Title
Antifungal Bromopyrrole Alkaloids from the South China Sea Sponge Agelas sp
Author
Yan Zhu, Yan Wang, Bin-Bin Gu, Fan Yang, Wei-Hua Jiao, Gan-Hai Hu, Hao-Bing Yu, Bing-Nan Han, Wei Zhang, Yang Shen, Hou-Wen Lin
Year
2016
Journal
Tetrahedron
Abstract
Six new bromopyrrole alkaloids, longamides D–F (1–3), 3-oxethyl-4-[1-(4,5-dibromopyrrole-2-yl)-formamido]-butanoic acid methyl ester (4), 2-oxethyl-3-[1-(4,5-dibromopyrrole-2-yl)-formamido]-methyl propionate (5), and 9-oxethyl-mukanadin F (6), along with two known metabolites, hanishin (7) and longamide B methyl ester (8), were isolated from the South China Sea sponge Agelas sp. The racemic mixtures 1–5, 7 and 8were resolved into seven pairs of enantiomers 1a/1b–5a/5b, 7a/7b, and 8a/8b through HPLC using a Chiralcel OJ-RH column. The structures were elucidated on the basis of spectroscopic data. The absolute configurations of each enantiomer of (±)-1 and (±)-2were established through the quantum mechanical calculations of the corresponding electronic circular dichroism (ECD) spectra and using the CD exciton chirality method, respectively, whereas the absolute configurations of 3a and 3b were confirmed by comparing the experimental CD spectra with that of (−)-S-longamide B methyl ester. Individual enantiomers (+)-(9S, 10R)-1a, (−)-S-2b, (+)-R-3a, (+)-R-7a, and (+)-R-8aexhibited effective antifungal activity against Candida albicans in a Caenorhabditis elegans candidiasis model.
Instrument
J-810
Keywords
Circular dichroism, Absolute configuration, Pharmaceutical