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Published on: October 25, 2024
Three antimycobacterial metabolites identified from a marine-derived Streptomyces sp. MS100061
Caixia Chen1, Jian Wang, Hui Guo
1CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
In the course of a screening program for bioactive compounds from a marine natural product library, a newly isolated Actinomycetes strain, designated as MS100061, exhibited strong anti-Mycobacterium bovis Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) activity. The strain belongs to the genus Streptomyces according to its morphological and 16S rDNA phylogenetic analysis. Bioassay-guided isolation resulted in a new spirotetronate, lobophorin G (1), together with two known compounds, lobophorins A (2) and B (3). The structures were elucidated by extensive spectroscopic methods and comparison with literatures. Compounds 1-3 were subjected to anti-BCG, antituberculosis, and antibacterial screening and exhibited potent anti-BCG activity with minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values of 1.56, 1.56, and 0.78 μg/ml, respectively, and moderate anti-Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv activity with MIC values of 32, 32, and 16 μg/ml, respectively. The MIC values of compounds 1-3 against Bacillus subtilis were 3.125, 12.5, and 1.56 μg/ml, respectively, indicating great potential for antibacterial drugs. In addition, this is the first report of the anti-BCG and antituberculosis activities of lobophorins.
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