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Song H, Zhang Z, Cao C, Tang Z, Gui J, Liu W. Biocatalytic Steroidal 9α-Hydroxylation and Fragmentation Enable the Concise Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of 9,10-Secosteroids. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2024; 63:e202319624. [PMID: 38376063 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202319624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2023] [Revised: 02/15/2024] [Accepted: 02/20/2024] [Indexed: 02/21/2024]
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9,10-Secosteroids are an important group of marine steroids with diverse biological activities. Herein, we report a chemoenzymatic strategy for the concise, modular, and scalable synthesis of ten naturally occurring 9,10-secosteroids from readily available steroids in three to eight steps. The key feature lies in utilizing a Rieske oxygenase-like 3-ketosteroid 9α-hydroxylase (KSH) as the biocatalyst to achieve efficient C9-C10 bond cleavage and A-ring aromatization of tetracyclic steroids through 9α-hydroxylation and fragmentation. With synthesized 9,10-secosteroides, structure-activity relationship was evaluated based on bioassays in terms of previously unexplored anti-infective activity. This study provides experimental evidence to support the hypothesis that the biosynthetic pathway through which 9,10-secosteroids are formed in nature shares a similar 9α-hydroxylation and fragmentation cascade. In addition to the development of a biomimetic approach for 9,10-secosteroid synthesis, this study highlights the great potential of chemoenzymatic strategies in chemical synthesis.
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- Hanxin Song
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai, 200032, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai, 200032, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai, 200032, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai, 200032, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai, 200032, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai, 200032, China
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Marine Natural Products from the Beibu Gulf: Sources, Chemistry, and Bioactivities. Mar Drugs 2023; 21:md21020063. [PMID: 36827104 PMCID: PMC9965070 DOI: 10.3390/md21020063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2022] [Revised: 01/12/2023] [Accepted: 01/17/2023] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Marine natural products (MNPs) play an important role in the discovery and development of new drugs. The Beibu Gulf of South China Sea harbors four representative marine ecosystems, including coral reefs, mangroves, seaweed beds, and coastal wetlands, which are rich in underexplored marine biological resources that produce a plethora of diversified MNPs. In our ongoing efforts to discover novel and biologically active MNPs from the Beibu Gulf, we provide a systematic overview of the sources, chemical structures, and bioactive properties of a total of 477 new MNPs derived from the Beibu Gulf, citing 133 references and covering the literature from the first report in November 2003 up to September 2022. These reviewed MNPs were structurally classified into polyketides (43%), terpenoids (40%), nitrogen-containing compounds (12%), and glucosides (5%), which mainly originated from microorganisms (52%) and macroorganisms (48%). Notably, they were predominantly found with cytotoxic, antibacterial, and anti-inflammatory activities. This review will shed light on these untapped Beibu Gulf-derived MNPs as promising lead compounds for the development of new drugs.
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Wu ZW, Wang ZX, Guo YQ, Tang SA, Feng DQ. Antifouling activity of terpenoids from the corals Sinularia flexibilis and Muricella sp. against the bryozoan Bugula neritina. JOURNAL OF ASIAN NATURAL PRODUCTS RESEARCH 2023; 25:85-94. [PMID: 35243946 DOI: 10.1080/10286020.2022.2046562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2021] [Revised: 02/21/2022] [Accepted: 02/21/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Marine natural products are promising sources of green antifoulants. Here, a new compound (1) was isolated from the soft coral Sinularia flexibilis. This compound, another nine cembranoids (2-10) from S. flexibilis, and three eunicellin-type diterpenoids (11-13) from the gorgonian Muricella sp. were tested for antifouling activity against larval settlement of the bryozoan Bugula neritina. Compounds 2, 3, 4, 9, 12, and 13 exhibited significant antifouling activity, with EC50 values of 18.2, 99.7, 67.9, 35.6, 33.9, and 49.3 μM, respectively. Analysis of the structure-activity relationships suggested that the hydroxy group at C-13 in compound 4 reduced its antifouling activity.
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- Zhi-Wen Wu
- State-Province Joint Engineering Laboratory of Marine Bioproducts and Technology, College of Ocean & Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China
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- State-Province Joint Engineering Laboratory of Marine Bioproducts and Technology, College of Ocean & Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China
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- College of Pharmacy, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory on Technologies Enabling Development of Clinical Therapeutics and Diagnostics (Theranostics), School of Pharmacy, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 300070, China
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- State-Province Joint Engineering Laboratory of Marine Bioproducts and Technology, College of Ocean & Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China
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Savić MP, Sakač MN, Kuzminac IZ, Ajduković JJ. Structural diversity of bioactive steroid compounds isolated from soft corals in the period 2015-2020. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol 2022; 218:106061. [PMID: 35031429 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsbmb.2022.106061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2021] [Revised: 12/30/2021] [Accepted: 01/10/2022] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Marine soft corals are known as a good source of biologically active compounds, among which a large number of steroid compounds are identified. Structures and activities of these compounds have been used in drug discovery and development. From 2015 to 2020, 179 new steroid compounds were isolated from soft corals and structurally characterized. In this review, we report the structural classification and bioactivities of these compounds. The largest group of steroids from soft corals are hydroxysteroids, while the most common biological activity is anticancer. Besides, anticancer hydroxysteroids from soft corals exhibit anti-inflammatory and antibacterial activity. Unlike anticancer and antibacterial activity that can be observed in a number of steroid classes, antioxidant activity and antileishmanial effect were observed only in 19-oxygenated steroids, antiviral activity in pregnane-type steroids and spirosteroids, immunosuppressive activity in epoxy- and epidioxysteroids, and antibacterial activity in two steroid classes, hydroxysteroids and ketosteroids. This systematically analyzed link between the structure and activity of natural marine steroids is a good starting point for future drug design.
