Cytotoxic dimeric epipolythiodiketopiperazines from the ascomycetous fungus Preussia typharum

J Nat Prod. 2014 Jun 27;77(6):1459-66. doi: 10.1021/np5002253. Epub 2014 Jun 3.

Abstract

Two new dimeric epipolythiodiketopiperazines, preussiadins A (1) and B (2), together with two known diastereomers, leptosins C (6) and A (7), were obtained from the mycelia of a Preussia typharum isolate. The structures of the new compounds were established by spectroscopic methods, and the absolute configurations of 1 and 2 were assigned by chemical transformations and comparisons of quantum chemical ECD and VCD calculations to experimental data. Compound 1 exhibited potent cytotoxic activity in the NCI-60 cell line panel with an average LC50 value of 251 nM. Further studies demonstrated that 1 circumvents P-glycoprotein-mediated drug resistance, yet had no significant antitumor activity in a xenograft UACC-62 melanoma model.

Publication types

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

MeSH terms

  • ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 1 / pharmacology
  • Animals
  • Antineoplastic Agents / chemistry
  • Antineoplastic Agents / isolation & purification*
  • Antineoplastic Agents / pharmacology*
  • Ascomycota / chemistry*
  • Disease Models, Animal
  • Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor
  • Humans
  • Melanoma / pathology
  • Molecular Structure
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular
  • Piperazines / chemistry
  • Piperazines / isolation & purification*
  • Piperazines / pharmacology*

Substances

  • ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 1
  • Antineoplastic Agents
  • Piperazines
  • epipolythiodiketopiperazine
  • preussiadin A
  • preussiadin B