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Xingxing He1, Yanzheng Jin1, Fei Kong1
1School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China, Laboratory for Marine Drugs and Bioproducts of Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266003, China.
Abstract:
Meleagrin and oxaline, which belong to the roquefortine alkaloids with a unique dihydroindole spiroamide framework, have significant bioactivities, especially tumor cell inhibitory activity. In order to discover the requefortine alkaloids, Penicillium sp. OUCMDZ-1435 was fished and identified from marine fungi using molecular probe technology. Meleagrin (1) and oxaline (2) were isolated from it. In addition, we first reported that compounds 1 and 2 could effectively inhibit the proliferation and metastasis of the human HepG2 cell and induce HepG2 cell apoptosis and cell cycle arrest in the G2/M phase. Additionally, the fermentation of Meleagrin (1) was optimized to increase its yield to 335 mg/L. These results provided bioactive inspiration and fungus resources for roquefortine alkaloid development.
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