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Kentaro Takada1, Naoya Oku1, Megan L Peach2,3
1Molecular Targets Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201, United States.
Abstract:
Enigmazole B (1) and four new analogues, cis-enigmazole B (2), dehydroenigmazole B (3), enigmimide B (4), and enigmimide A (5), were isolated from the marine sponge Cinachyrella enigmatica. Their planar structures were elucidated by detailed NMR and MS data analyses, which established 1-3 to be oxazole-substituted 18-membered phosphomacrolides, while 4 and 5 were oxazole ring-opened congeners. The relative and absolute configurations in 1 were determined by a combination of chemical transformations and spectroscopic analyses. Photooxidation of the oxazole moiety in 1 gave enigmimide B (4), thus establishing that 4 has the same absolute configuration of 1. Enigmazole B (1) along with analogues 2 and 3 showed cytotoxicity against murine IC-2 mast cells with IC50 values of 3.6-7.0 μM. The enigmimides (4 and 5) and dephosphoenigmazoles did not show cytotoxicity (IC50 > 10 μM), implying that both the oxazole moiety and the phosphate group are necessary for the cytotoxicity of the enigmazole class macrolides.
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