Phytotoxic α-pyrones produced by Pestalotiopsis guepinii, the causal agent of hazelnut twig blight
Phytotoxic α-pyrones produced by Pestalotiopsis guepinii, the causal agent of hazelnut twig blight
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DOI:
10.1038/ja.2011.134
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发表时间:
2012-04-01
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
Vurro, Maurizio
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作者:
Evidente, Antonio;Zonno, Maria Chiara;Vurro, Maurizio
Pestalotiopsis guepinii (Desm.) is the fungal causal agent of the so-called ‘twig blight’, one of the most serious diseases of hazelnut (Corylus avellana L.) in Turkey, and one of the main causes of yield losses. P. guepinii has been also isolated from walnut (Juglans spp.) and gum mastic tree (Pistacia lentiscus var. Chia). Recently, the main lipophilic phytotoxic metabolite produced by P. guepinii in vitro culture was isolated and identified by spectroscopic methods as pestalopyrone (7), 1 a pentaketide already known as a minor toxin produced by Pestalotiopsis oenotherae. 2 When the fungus was grown on a different culture medium, 3 some fractions obtained by the purification of the culture filtrate, not containing pestalopyrone, proved to be phytotoxic. Their further purification yielded other two amorphous phytotoxic metabolites (1 and 6, Figure 1) that by preliminary spectroscopic experiments (including 1H and 13C NMR, IR and UV) appeared to be closely related to a-pyrones.Indeed 1 was identified as 6-(1-hydroxypentyl)-4-methoxy-pyran-2-one and showed optical rotation, IR, UV, 1H and 13C NMR spectra very similar to those previously reported in literature for the metabolite named PC-2 isolated from a Penicillium sp. 4, 5 The same a-pyrone (1) was successively isolated also from Galiella rufa together with (-)-gallielactone and its biogenetic precursor. 6 Penicillium nordicum, P. olsonii and P. verrucosum 7 and recently a marine-derived fungus Xylaria sp. PSU-F100 8 also showed to produce 1. The structure assigned to 1 was supported by the data observed in its COSY, HSQC and HMBC spectra (Table 1) as well as also by the data of the ESIMS. Beside both sodium clusters of the dimmer and the toxin itself, and the pseudomolecular ion observed at m/z 447 [2XM+ Na]+, 235 [M+ Na]+, 213 [M+ H]+, the ESIMS spectrum also showed the significant fragmentation peak [M+ Na-CO2]+ at m/z 191 generated from the sodium cluster by loss of CO2, which is a fragmentation