There is considerable interest in the isolation of potent radical scavenging compounds from natural resources to treat diseases involving oxidative stress. In this report, four new fungal metabolites including one new bisdihydroanthracenone derivative (1, eurorubrin), two new seco-anthraquinone derivatives [3, 2-O-methyl-9-dehydroxyeurotinone and 4, 2-O-methyl-4-O-(α-D-ribofuranosyl)-9-dehydroxyeurotinone], and one new anthraquinone glycoside [6, 3-O-(α-D-ribofuranosyl)- questin], were isolated and identified from Eurotium rubrum, an endophytic fungal strain that was isolated from the inner tissue of the stem of the marine mangrove plant Hibiscus tiliaceus. In addition, three known compounds including asperflavin (2), 2-O-methyleurotinone (5), and questin (7) were also isolated and identified. Their structures were elucidated on the basis of spectroscopic analysis. All of the isolated compounds were evaluated for 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl(DPPH) radical scavenging activity.
anthraquinone, Mangrove plant, Hibiscus tiliaceus, endophytic fungus, Eurotium rubrum, radical scavenging activity
NCBI PubMed ID: 19652514Publication DOI: 10.4014/jmb.0805.342Journal NLM ID: 9431852Publisher: Seoul: Korean Society for Microbiology and Biotechnology
Correspondence: wangbg@ms.qdio.ac.cn
Institutions: Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Methods: 13C NMR, 1H NMR, gel filtration, NMR-2D, IR, TLC, HPLC, UV, extraction, HR-ESI-MS