5,7-Dihydroxyflavone (chrysin) (1) when fermented with fungal cultures, Aspergillus alliaceous (ATCC 10060), Beauveria bassiana (ATCC 13144) and Absidia glauco (ATCC 22752) gave mainly 4'-hydroxychrysin (4), chrysin 7-O-β-D-4-O-methylglucopyranoside (5) and chrysin 7-sulfate (6), respectively. Mucore ramannianus (ATCC 9628), however, transformed chrysin into six metabolites: 4'-hydroxy-3'-methoxychrysin (chrysoeriol) (7), 4'-hydroxychrysin (apigenin) (4) 3',4'-dihydroxychrysin (luteolin) (8), 3'-methoxychrysin 4'-O-α-D-6-deoxyallopyranoside (9), chrysin 4'-O-α-D-6-deoxyallopyranoside (10), and luteolin 3'-sulfate (11). Cultures of A. alliaceous (ATCC 10060) and B. bassiana (ATCC 13144) metabolized 5-hydroxyflavone (2) into 5,4'-dihydroxyflavone (12) and 4'-hydroxyflavone 5-O-β-D-4-O-methylglucopyranoside (13), respectively. 6-Hydroxyflavone (3) was transformed into 6-hydroxyflavanone (14), flavone 3-O-β-D-4-O-methylglucopyranoside (15) and (+/-)-flavanone 6-O-β-D-4-O-methylglucopyranoside (16) by cultures of Beauveria bassiana (ATCC 13144). The structures of the metabolic products were elucidated by means of spectroscopic data. The significance of the metabolites as antioxidants in relation to their structure is briefly discussed.
flavonoid, microbial metabolism, Beauveria bassiana, Aspergillus alliaceus, Absidia glauco, Mucore ramannianus
NCBI PubMed ID: 18379084Publication DOI: 10.1248/cpb.56.418Journal NLM ID: 0377775Publisher: Pharmaceutical Society Of Japan
Correspondence: ikhan@olemiss.edu
Institutions: National Center for Natural Products Research, The University of Mississippi, Mississippi, USA, Department of Pharmacognosy, Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, The University of Mississippi, Mississippi, USA
Methods: 13C NMR, 1H NMR, TLC, biological assays, FTIR, UV, extraction, optical rotation measurement, CC, HR-ESI-MS