Cytotoxic indole alkaloids and polyketides produced by a marine-derived fungus Aspergillus flavipes DS720

Frontiers in Microbiology
2022.0

Abstract

Marine-derived microorganisms possess the unique metabolic pathways to produce structurally novel secondary metabolites with potent biological activities. In this study, bioactivity-guided isolation of the marine deep-sea-derived fungus Aspergillus flavipes DS720 led to the characterization of four indole alkaloids (compounds 1-4) and four polyketides (compounds 5-8), such as two new indoles, flavonoids A (1) and B (2) with a C-6 reversed prenylation, and a new azaphilone, flaviazaphilone A (5). Their chemical structures were unambiguously established by an extensive interpretation of spectroscopic data, such as 1D/2D NMR and HRESIMS data. The absolute configurations of the new compound 5 were solved by comparing the experimental and calculated Electronic Circular Dichroism (ECD) spectra. Since sufficient amount of flavonoids A (1) was obtained, 1 was subjected to a large-scale cytotoxic activity screening against 20 different human tumor cell lines. The results revealed that 1 showed broad-spectrum cytotoxicities against HeLa, 5637, CAL-62, PATU8988T, A-375, and A-673 cell lines, with the inhibition rates of more than 90%. This study indicated that the newly discovered indole alkaloid 1 may possess certain potential for the development of lead compounds in the future.

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