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DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1298228
© Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York
Depsidones, Aromatase Inhibitors and Radical Scavenging Agents from the Marine-Derived Fungus Aspergillus unguis CRI282-03
Publication History
received Sept. 20, 2011
revised January 3, 2012
accepted January 12, 2012
Publication Date:
03 February 2012 (online)

Abstract
Three new depsidones (1, 3, and 4), a new diaryl ether (5), and a new natural pyrone (9) (synthetically known), together with three known depsidones, nidulin (6), nornidulin (7), and 2-chlorounguinol (8), were isolated from the marine-derived fungus Aspergillus unguis CRI282-03. Aspergillusidone C (4) showed the most potent aromatase inhibitory activity with the IC50 value of 0.74 µM, while depsidones 1, 3, 6–8 inhibited aromatase with IC50 values of 1.2–11.2 µM. It was found that the structural feature of depsidones, not their corresponding diaryl ether derivatives (e.g. 5), was important for aromatase inhibitory activity. Aspergillusidones A (1) and B (3) showed radical scavenging activity in the XXO assay with IC50 values of 16.0 and < 15.6 µM, respectively. Compounds 1 and 3–7 were mostly inactive or showed only weak cytotoxic activity against HuCCA-1, HepG2, A549, and MOLT-3 cancer cell lines.
Key words
Aspergillus unguis - Trichocomaceae - depsidones - aromatase inhibitor - radical scavenging activity - marine-derived fungi
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