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Bisabolane, cyclonerane, and harziane derivatives from the marine-alga-endophytic fungus Trichoderma asperellum
Yin-Ping Song1, Xiang-Hong Liu2, Zhen-Zhen Shi1
1Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai 264003, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
Abstract:
Three undescribed bisabolane derivatives, trichaspin, trichaspsides A and B, three undescribed cyclonerane sesquiterpenes, 9-cycloneren-3,7,11-triol, 11-cycloneren-3,7,10-triol, and 7,10-epoxycycloneran-3,11,12-triol, and one undescribed harziane diterpene, 11-hydroxy-9-harzien-3-one, were obtained from the culture of Trichoderma asperellum cf44-2, an endophyte of the marine brown alga Sargassum sp. Their structures and relative configurations were assigned by analysis of 1D/2D NMR and MS data, and their absolute configurations were established by ECD or specific optical rotation data. Trichaspin features an unprecedented ethylated bisabolane skeleton, while trichaspsides A and B represent the first aminoglycosides of bisabolane and norbisabolane sesquiterpenes, respectively. Nine of the compounds were evaluated for inhibition of five marine-derived pathogenic bacteria and toxicity to a marine zooplankton.
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