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Cytotoxic Polyketides With An Oxygen-Bridged Cyclooctadiene Core Skeleton From The Mangrove Endophytic Fungus Phomosis Sp. A818, Wei Zhang, Baobing Zhao, Liangcheng Du, Yuemao Shen
Cytotoxic Polyketides With An Oxygen-Bridged Cyclooctadiene Core Skeleton From The Mangrove Endophytic Fungus Phomosis Sp. A818, Wei Zhang, Baobing Zhao, Liangcheng Du, Yuemao Shen
Chemistry Department: Faculty Publications
Plant endophytic microorganisms represent a largely untapped resource for new bioactive natural products. Eight polyketide natural products were isolated from a mangrove endophytic fungus Phomosis sp. A818. The structural elucidation of these compounds revealed that they share a distinct feature in their chemical structures, an oxygen-bridged cyclooctadiene core skeleton. The study on their structure–activity relationship showed that the α,β-unsaturated δ-lactone moiety, as exemplified in compounds 1 and 2, was critical to the cytotoxic activity of these compounds. In addition, compound 4 might be a potential agonist of AMPK (5'-adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase).