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Published on: October 31, 2019
Microbial biotransformation of kurarinone by Cunninghamella echinulata AS 3.3400
Yan-Qiu Shi1, Xiu-Lan Xin, Qi-Peng Yuan
1State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China.
Abstract:
In this paper, microbial transformation of kurarinone (1) by Cunninghamella echinulata AS 3.3400 was investigated and four transformed products were isolated and identified as 6″-hydroxykurarinone (2), 4″,5″,8″-trihydroxynorkurarinone (3), norkurarinone (4), and kurarinone-7-O-β-glucoside (5), respectively. Among them, 3 and 5 are new compounds, and the rare glycosylation in microbial transformation was observed. In addition, the cytotoxicities of transformed products (2-5) were also investigated.
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