Chemical Constituents of the Deep-Sea-Derived Penicillium citrinum W22 and Their Ferroptosis Inhibitory Activity

Chem Biodivers. 2025 Jan 17:e202403319. doi: 10.1002/cbdv.202403319. Online ahead of print.

Abstract

One new monomeric citrinin analog (1) and 42 known compounds (2-43) were isolated from Penicillium citrinum W22. The structure of 1 was determined by detailed analysis of the 1D and 2D nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), HRESIMS, and time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT)-based electronic circular dichroism (ECD) calculation. Penicitrinol A (2) and methyl 2-(2-acetyl-3,5-dihydroxy-4,6-dimethylphenyl) acetate (11) significantly inhibited renin-angiotensin system-selective lethal 3 (RSL3)-induced ferroptosis with half maximal effective concentration (EC50) values of 1.6 and 34.0 µM, respectively.

Keywords: citrinin | deep‐sea | ferroptosis inhibitory activity | fungus | Penicillium citrinum.