ABSTRACT
Two new merosesquiterpenes, verruculides A (1) and B (2), were isolated from a culture broth of the Indonesian ascidian-derived Penicillium verruculosum TPU1311, together with three known congeners, chrodrimanins A (3), B (4), and H (5). The structures of 1 and 2 were assigned on the basis of their spectroscopic data (1D and 2D NMR, HRMS, UV, CD, and IR). Compound 2 had a linear sesquiterpene moiety and was considered to be the derivative of the biosynthetic precursor for 1 and 3-5. Compounds 1, 3, and 5 inhibited the activity of protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTP1B) with IC50 values of 8.4, 8.5, and 14.9 µM, respectively. Compound 2 showed 40% inhibition at 23.1 µM, while 4 was not active at 20.7 µM.
Subject(s)
Enzyme Inhibitors/chemistry , Penicillium/chemistry , Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 1/antagonists & inhibitors , Sesquiterpenes/chemistry , Urochordata/microbiology , Animals , Enzyme Inhibitors/isolation & purification , Indonesia , Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy , Molecular Conformation , Penicillium/metabolism , Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 1/metabolism , Sesquiterpenes/isolation & purificationABSTRACT
Two new octaketides, trichoketides A (1) and B (2), were isolated from a culture broth of the seawater-derived fungus Trichoderma sp. TPU1237 together with two known analogs, trichodermaketones C (3) and D (4), by ODS column chromatography followed by preparative ODS and chiral HPLC. The structures of 1 and 2 were elucidated on the basis of their spectroscopic data, and absolute configurations were assigned by comparing their experimental electronic circular dichroism (ECD) spectra with the calculated ECD spectra. Compounds 1 and 2 were epimers at the C-8 position (α-position of dihydrofuran ring). The IC50 values of compounds 1-4 against protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B were 53.1, 65.1, 68.0 and 55.9 µM, respectively.
