Sesquiterpenes from an Eastern African Medicinal Mushroom Belonging to the Genus Sanghuangporus

J Nat Prod. 2019 May 24;82(5):1283-1291. doi: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.8b01086. Epub 2019 Apr 19.

Abstract

During the course of searching for new anti-infective and other biologically active secondary metabolites from Kenyan basidiomycetes, 13 previously undescribed metabolites, (6 R,7 S,10 R)-7,10-epoxy-7,11-dimethyldodec-1-ene-6,11-diol (1) and 12 sesquiterpenes named elgonenes A-L (2-13), and the known compound P-coumaric acid (14) were isolated from a basidiomycete collected in Mount Elgon Natural Reserve. The producing organism represents a new species of the genus Sanghuangporus, which is one of the segregates of the important traditional Asian medicinal mushrooms that were formerly known as the " Inonotus linteus" complex. The structure elucidation of compounds 1-13, based on 2D NMR spectroscopy, high-resolution mass spectrometry, and other spectral methods, and their antibacterial, antifungal, and cytotoxic activities are reported.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Africa, Eastern
  • Agaricales / chemistry*
  • Anti-Infective Agents / chemistry*
  • Anti-Infective Agents / pharmacology*
  • Antibiotics, Antineoplastic / chemistry*
  • Antibiotics, Antineoplastic / pharmacology*
  • Bacteria / drug effects
  • Basidiomycota / chemistry*
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor
  • Fermentation
  • Fungi / drug effects
  • Humans
  • Kenya
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  • Microbial Sensitivity Tests
  • Molecular Structure
  • Sesquiterpenes / chemistry*
  • Sesquiterpenes / pharmacology*
  • Tandem Mass Spectrometry

Substances

  • Anti-Infective Agents
  • Antibiotics, Antineoplastic
  • Sesquiterpenes