Nine New and Five Known Polyketides Derived from a Deep Sea-Sourced Aspergillus sp. 16-02-1

• Main Authors: Xiu-Wen Chen, Chang-Wei Li, Cheng-Bin Cui, Wei Hua, Tian-Jiao Zhu, Qian-Qun Gu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2014-05-01
• Series: Marine Drugs
• Subjects: Aspergillus sp. 16-02-1; fungal strain from deep sea sediment; aspiketolactonol; aspilactonol; aspyronol; lactone; epiaspinonediol; polyketide; structure; cytotoxicity
• Online Access: http://www.mdpi.com/1660-3397/12/6/3116

Nine new C9 polyketides, named aspiketolactonol (1), aspilactonols A–F (2–7), aspyronol (9) and epiaspinonediol (11), were isolated together with five known polyketides, (S)-2-(2′-hydroxyethyl)-4-methyl-γ-butyrolactone (8), dihydroaspyrone (10), aspinotriol A (12), aspinotriol B (13) and chaetoquadrin F (14), from the secondary metabolites of an Aspergillus sp. 16-02-1 that was isolated from a deep-sea sediment sample. Structures of the new compounds, including their absolute configurations, were determined by spectroscopic methods, especially the 2D NMR, circular dichroism (CD), Mo2-induced CD and Mosher’s 1H NMR analyses. Compound 8 was isolated from natural sources for the first time, and the possible biosynthetic pathways for 1–14 were also proposed and discussed. Compounds 1–14 inhibited human cancer cell lines, K562, HL-60, HeLa and BGC-823, to varying extents.