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JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY
Volume 66, Issue 40, Pages 10490-10495Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.8b03573
Keywords
artemisinin; Aspergillus flavus; biotransformation; hydroxylation; antiplasmodial activity
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The biotransformation of the front-line antimalarial drug, artemisinin (1) by the filamentous fungus Aspergillus flavus MTCC-9167 was investigated. Incubation of compound 1 with A. flavus afforded a new hydroxy derivative (2) along with three known metabolites (3-5). The new compound was characterized as 14-hydroxydeoxyartemisinin (2) by extensive spectroscopic data analysis (IR, H-1 and C-13 NMR, HSQC, HMBC, COSY, NOESY, and HR-ESIMS). The known metabolites were identified as deoxyartemisinin (3), artemisinin G (4), and 4 alpha-hydroxydeoxyartemisinin (5). This is the first report of hydroxylation of a secondary methyl of artemisinin at C-14 by the fungus A. flavus, which is synthetically not accessible. In addition, these compounds were evaluated for their in vitro antiplasmodial activity. Artemisinin G (4) exhibited IC50 values in the submicromolar range, which was better than those of the nonperoxidic metabolites.
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