Jugiones A-D: Antibacterial Xanthone-Anthraquinone Heterodimers from Australian Soil-Derived Penicillium shearii CMB-STF067.

ABSTRACT: The Australian roadside soil-derived fungus Penicillium shearii CMB-STF067 was prioritized for chemical investigation based on an SDA cultivation extract exhibiting both antibacterial properties and natural products with unprecedented molecular formulae (GNPS). Subsequent miniaturized 24-well plate cultivation profiling (MATRIX) identified red rice as optimal for the production of the target chemistry, with scaled-up cultivation, extraction and fractionation yielding four new xanthone-anthraquinone heterodimers, jugiones A-D (1-4), whose structures were assigned by detailed spectroscopic analysis and biosynthetic considerations. Of note, where 1-2 and 4 were active against the Gram-positive bacteria vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis

SUBMITTER: Sritharan T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10812710 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature