Structure and biological activity of Metarhizin C, a stereoisomer of BR-050 from Tolypocladium album RK17-F0007

J Antibiot (Tokyo). 2019 Dec;72(12):996-1000. doi: 10.1038/s41429-019-0229-1. Epub 2019 Sep 3.

Abstract

Metarhizin C, a stereoisomer of BR-050 was isolated from a fungus Tolypocladium album RK17-F0007 through a screening program to search for new antitumor compounds. A structure of the isomer was determined by spectroscopic methods including detailed analysis of NOESY correlation and mass spectrometry, and found to be identical to that of 3-desacylmetarhizin A with the absolute structure. Previously, it had been isolated by Kikuchi et al and proposed as BR-050 including the stereo-structure. However, detailed analysis for the newly isolated isomer confirmed that 3-desacylmetarhizin A was not identical to BR-050. Therefore, we assigned it metarhizin C as a new BR-050 isomer. Metarhizin C showed selective cytotoxicity against osteosarcoma MG-63 cells in a glucose independent condition with IC50 value of 0.79 µg/ml, while > 30 µg/ml of IC50 value in a normal condition, and inhibited a mitochondrial respiration.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Antimalarials / chemistry
  • Antimalarials / pharmacology
  • Antineoplastic Agents / chemistry*
  • Antineoplastic Agents / pharmacology*
  • Bone Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Bone Neoplasms / pathology
  • Diterpenes / chemistry
  • Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor
  • Humans
  • Hypocreales / chemistry
  • Hypocreales / isolation & purification
  • Hypocreales / metabolism*
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  • Mass Spectrometry
  • Microbial Sensitivity Tests
  • Molecular Structure
  • Osteosarcoma / drug therapy
  • Osteosarcoma / pathology
  • Rats
  • Soil Microbiology
  • Stereoisomerism

Substances

  • Antimalarials
  • Antineoplastic Agents
  • Diterpenes
  • higginsianin B