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- Marina P Savić
- Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovića 3, 21000, Novi Sad, Serbia
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- Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovića 3, 21000, Novi Sad, Serbia
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- Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovića 3, 21000, Novi Sad, Serbia.
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- Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovića 3, 21000, Novi Sad, Serbia
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Li J, Sun YL, Tang H, Su L, Zheng GL, Zhang W. Immunosuppressive 9,10-Secosteroids from the Gorgonian Verrucella umbraculum Collected in the South China Sea. JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS 2021; 84:1671-1675. [PMID: 33966392 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.1c00200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Four new 9,10-secosteroids, verrucellols A-D (1-4), together with 12 known derivatives (5-16) were isolated from the gorgonian Verrucella umbraculum collected in the South China Sea. The structures of the new compounds were established by spectroscopic analysis and comparison with reported data. These compounds exhibited significant suppressive effects on CD4+ T lymphocyte cell differentiation in an in vitro bioassay. This is the first report of 9,10-secosteroids exhibiting immunomodulation activity.
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- Jiao Li
- College of Pharmaceutical Science, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Gao-Ke Road, Hangzhou 311402, People's Republic of China
- School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, 325 Guo-He Road, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China
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- College of Pharmaceutical Science, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Gao-Ke Road, Hangzhou 311402, People's Republic of China
- School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, 325 Guo-He Road, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Translational Medicine, Shanghai University, 99 Shangda Road, Shanghai 200444, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Translational Medicine, Shanghai University, 99 Shangda Road, Shanghai 200444, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, 1665 Kong-Jiang Road, Shanghai 200092, People's Republic of China
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- College of Pharmaceutical Science, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Gao-Ke Road, Hangzhou 311402, People's Republic of China
- School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, 325 Guo-He Road, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China
- Tongji University School of Medicine, 1239 Si-Ping Road, Shanghai 200092, People's Republic of China
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Covering: 2016. Previous review: Nat. Prod. Rep., 2017, 34, 235-294This review covers the literature published in 2016 for marine natural products (MNPs), with 757 citations (643 for the period January to December 2016) referring to compounds isolated from marine microorganisms and phytoplankton, green, brown and red algae, sponges, cnidarians, bryozoans, molluscs, tunicates, echinoderms, mangroves and other intertidal plants and microorganisms. The emphasis is on new compounds (1277 in 432 papers for 2016), together with the relevant biological activities, source organisms and country of origin. Reviews, biosynthetic studies, first syntheses, and syntheses that led to the revision of structures or stereochemistries, have been included.
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- John W Blunt
- School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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Chu MJ, Tang XL, Qin GF, Sun YT, Li L, de Voogd NJ, Li PL, Li GQ. Pyrrole Derivatives and Diterpene Alkaloids from the South China Sea Sponge Agelas nakamurai. Chem Biodivers 2017; 14. [PMID: 28222487 DOI: 10.1002/cbdv.201600446] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2016] [Accepted: 02/17/2017] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Two pairs of new non-brominated racematic pyrrole derivatives, (±)-nakamurine D (1) and (±)-nakamurine E (2), two new diterpene alkaloids, isoagelasine C (16) and isoagelasidine B (21), together with 13 known pyrrole derivatives ((±)-3 - 15), five known diterpene alkaloids (17 - 20, 22) were isolated from the South China Sea sponge Agelas nakamurai. The racemic mixtures, compounds 1 - 4, were resolved into four pairs of enantiomers, (+)-1 and (-)-1, (+)-2 and (-)-2, (+)-3 and (-)-3, and (+)-4 and (-)-4, by chiral HPLC. The structures and absolute configurations were elucidated on the basis of comprehensive spectroscopic analyses, quantum chemical calculations, quantitative measurements of molar rotations, application of van't Hoff's principle of optical superposition, and comparison with the literature data. The NMR and MS data of compound 3 are reported for the first time, as the structure was listed in SciFinder Scholar with no associated reference. These non-brominated pyrrole derivatives were found in this species for the first time. Compound 18 showed valuable cytotoxicities against HL-60, K562, and HCT-116 cell lines with IC50 values of 12.4, 16.0, and 19.8 μm, respectively. Compounds 16 - 19, 21, and 22 showed potent antifungal activities against Candida albicans with MIC values ranging from 0.59 to 4.69 μg/ml. Compounds 16 - 19 exhibited moderate antibacterial activities against Proteusbacillus vulgaris (MIC values ranging from 9.38 to 18.75 μg/ml).
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- Mei-Jun Chu
- Key Laboratory of Marine Drugs, Chinese Ministry of Education, School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, P. R. China
- Laboratory of Marine Drugs and Biological Products, National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266235, P. R. China
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- Laboratory of Marine Drugs and Biological Products, National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266235, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Drugs, Chinese Ministry of Education, School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, P. R. China
- Laboratory of Marine Drugs and Biological Products, National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266235, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Drugs, Chinese Ministry of Education, School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, P. R. China
- Laboratory of Marine Drugs and Biological Products, National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266235, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Drugs, Chinese Ministry of Education, School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, P. R. China
- Laboratory of Marine Drugs and Biological Products, National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266235, P. R. China
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- National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, 2300 RA, The Netherlands
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Drugs, Chinese Ministry of Education, School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, P. R. China
- Laboratory of Marine Drugs and Biological Products, National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266235, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Drugs, Chinese Ministry of Education, School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, P. R. China
- Laboratory of Marine Drugs and Biological Products, National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266235, P. R. China
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