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Chen-Xi Zhang1,2, Wei-Jun Ma1, Dai-Lin Liu1
1a Tianjin Key Laboratory for Prevention and Control of Occupational and Environmental Hazard , Logistics University of Chinese People's Armed Police Forces , Tianjin , P.R. China.
Abstract:
Microbial transformation of ursolic acid (1) was carried out by Alternaria longipes AS 3.2875. Six transformed products (2-7) from 1 were isolated and their structures were identified as 3-carbonyl ursolic acid 28-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl ester (2), ursolic acid 3-O-β-D-glucopyranoside (3), ursolic acid 28-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl ester (4), 2α, 3β-dihydroxy ursolic acid 28-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl ester (5), 3β, 21β dihydroxy ursolic acid 28-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl ester (6), and 3-O-(β-D-glucopyranosyl)- ursolic acid 28-O-(β-D-glucopyranosyl) ester (7) based on the analysis of 1D NMR, 2DNMR and MS data. The product 2 was a new compound among them and showed stronger antibacterial activity against S. aureu, MRSA and MRCA than substrate. In this study, we modified structure of ursolic acid through biotransformation to enhance its activities and preliminarily discussed the transformation way of the products.
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