Bioorganic Chemistry ( IF 4.5 ) Pub Date : 2018-10-17 , DOI: 10.1016/j.bioorg.2018.10.022 He Zhu , Dawei Li , Qingsong Yan , Yue An , Xiaokui Huo , Tianyuan Zhang , Mengyue Zhang , Chao Wang , Mingyu Xia , Xiaochi Ma , Yixuan Zhang
Cephalotrichum microsporum (SYP-F 7763) was a fungus isolated from the rhizosphere soil of traditional Chinese medicine Panax notoginseng. The EtOAc extract of Cephalotrichum microsporum cultivated on sterilized moistened-rice medium was separated by various chromatographic techniques, which yielded 11 metabolites (1–11) of this fungus. On the basis of the widely spectroscopic data, the chemical structures of isolated metabolites were determined, most of which were α-pyrones, including 5 compounds (4–7, and 10) unreported. In the anti-bacterial bioassay, compound 1 displayed significant inhibitory effects on three pathogenic bacteria, MR S. aureus, S. aureus, and B. cereus. α-Pyrones 2, 3, and 5–7 also displayed moderate inhibitory effects on MR S. aureus, S. aureus, and B. subtilis, which could be the major anti-bacterial constituents of Cephalotrichum microsporum. Additionally, compounds 1, 4, and 5 displayed significant cytotoxicity on five human cancer cell lines, with the IC50 values < 20 μM, which are more effective than positive control 5-fluorouracil. Therefore, α-pyrones were important secondary metabolites of Cephalotrichum microsporum, which displayed anti-bacterial and anti-tumor activities.