Induced marine fungus Chondrostereum sp. as a means of producing new sesquiterpenoids chondrosterins I and J by using glycerol as the carbon source

Mar Drugs. 2014 Jan 7;12(1):167-75. doi: 10.3390/md12010167.

Abstract

Chondrostereum sp., a marine fungus isolated from a soft coral Sarcophyton tortuosum, can yield hirsutane framework sesquiterpenoids. However, the metabolites profiles vary dramatically with the composition change of the culture media. This fungus was cultured in a liquid medium containing glycerol as the carbon source, and two new metabolites, chondrosterins I and J (1 and 2), were obtained. Their structures were elucidated primarily based on MS, NMR and X-ray single-crystal diffraction data. By comparison with the known hirsutane sesquiterpenoids, chondrosterins I and J have unique structural features, including a methyl was migrated from C-2 to C-6, and the methyl at C-3 was carboxylated. Compound 2 exhibited potent cytotoxic activities against the cancer cell lines CNE-1 and CNE-2 with the IC50 values of 1.32 and 0.56 μM.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Antineoplastic Agents / chemistry
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
  • Circular Dichroism
  • Crystallography, X-Ray
  • Culture Media
  • Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor
  • Glycerol / metabolism*
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  • Models, Molecular
  • Polyporaceae / chemistry
  • Polyporaceae / metabolism*
  • Sesquiterpenes / chemistry*
  • Spectrophotometry, Infrared
  • Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet
  • Tetrazolium Salts
  • Thiazoles

Substances

  • Antineoplastic Agents
  • Culture Media
  • Sesquiterpenes
  • Tetrazolium Salts
  • Thiazoles
  • chondrosterin J
  • thiazolyl blue
  • Glycerol