Stereochemical determination of four 10-membered ring resorcylic acid lactones from the desert plant endophytic fungus Chaetosphaeronema hispidulum.

Four 10-membered ring resorcylic acid lactones (RALs) including a new compound hispidulactone F (1) and three known analogs hispidulactone B (2), 2 R, 4R-sonnerlactone (3), and 2 R, 4S-sonnerlactone (4) were isolated from the special bioenvironmental desert plant endophytic fungus Chaetosphaeronema hispidulum. The structure of the new compound hispidulactone F (1) was determined by extensive spectra analysis including HR-ESI-MS, NMR (1H, 13C, 1H-1H COSY, HSQC, and HMBC). Hispidulactone F (1) and hispidulactone B (2) were a pair of stereoisomers at C-3, whereas 2 R, 4R-sonnerlactone (3) and 2 R, 4S-sonnerlactone (4) were another pair of stereoisomers at C-4. The stereochemistries of the hydroxyl groups at C-3 in 1 and 2, and at C-4 in 3 and 4 were first determined by modified Mosher's reactions. Thus, the absolute configuration C-3 in hispidulactone B (2) was not right in our previous report, and was rectified to be R. Compounds 1 and 4 were evaluated for their cytotoxic effects on the proliferation of HepG2. The possible biosynthetic pathway of compounds 1-4 was also presented.

[16S rDNA diversity analysis of 30 Streptomycetes isolates displaying significant cytotoxic activity against B16 cell from near-shore sediments of Hainan Island].

A total of 354 isolates of actinomycetes, of which 76 were detected cytotoxic activity was isolated from near-shore marine samples collected at Wenchang mangrove, DanZhou harbor and YanPu harbor. Four isolation methods were employed, which are SDS pretreatment, phenol pretreatment, heating pretreatment and potassium dichromate selection culture, and media such as'Yeast extract-Malt extract (YE), Glucose-Asprine (GA), Starch-Casin (SC), Starch-KNO3 (Gause) were used. It was showed that heating pretreatment and potassium dichromate selection culture were more considerable methods for extensive isolation of actinomycetes. Medium YE and Gause showed best results in both the total number of actinomycetes and the number of active isolates against tumor cell B16. The genotypic diversity of 30 strains of Streptomycetes possessing strong cytotoxic activity against B16 cell (ID50 > or =200) was analyzed by 16S ARDRA, which resulted in 17 RFLP types, and indicated relatively rich genotypic diversity among these Streptomycetes. 16S rDNA sequence analysis of three strains, 050642, 060386 and 060524 (ID50 > or = 1200) further confirmed that they all belong to Streptomyces genus and strain 050642 was suggested a novel Streptomyces. Spp with the highest similarity of 95% to Streptomyces cattleya.