Three new peroxides from the sponge Plakinastrella species

J Nat Prod. 2001 Feb;64(2):262-4. doi: 10.1021/np000368+.

Abstract

Two new five-membered-ring peroxide acids, plakinic acid F (3) and epiplakinic acid F (4), and a new peroxide-lactone, plakortolide F (5), were isolated from a sponge of the genus Plakinastrella collected from Felicite Island, Seychelles. The structures were elucidated through spectral analysis. The free acids 3 and 4 exhibit moderate antifungal activity against Candida albicans with minimum inhibitory concentrations of 25 micrograms/mL (SDB) and 3.1 micrograms/mL (RPMI) for 3, and 25 micrograms/mL (SDB) and 6.25 micrograms/mL (RPMI) for 4, respectively. Both also showed moderate in vitro inhibition of Aspergillus fumigatus with IC90's of 25 micrograms/mL.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Isomerism
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  • Models, Chemical
  • Peroxides / chemistry
  • Peroxides / isolation & purification*
  • Porifera / chemistry*

Substances

  • Peroxides
  • epiplakinic acid F
  • plakinic acid F
  • plakortolide F