Acremomannolipin A, the potential calcium signal modulator with a characteristic glycolipid structure from the filamentous fungus Acremonium strictum
摘要:
By the newly developed assay method, the glycolipid Acremomannolipin A (1) was isolated from a filamentous fungus Acremonium strictum as a potential calcium signal modulator. The structure of 1 elucidated on the basis of intensive spectroscopic analyses as well as its degradation studies is quite unique: the D-mannopyranose is connected to D-mannitol through a beta-glycoside linkage; all the hydroxyls in the mannose are highly masked as peresters with aliphatic acids, and this moiety is made hydrophobic, whereas the mannitol part exhibits a highly hydrophilic property. The compound (1) showed the characteristic bioactivity property, enabling calcineurin deletion cells to grow in the presence of Cl-, which would be caused by calcium signal modulating. The activity was so potent as to exert the effect at a concentration of 200 nM. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.