Two new anticancer antibiotics of the angucycline class, moromycins A and B (1, 2), along with the known microbial metabolites saquayamycin B (3) and fridamycin D (4) were isolated from the ethyl acetate extract of a culture broth of the terrestrial Streptomyces sp. KY002. The structures consist of a tetrangomycin core and various C- and O-glycosidically linked deoxysugars. The chemical structures of the new secondary metabolites were elucidated by 1D and 2D NMR and by mass spectrometry. Moromycin B (2) showed significant cytotoxicity against H-460 human lung cancer and MCF-7 human breast cancer cells.
Streptomyces, glycosides, antibiotics, moromycins, saquayamycin B, fridamycin D
NCBI PubMed ID: 18666798Publication DOI: 10.1021/np800281fJournal NLM ID: 7906882Publisher: American Society of Pharmacognosy
Correspondence: jrohr2@email.uky.edu
Institutions: Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA
Methods: 13C NMR, 1H NMR, NMR-2D, IR, FAB-MS, DNA techniques, ESI-MS, HPLC, UV, extraction, optical rotation measurement, CI-MS, cell growth, HPLC-MS, cytotoxicity assay, antitumor activity assay, evaporation, centrifugation