Stereochemical determination of four 10-membered ring resorcylic acid lactones from the desert plant endophytic fungus Chaetosphaeronema hispidulum

J Antibiot (Tokyo). 2020 Jul;73(7):471-474. doi: 10.1038/s41429-020-0297-2. Epub 2020 Mar 11.

Abstract

Four 10-membered ring resorcylic acid lactones (RALs) including a new compound hispidulactone F (1) and three known analogs hispidulactone B (2), 2 R, 4R-sonnerlactone (3), and 2 R, 4S-sonnerlactone (4) were isolated from the special bioenvironmental desert plant endophytic fungus Chaetosphaeronema hispidulum. The structure of the new compound hispidulactone F (1) was determined by extensive spectra analysis including HR-ESI-MS, NMR (1H, 13C, 1H-1H COSY, HSQC, and HMBC). Hispidulactone F (1) and hispidulactone B (2) were a pair of stereoisomers at C-3, whereas 2 R, 4R-sonnerlactone (3) and 2 R, 4S-sonnerlactone (4) were another pair of stereoisomers at C-4. The stereochemistries of the hydroxyl groups at C-3 in 1 and 2, and at C-4 in 3 and 4 were first determined by modified Mosher's reactions. Thus, the absolute configuration C-3 in hispidulactone B (2) was not right in our previous report, and was rectified to be R. Compounds 1 and 4 were evaluated for their cytotoxic effects on the proliferation of HepG2. The possible biosynthetic pathway of compounds 1-4 was also presented.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Antineoplastic Agents / chemistry
  • Ascomycota / chemistry*
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • Endophytes / chemistry*
  • Hep G2 Cells
  • Humans
  • Lactones / chemistry*
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / methods
  • Plants / microbiology*
  • Stereoisomerism

Substances

  • Antineoplastic Agents
  • Lactones

Supplementary concepts

  • Chaetosphaeronema hispidulum