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Sorbicillinoid Derivatives with the Radical Scavenging Activities from the Marine-Derived Fungus Acremonium chrysogenum C10.

Chengbao DuanShiyuan WangRuiyun HuoErwei LiMin WangJinwei RenYuanyuan PanLing LiuGang Liu
Published in: Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) (2022)
Sorbicillinoids are a class of structurally diverse hexaketide metabolites with good biological activities. To explore new structural sorbicillinoids and their bioactivities, the marine-derived fungus Acremonium chrysogenum C10 was studied. Three new sorbicillinoid derivatives, acresorbicillinols A-C ( 1 - 3 ), along with five known ones, trichotetronine ( 4 ), trichodimerol ( 5 ), demethyltrichodimerol ( 6 ), trichopyrone ( 7 ) and oxosorbicillinol ( 8 ), were isolated. The structures of new sorbicillinoids were elucidated by analysis of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and high-resolution electrospray ionization mass spectroscopy (HRESIMS). The absolute configurations of compounds 1 - 3 were determined by comparison of the experimental and calculated electronic circular dichroism (ECD) spectra. Compound 3 exhibited a strong 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical scavenging activity, with the IC 50 value ranging from 11.53 ± 1.53 to 60.29 ± 6.28 μM in 24 h. Additionally, compounds 2 and 3 showed moderate activities against Staphylococcus aureus and Cryptococcus neoformans , with IC 50 values of 86.93 ± 1.72 and 69.06 ± 10.50 μM, respectively. The boundary of sorbicillinoid biosynthetic gene cluster in A. chrysogenum was confirmed by transcriptional analysis, and the biosynthetic pathway of compounds 1 - 8 was also proposed. In summary, our results indicated that A. chrysogenum is an important reservoir of sorbicillinoid derivatives, and compound 3 has the potential for new natural agents in DPPH radical scavenging.
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