Microbial metabolism studies of cyanthiwigin B and synergetic antibiotic effects

J Nat Prod. 2006 May;69(5):727-30. doi: 10.1021/np050197e.

Abstract

Microbial transformation studies of the marine diterpene cyanthiwigin B (1), isolated from the Jamaican sponge Myrmekioderma styx, were accomplished. Two actinomycete cultures, Streptomyces NRRL 5690 and Streptomyces spheroides, significantly metabolized cyanthiwigin B to new metabolites. Streptomyces NRRL 5690 transformed cyanthiwigin B to three new compounds, cyanthiwigins AE (2), AF (3), and AG (4), and the known cyanthiwigin R (5). S. spheroides transformed cyanthiwigin B to cyanthiwigins S (6), E (7), and AE (2). All microbial-metabolized derivatives (2-7) of cyanthiwigin B exhibited the ability to increase the antimicrobial activity of curcuphenol, the major antimicrobial sesquiterpene isolated from M. styx.

Publication types

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

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents* / chemistry
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents* / isolation & purification
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents* / metabolism
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents* / pharmacology
  • Diterpenes* / chemistry
  • Diterpenes* / isolation & purification
  • Diterpenes* / metabolism
  • Diterpenes* / pharmacology
  • Jamaica
  • Microbial Sensitivity Tests
  • Molecular Structure
  • Porifera / chemistry*
  • Sesquiterpenes / pharmacology
  • Streptomyces / metabolism*

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Diterpenes
  • Sesquiterpenes
  • cyanthiwigin B
  • curcuphenol