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Published on: July 17, 2020
Naphtho-γ-pyrones from Endophyte Aspergillus niger occurring in the liverwort Heteroscyphus tener (Steph.) Schiffn
Xiao-Bin Li1, Fei Xie, Shan-Shan Liu
1Department of Natural Products Chemistry, Key Lab of Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shandong University, No. 44 West Wenhua Road, Jinan 250012, P. R. China.
Abstract:
Bioactivity-guided fractionation of the cytotoxic extract of Aspergillus niger, an endophytic fungus from the Chinese liverwort Heteroscyphus tener (Steph.) Schiffn., afforded five new naphtho-γ-pyrones, rubrofusarin-6-O-α-D-ribofuranoside (1), (R)-10-(3-succinimidyl)-TMC-256A1 (2), asperpyrone E (3), isoaurasperone A (4), and isoaurasperone F (5), as well as four known ones, dianhydroaurasperone C (6), aurasperone D (7), asperpyrone D (8), and asperpyrone A (9), together with a cytotoxic cyclic pentapeptide, malformin A1 (10). Their structures were determined by extensive spectroscopic analysis. The absolute configurations of dimeric naphtho-γ-pyrones 3-9 were also determined by analysis of their respective CD spectra.
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