Curcuma and Alnus species. They have become of interest in natural product research over the past twenty years because of their remarkable anticancer, anti-emetic, estrogenic, antimicrobial and antioxidant activity. This paper compiles all 307 naturally occurring diarylheptanoids from 46 plants as reported in 137 references with their distributions, physiological activities and 13C-NMR spectral data.


1995 ◽  
Vol 73 (12) ◽  
pp. 2119-2125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert K. Amegadzie ◽  
William A. Ayer ◽  
Lynne. Sigler

The metabolites of the wood rot decay fungus Sistotremaraduloides (P. Karst) Donk have been investigated and a new type of norpentaketide has been discovered. The compounds sistodiolynne (1), sistolynone (5), and sistopyrone (6) represent new carbon skeletons among natural products. The compounds are very unstable and readily polymerize in the presence of air to give black insoluble material. It has been shown by 13C NMR labelling experiments that they arise from five acetate units, and that a methyl carbon of one of the acetate units is lost during the biosynthesis. The structures were determined by spectroscopy methods, mainly NMR, and the absolute configuration of sistodiolynne was established by circular dichroism methods. Keywords: fungal metabolites, Sistotremaraduloides, norpentaketides, biosynthetic studies, polyacetylenes.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan J. Mills ◽  
Kaylib R. Robinson ◽  
Troy E. Zehnder ◽  
Joshua G. Pierce

The lipoxazolidinone family of marine natural products, with an unusual 4-oxazolidinone heterocycle at their core, represents a new scaffold for antimicrobial discovery; however, questions regarding their mechanism of action and high lipophilicity have likely slowed follow-up studies. Herein, we report the first synthesis of lipoxazolidinone A, 15 structural analogs to explore its active pharmacophore, and initial resistance and mechanism of action studies. These results suggest that 4-oxazolidinones are valuable scaffolds for antimicrobial development and reveal simplified lead compounds for further optimization.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Shirley ◽  
Brian P. Kelley ◽  
Yohann Potier ◽  
John H. Koschwanez ◽  
Robert Bruccoleri ◽  
...  

This pre-print explores ensemble modeling of natural product targets to match chemical structures to precursors found in large open-source gene cluster repository antiSMASH. Commentary on method, effectiveness, and limitations are enclosed. All structures are public domain molecules and have been reviewed for release.


2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ghodsi Mohammadi Ziarani ◽  
Fatemeh Mohajer ◽  
Zohreh kheilkordi

Background: Natural products have been received attention due to their importance in human life as those are biologically active. In this review, there are some reports through different methods related to the synthesis of the indolizidine 195B which was extracted from poisonous frog; however, due to respect nature, the synthesis of natural compounds such as indolizidine has been attracted much attention among scientists and researchers. Objective: This review discloses the procedures and methods to provide indolizidine 195B from 1989 to 2018 due to their importance as a natural product. Conclusion: There are several methods to give rise to the indolizidine 195B as a natural product that is highly active from the biological perspective in pharmaceutical chemistry. In summary, many protocols for the preparations of indolizidine 195B from various substrates, several reagents, and conditions have been reported from different aromatic and aliphatic.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nengzhong Wang ◽  
Zugen Wu ◽  
Junjie Wang ◽  
Nisar Ullah ◽  
Yixin Lu

A comprehensive and updated summary of asymmetric organocatalytic annulation reactions is presented; in particular, the applications of these annulation strategies to natural products synthesis are highlighted.


Metabolites ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Rafael de Felício ◽  
Patricia Ballone ◽  
Cristina Freitas Bazzano ◽  
Luiz F. G. Alves ◽  
Renata Sigrist ◽  
...  

Bacterial genome sequencing has revealed a vast number of novel biosynthetic gene clusters (BGC) with potential to produce bioactive natural products. However, the biosynthesis of secondary metabolites by bacteria is often silenced under laboratory conditions, limiting the controlled expression of natural products. Here we describe an integrated methodology for the construction and screening of an elicited and pre-fractionated library of marine bacteria. In this pilot study, chemical elicitors were evaluated to mimic the natural environment and to induce the expression of cryptic BGCs in deep-sea bacteria. By integrating high-resolution untargeted metabolomics with cheminformatics analyses, it was possible to visualize, mine, identify and map the chemical and biological space of the elicited bacterial metabolites. The results show that elicited bacterial metabolites correspond to ~45% of the compounds produced under laboratory conditions. In addition, the elicited chemical space is novel (~70% of the elicited compounds) or concentrated in the chemical space of drugs. Fractionation of the crude extracts further evidenced minor compounds (~90% of the collection) and the detection of biological activity. This pilot work pinpoints strategies for constructing and evaluating chemically diverse bacterial natural product libraries towards the identification of novel bacterial metabolites in natural product-based drug discovery pipelines.


Synthesis ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dávid Roman ◽  
Maria Sauer ◽  
Christine Beemelmanns

Here, we have summarized more than 30 representative natural product syntheses published in 2015 to 2020 that employ one or more Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons (HWE) reactions. We comprehensively describe the applied phosphonate reagents, HWE reaction conditions and key steps of the total synthetic approaches. Our comprehensive review will support future synthetic approaches and serve as guideline to find the best HWE conditions for the most complicated natural products known


RSC Advances ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 2596-2607
Author(s):  
R. P. Vivek-Ananth ◽  
Ajaya Kumar Sahoo ◽  
Kavyaa Kumaravel ◽  
Karthikeyan Mohanraj ◽  
Areejit Samal

First dedicated manually curated resource on secondary metabolites and therapeutic uses of medicinal fungi. Cheminformatics based analysis of the chemical space of fungal natural products.


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