Eurothiocin A and B, sulfur-containing benzofurans from a soft coral-derived fungus Eurotium rubrum SH-823

Mar Drugs. 2014 Jun 20;12(6):3669-80. doi: 10.3390/md12063669.

Abstract

Two new sulfur-containing benzofuran derivatives, eurothiocin A and B (1 and 2), along with five known compounds, zinniol (3), butyrolactone I (4), aspernolide D (5), vermistatin (6), and methoxyvermistatin (7), were isolated from the cultures of Eurotium rubrum SH-823, a fungus obtained from a Sarcophyton sp. soft coral collected from the South China Sea. The new compounds (1 and 2) share a methyl thiolester moiety, which is quite rare among natural secondary metabolites. The structures of these metabolites were assigned on the basis of detailed spectroscopic analysis. The absolute configurations of 1 and 2 were determined by comparison of the experimental and calculated electronic circular dichroism (ECD) data. Compounds 1 and 2 exhibited more potent inhibitory effects against α-glucosidase activity than the clinical α-glucosidase inhibitor acarbose. Further mechanistic analysis showed that both of them exhibited competitive inhibition characteristics.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Acarbose / pharmacology
  • Animals
  • Anthozoa / microbiology*
  • Benzofurans / chemistry
  • Benzofurans / isolation & purification
  • Benzofurans / pharmacology*
  • China
  • Circular Dichroism
  • Eurotium / isolation & purification
  • Eurotium / metabolism*
  • Glycoside Hydrolase Inhibitors / chemistry
  • Glycoside Hydrolase Inhibitors / isolation & purification
  • Glycoside Hydrolase Inhibitors / pharmacology*
  • Oceans and Seas
  • Spectrum Analysis
  • alpha-Glucosidases / drug effects
  • alpha-Glucosidases / metabolism

Substances

  • Benzofurans
  • Glycoside Hydrolase Inhibitors
  • eurothiocin A
  • eurothiocin B
  • alpha-Glucosidases
  • Acarbose