Stucturally Diverse Sesquiterpenes Produced by a Chinese Tibet Fungus Stereum hirsutum and Their Cytotoxic and Immunosuppressant Activities.

Two new heterodimeric sesquiterpenes, sterhirsutins C (1) and D (2), along with eight new sesquiterpenoid derivatives, sterhirsutins E--L (3-10), were isolated from the culture of Stereum hirsutum. The absolute configuration of 1 was assigned by a single-crystal X-ray diffraction experiment. Compounds 1 and 2 possessed an unprecedented chemical skeleton with a 5/5/5/6/9/4 fused ring system. Compound 10 is the first sesquiterpene coupled with a xanthine moiety. Compounds 1-10 showed cytotoxicity against K562 and HCT116 cell lines. Compound 9 induced autophagy in HeLa cells. Compound 5 inhibited the activation of IFNß promoter in Sendai virus infected cells.