Hispidulones A and B, two new phenalenone analogs from desert plant endophytic fungus Chaetosphaeronema hispidulum

J Antibiot (Tokyo). 2020 Jan;73(1):56-59. doi: 10.1038/s41429-019-0247-z. Epub 2019 Oct 17.

Abstract

Two new phenalenone analogs hispidulones A (1) and B (2) were isolated from the specially bioenvironmental desert plant endophytic fungus Chaetosphaeronema hispidulum. The structure of these two compounds were elucidated by extensive spectra analysis including HR-ESI-MS, NMR (1H, 13C, 1H-1H COSY, HSQC, and HMBC), CD, and electronic circular dichroism (ECD) combined with quantum-chemical calculations adopting time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) approaches. The W long-ranged 1H-1H COSY and HMBC correlations are very important in the structural elucidation of these two compounds. Hispidulone A (1) possesses a cyclohexa-2,5-dien-1-one moiety, whereas hispidulone B (2) contains a hemiacetal OCH3 group, which are very rare in the structures of phenalenone analogs. According to structural features of these two compounds together considering the literature, the possible biosynthetic pathway of 1 and 2 was postulated. Hispidulone B (2) displayed cytotoxic activities against three cancer cell lines A549, Huh7, and HeLa with IC50 values of 2.71 ± 0.08, 22.93 ± 1.61, and 23.94 ± 0.33 μM.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • A549 Cells
  • Antibiotics, Antineoplastic / isolation & purification*
  • Antibiotics, Antineoplastic / pharmacology
  • Ascomycota / chemistry*
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • Circular Dichroism
  • Desert Climate
  • Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor
  • Endophytes / chemistry*
  • HeLa Cells
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  • Molecular Structure
  • Plants / microbiology
  • Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization

Substances

  • Antibiotics, Antineoplastic