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Keumja Yun1, Trung Thang Khong, Alain Simplice Leutou
1Department of Chemistry, Pukyong National University.
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Cristazine (1), a new class of dioxopiperazine alkaloid, along with previously isolated chetomin (2), neoechinulin A (3), and golmaenone (4), were isolated from the mudflat-sediment-derived fungus Chaetomium cristatum. The structure and absolute stereochemistry of 1 was assigned on the basis of NMR, electron impact (EI)-MS, tandem FAB-MS/MS, and circular dichroism (CD) experiments. Compounds 1-4 displayed potent radical-scavenging activity against 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH), with IC50 values of 19, 15, 24, and 20 µM, respectively, which were similar to that of the positive control, ascorbic acid (IC50, 20 µM). Compound 1 also displayed cytotoxic activity against human cervical carcinoma (HeLa) cells, with an IC50 value of 0.5 µM.
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