Isolation and structure of prorocentrolide B, a fast-acting toxin from Prorocentrum maculosum

J Nat Prod. 1996 Nov;59(11):1010-4. doi: 10.1021/np960439y.

Abstract

A new toxin, prorocentrolide B (1), has been isolated following bioassay-guided fractionation of a BuOH extract of the tropical dinoflagellate, Prorocentrum maculosum Faust. This compound produces a rapid toxic response in the mouse bioassay, a type of activity not accounted for by other diarrhetic shellfish poisoning toxins produced by P. maculosum. The structure 1 was established by NMR and MS and is similar to prorocentrolide (2), a toxin from a strain of Prorocentrum lima. NMR data and the modeling program ConGen have been used to establish the relative stereochemistry of some individual ether ring systems and the hexahydroisoquinoline ring.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Carbohydrate Sequence
  • Dinoflagellida / chemistry*
  • Female
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  • Marine Toxins / isolation & purification*
  • Marine Toxins / toxicity
  • Mass Spectrometry
  • Mice
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Pyrans / isolation & purification*
  • Pyrans / toxicity

Substances

  • Marine Toxins
  • Pyrans
  • prorocentrolide B