Cytotoxic and Noncytotoxic Metabolites from Teratosphaeria sp. FL2137, a Fungus Associated with Pinus clausa

J Nat Prod. 2018 Mar 23;81(3):616-624. doi: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.7b00838. Epub 2018 Jan 26.

Abstract

A new naphthoquinone, teratosphaerone A (1), four new naphthalenones, namely, teratosphaerone B (2), structurally related to 1, iso-balticol B (3), iso-balticol B-4,9-acetonide (4), and (+)-balticol C (5), a new furanonaphthalenone, (3a S,9 R,9a S)-1(9a),3(3a),9-hexahydromonosporascone (6), and the known metabolite monosporascone (7) were isolated from Teratosphaeria sp. FL2137, a fungal strain inhabiting the internal tissue of recently dead but undecomposed foliage of Pinus clausa. The structures of 1-6 were elucidated on the basis of their spectroscopic data including 2D NMR, and absolute configurations of 2, 3, and 6 were determined by the modified Mosher's ester method. When evaluated in a panel of five tumor cell lines, metabolites 1 and 7 isolated from a cytotoxic fraction of the extract exhibited moderate selectivity for metastatic breast adenocarcinoma cell line MDA-MB-231. Of these, 1 showed cytotoxicity to this cell line with an IC50 of 1.2 ± 0.1 μM.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Ascomycota / chemistry*
  • Breast Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • Cytotoxins / chemistry*
  • Cytotoxins / pharmacology
  • Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor / methods
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / methods
  • Naphthoquinones / chemistry
  • Naphthoquinones / pharmacology
  • Pinus / microbiology*

Substances

  • Cytotoxins
  • Naphthoquinones