Pyrroloiminoquinone pigments from Didymium iridis

Biochemical Systematics and Ecology
2005.0

Abstract

Laboratory culture of myxomycetes was recently investigated in our laboratories from the viewpoint of search for bioactive secondary metabolites. Fruit bodies of Didymium iridis, which were found on a dead leaf, were collected at Ochi-san, Fukui Prefecture, Japan, in July, 2002. The plasmodium of this myxomycete was mass cultured in the laboratory on agar plates with oatmeal. The harvested plasmodial cells were extracted with 90% aqueous MeOH and 90% acetone. The extract was subjected to silica gel column chromatography and HPLC to give a green pigment makaluvamine I (1, 4.3 mg) and a red pigment damirone C (2, 1.5 mg), which were identified by spectroscopic methods including ¹H and/or ¹³C NMR and FABMS. Isolation of these pyrroloiminoquinone pigments has previously been reported from a marine sponge Zyzzya fuliginosa, while makaluvamines A and B were isolated from the myxomycete D. bahiense previously.

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