Serinolamides and Lyngbyabellins from an Okeania sp. Cyanobacterium Collected from the Red Sea

J Nat Prod. 2017 Oct 27;80(10):2708-2715. doi: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.7b00449. Epub 2017 Oct 11.

Abstract

NMR- and MS-guided fractionation of an extract of an Okeania sp. marine cyanobacterium, collected from the Red Sea, led to the isolation of four new metabolites, including serinolamides C (1) and D (2) and lyngbyabellins O (3) and P (4), together with the three known substances lyngbyabellins F (5) and G (6) and dolastatin 16 (7). The planar structures of the new compounds were determined using NMR and MS analyses. The absolute configurations of 1 and 2 were determined by Marfey's analysis of their hydrolysates. The absolute configuration of 3 was ascertained by chiral-phase chromatography of degradation products, while that of 4 was determined by comparison to 3 and 5. The cytotoxic and antifouling activities of these compounds were evaluated using MCF7 breast cancer cells and Amphibalanus amphitrite larvae, respectively. Compounds 3, 4, and 7 exhibited strong antifouling activity, and 3 and 7 were not cytotoxic. A structure-activity relationship was observed for the cytotoxicity of the lyngbyabellins with the presence of a side chain (4 is more active than 3) leading to greater activity. For the antifouling activity, the acyclic form without a side chain (3) was the most active.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Biofouling / prevention & control
  • Breast Neoplasms
  • Cyanobacteria / chemistry*
  • Depsipeptides / chemistry
  • Depsipeptides / isolation & purification*
  • Depsipeptides / pharmacology
  • Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Indian Ocean
  • Lipids / chemistry
  • Lipids / isolation & purification*
  • Lipids / pharmacology
  • Marine Biology
  • Molecular Structure
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular
  • Structure-Activity Relationship
  • Thoracica / chemistry

Substances

  • Depsipeptides
  • Lipids
  • dolastatin 16
  • serinolamide C
  • serinolamide D