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ARCHIVES OF PHARMACAL RESEARCH
Volume 45, Issue 2, Pages 105-113Publisher
PHARMACEUTICAL SOC KOREA
DOI: 10.1007/s12272-022-01372-8
Keywords
Penicillium herquei FT729; Phenalenone derivative; Structural elucidation; ECD calculation; Indoleamine 2; 3-dioxygenase 1
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- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Korean government (MSIT) [2019R1A5A2027340, 2021R1A2C2007937]
- KRIBB Research Initiative Program [KGM5292113]
- Ministry of Science ICT (MSIT) of Republic of Korea
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Phenalenone derivatives sourced from fungi have diverse chemical structures and potential bioactivities. In this study, three new phenalenone derivatives were isolated from a Hawaiian soil fungus and their structures were determined. Compound 1 and compounds 5-7 exhibited inhibitory activity against IDO1, indicating their potential as anticancer immunotherapeutic agents.
Phenalenone derivatives sourced from fungi are polyketides that have attracted significant interest because of their diverse chemical structures and potential bioactivities. As part of our ongoing quest to discover novel natural products with biological properties from diverse natural resources, three unreported phenalenone derivatives (1-3), named ent-12-methoxyisoherqueinone (1), (-)-scleroamide (2), and (+)-scleroamide (3), together with four known phenalenone derivatives, ent-atrovenetinone (4), isoherqueinone (5), herqueinone (6), and ent-peniciherquinone (7) were isolated from the Hawaiian soil fungus Penicillium herquei FT729, collected on the Big Island, Hawaii. Compounds 2 and 3 were enantiomers, which were separated using a chiral-phase HPLC column, which provided optically pure compounds 2 and 3. The structures of the novel compounds were established by extensive spectroscopic analyses, including 1D and 2D NMR and high-resolution ESIMS. Their absolute configurations were determined using quantum chemical electronic circular dichroism (ECD) calculations. The inhibitory activity of the isolated compounds (1-7) against indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase 1 (IDO1) was assessed. Compounds 1, 5-7 inhibited IDO1, with IC50 values of 32.59, 36.86, 19.05, and 24.18 mu M, respectively. These findings demonstrated that the phenalenone derivatives 1 and 5-7, as IDO1 inhibitors, are promising anticancer immunotherapeutic agents.
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