Microbial transformation of asiatic acid byAlternaria longipes
摘要:
Asiatic acid is a major pentacyclic triterpene isolated from Centella asiatica. It shows a variety of bioactivities. In order to obtain its derivatives, potentially useful for detailed pharmacological studies, the substrate was subjected to incubations with selected micro-organisms. In this work, asiatic acid was converted into three new compounds: 2,3,23,30-tetrahydroxyurs-12-ene-28-oic acid (1), 2,3,22,23-tetrahydroxyurs-12-ene-28-oic acid (2), and 2,3,22,23,30-pentahydroxyurs-12-ene-28-oic acid (3) by the fungus Alternaria longipes AS 3.2875. The structures of the three metabolites were determined by 1D and 2D NMR spectral data.