Stereochemical determination and bioactivity assessment of (S)-(+)-curcuphenol dimers isolated from the marine sponge Didiscus aceratus and synthesized through laccase biocatalysis

Bioorg Med Chem. 2005 Oct 1;13(19):5600-12. doi: 10.1016/j.bmc.2005.06.020.

Abstract

Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry-guided isolation of extracts from Didiscus aceratus led to the discovery of several new derivatives of the bioactive bisabolene-type sponge metabolite (S)-(+)-curcuphenol (1). The compounds obtained by this method included a mixture of known (2) and new (3) dihydroxylated analogs as well as a novel family of dimeric derivatives, dicurcuphenols A-E (4-8), and dicurcuphenol ether F (9). Dimers 4-9 were also subsequently obtained through a hemisynthetic method in which 1 was incubated with the enzyme laccase. Atropisomeric dimers 5 and 6 were subjected to vibrational circular dichroism analysis thereby establishing their absolute biaryl axial chirality as P and M, respectively. In contrast to 1, metabolites 2-9 exhibited weak or no cytotoxic or lipoxygenase inhibitory effects.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Catalysis
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • Cell Proliferation / drug effects
  • Crystallography, X-Ray
  • Dimerization
  • Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor
  • Humans
  • Laccase / chemistry*
  • Lipoxygenase Inhibitors
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / methods
  • Models, Molecular
  • Molecular Conformation
  • Porifera / chemistry*
  • Sesquiterpenes* / chemical synthesis
  • Sesquiterpenes* / isolation & purification
  • Sesquiterpenes* / pharmacology
  • Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization / methods
  • Stereoisomerism
  • Structure-Activity Relationship

Substances

  • Lipoxygenase Inhibitors
  • Sesquiterpenes
  • curcuphenol
  • Laccase