Unprecedented immunosuppressive polyketides from Daldinia eschscholzii, a mantis-associated fungus
Unprecedented immunosuppressive polyketides from Daldinia eschscholzii, a mantis-associated fungus
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来自螳螂相关真菌 Daldinia eschscholzii 的前所未有的免疫抑制聚酮化合物
DOI:
10.1002/anie.200801284
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发表时间:
2008-01-01
影响因子:
16.6
通讯作者:
Tan, Ren Xiang
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作者:
Zhang, Ying Lao;Ge, Hui Ming;Tan, Ren Xiang
Immunosuppressants are required for an array of medical purposes, such as organ transplantations and the treatment of autoimmune-associated diseases.[1–2] However, most of the currently available immunosuppressive drugs have been shown to inevitably possess severe adverse effects, such as hepatotoxicity, nephrotoxicity, and hypertension induction.[2] Therefore, there is an urgent need for new therapeutic agents for modulating the autoimmune response. Some microorganisms are a reliable source of immunocompromising compounds, as exemplified by the discovery of cyclosporinA (CsA),[3] rapamycin,[4] and FK506.[5] Symbionts, a diverse microbial community present in plants, insects, and mammals without the generation of any detectable symptoms, are receiving renewed attention for their production of chemically inspiring and biologically potent metabolites, presumably as a result of their long coevolution with hosts.[6] In particular, some insect-associated fungi might have acquired instinctlike capabilities for synthesizing immunoalleviating metabolites from their initial microbe–host interaction through to the final colonization.[7–9] In continuation of our characterization of new bioactive metabolites from endophyte cultures,[10–12] this observation tempted us to explore novel immunosuppressive metabolites that could be produced by fungi inhabiting healthy insect organs, such as the mantis gut, which is clearly an important entrance and shelter for symbionts (including quiescent pathogens [13]) and meal-carried “foreign” microbes.[14] As expected, a preliminary screen recognized the presence of an immunosuppressive substance or immunosuppressive substances in a culture of Daldinia eschscholzii IFB-TL01 residing in the gut of the mantis species Tenodera aridifolia, a common predator of many insects that feed on plants harboring endophyte. Subsequent bioassay-guided fractionation of the extract derived from the scaled-up fermentation of the fungus afforded two polyketides, dalesconols A (1) and B (2), which share an unprecedented carbon skeleton, together with the biosynthetically related intermediates 5 [15] and 8.[16] Optical resolution of 1 and 2 by HPLC on a chiral phase gave the corresponding enantiomers (+)-dalesconol A ((+)-1) and (À)-dalesconol A ((À)-1),(+)-dalesconol B ((+)-2) and (À)-dalesconol B ((À)-2). We report herein the isolation, structural and stereochemical elucidation, and immunosuppressive activity of the enantiomeric polyketides, as well as details of their biosynthesis.The first isolate, dalesconol A (1), was obtained as red crystals. A protonated molecular ion at m/z 463.1180 in its high-resolution ESI mass spectrum indicated a molecular formula that was in accordance with the 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopic data (m/z calcd for C29H19O6: 463.1176; see TablesS1 and S3 in the Supporting Information). The 1H NMR spectrum of 1 suggested the presence of an α, βunsaturated carbonyl group as well as one 1, 2, 3, 4-tetrasubstituted and two 1, 2, 3-trisubstituted benzene nuclei. This assumption was confirmed by the 13C NMR spectrum, which revealed additionally the existence of two further ketone groups and a fully substituted vinyl group, as well as a quaternary, a methine, and two methylene carbon atoms. These assigned fragments accounted in total for seventeen indices of unsaturation, with the rest having to be edited into four more rings in the molecule. Detailed interpretation of the 2D NMR spectra of 1 allowed the construction of the most likely planar structure of dalesconol A (1).