Bioactive Piperazic Acid-Bearing Cyclodepsipeptides, Lydiamycins E-H, from an Endophytic Streptomyces sp. Associated with Cinnamomum cassia .

A chemical investigation of the endophytic Streptomyces sp. HBQ95, associated with the medicinal plant Cinnamomum cassia Presl, enabled the discovery of four new piperazic acid-bearing cyclodepsipeptides, lydiamycins E-H ( 1 - 4 ), and one known compound (lydiamycin A). Their chemical structures, including absolute configurations, were defined by a combination of spectroscopic analyses and multiple chemical manipulations. Lydiamycins F-H ( 2 - 4 ) and A ( 5 ) exhibited antimetastatic activity against PANC-1 human pancreatic cancer cells without significant cytotoxicity.