Hawaiienols A-D, Highly Oxygenated p-Terphenyls from an Insect-Associated Fungus, Paraconiothyrium hawaiiense

J Nat Prod. 2018 Aug 24;81(8):1752-1759. doi: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.8b00106. Epub 2018 Jul 19.

Abstract

Four new highly oxygenated p-terphenyls, hawaiienols A-D (1-4), have been isolated from cultures of Paraconiothyrium hawaiiense, a fungus associated with the Septobasidium-infected insect Diaspidiotus sp.; their structures were elucidated primarily by NMR experiments. The absolute configurations of 1 and 2-4 were assigned by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis using Cu Kα radiation and via electronic circular dichroism calculations, respectively. Compound 1 incorporated the first naturally occurring 4,7-dioxatricyclo[3.2.1.03,6]octane unit in its p-terphenyl skeleton and showed cytotoxicity toward six human tumor cell lines.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Antibiotics, Antineoplastic / chemistry*
  • Antibiotics, Antineoplastic / pharmacology*
  • Ascomycota / chemistry
  • Ascomycota / metabolism*
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • Circular Dichroism
  • Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor
  • Humans
  • Insecta / microbiology*
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  • Molecular Structure
  • Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization
  • Terphenyl Compounds / chemistry*
  • Terphenyl Compounds / pharmacology*
  • X-Ray Diffraction

Substances

  • Antibiotics, Antineoplastic
  • Terphenyl Compounds