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Evidente A. Advances on anticancer fungal metabolites: sources, chemical and biological activities in the last decade (2012-2023). NATURAL PRODUCTS AND BIOPROSPECTING 2024; 14:31. [PMID: 38743184 PMCID: PMC11093966 DOI: 10.1007/s13659-024-00452-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/29/2024] [Accepted: 04/27/2024] [Indexed: 05/16/2024]
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Among microorganisms, fungi are the ones that have the most imagination in producing secondary metabolites with the most varied structural differences, which are produced through different biosynthetic pathways. Therefore, they synthesize secondary metabolites classifiable into numerous families of natural compounds such as amino acids, alkaloids, anthraquinones, aromatic compounds, cyclohexene epoxides, furanones, macrolides, naphthoquinones, polyketides, pyrones, terpenes, etc. They also produced metabolites with very complex structures that can not be classified in the known families of natural compounds. Many fungal metabolites show different biological activities with potential applications in agriculture, food chemistry, cosmetics, pharmacology and medicine. This review is focused on the fungal secondary metabolites with anticancer activity isolated in the last ten years. For some metabolites, when described, their biosynthetic origin, the mode of action and the results of structure activity relationships studies are also reported.
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- Antonio Evidente
- Institute Biomolecular Chemistry, National Research Council, Via Campi Flegrei 34, 80078 70125, Pozzuoli, NA, Italy.
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Liu X, Li K, Yu J, Ma C, Che Q, Zhu T, Li D, Pfeifer BA, Zhang G. Cyclo-diphenylalanine production in Aspergillus nidulans through stepwise metabolic engineering. Metab Eng 2024; 82:147-156. [PMID: 38382797 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2024.02.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2023] [Revised: 02/13/2024] [Accepted: 02/18/2024] [Indexed: 02/23/2024]
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Cyclo-diphenylalanine (cFF) is a symmetrical aromatic diketopiperazine (DKP) found wide-spread in microbes, plants, and resulting food products. As different bioactivities continue being discovered and relevant food and pharmaceutical applications gradually emerge for cFF, there is a growing need for establishing convenient and efficient methods to access this type of compound. Here, we present a robust cFF production system which entailed stepwise engineering of the filamentous fungal strain Aspergillus nidulans A1145 as a heterologous expression host. We first established a preliminary cFF producing strain by introducing the heterologous nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) gene penP1 to A. nidulans A1145. Key metabolic pathways involving shikimate and aromatic amino acid biosynthetic support were then engineered through a combination of gene deletions of competitive pathway steps, over-expressing feedback-insensitive enzymes in phenylalanine biosynthesis, and introducing a phosphoketolase-based pathway, which diverted glycolytic flux toward the formation of erythrose 4-phosphate (E4P). Through the stepwise engineering of A. nidulans A1145 outlined above, involving both heterologous pathway addition and native pathway metabolic engineering, we were able to produce cFF with titers reaching 611 mg/L in shake flask culture and 2.5 g/L in bench-scale fed-batch bioreactor culture. Our study establishes a production platform for cFF biosynthesis and successfully demonstrates engineering of phenylalanine derived diketopiperazines in a filamentous fungal host.
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- Xiaolin Liu
- Key Laboratory of Marine Drugs, Chinese Ministry of Education, School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, China; Department for Marine Drugs and Bioproducts, Laoshan Laboratory, Qingdao, 266237, China
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, 14260, United States.
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Drugs, Chinese Ministry of Education, School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China; Department for Marine Drugs and Bioproducts, Laoshan Laboratory, Qingdao, 266237, China; Lab of Marine Medicinal Resources Discovery, Marine Biomedical Research Institute of Qingdao, Qingdao, 266075, China.
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Wennrich JP, Sepanian E, Ebada SS, Llanos-Lopez NA, Ashrafi S, Maier W, Kurtán T, Stadler M. Bioactive Naphtho-α-Pyranones from Two Endophytic Fungi of the Genus Polyphilus. Antibiotics (Basel) 2023; 12:1273. [PMID: 37627693 PMCID: PMC10451773 DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics12081273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2023] [Revised: 07/29/2023] [Accepted: 07/31/2023] [Indexed: 08/27/2023] Open
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In the course of our survey to study the metabolic potential of two species of a new helotialean genus Polyphilus, namely P. frankenii and P. sieberi, their crude extracts were obtained using different cultivation techniques, which led to the isolation and characterization of two new naphtho-α-pyranone derivatives recognized as a monomer (1) and its 6,6'-homodimer (2) together with two known diketopiperazine congeners, outovirin B (3) and (3S,6S)-3,6-dibenzylpiperazine-2,5-dione (4). The structures of isolated compounds were determined based on extensive 1D and 2D NMR and HRESIMS. The absolute configuration of new naphtho-α-pyranones was determined using a comparison of their experimental ECD spectra with those of related structural analogues. 6,6'-binaphtho-α-pyranone talaroderxine C (2) exhibited potent cytotoxic activity against different mammalian cell lines with IC50 values in the low micromolar to nanomolar range. In addition, talaroderxine C unveiled stronger antimicrobial activity against Bacillus subtilis rather than Staphylococcus aureus with MIC values of 0.52 µg mL-1 (0.83 µM) compared to 66.6 µg mL-1 (105.70 µM), respectively.
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- Jan-Peer Wennrich
- Department of Microbial Drugs, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Inhoffenstrasse 7, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany; (J.-P.W.); (E.S.); (N.A.L.-L.)
- Institute of Microbiology, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Spielmannstraße 7, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Microbial Drugs, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Inhoffenstrasse 7, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany; (J.-P.W.); (E.S.); (N.A.L.-L.)
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- Department of Microbial Drugs, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Inhoffenstrasse 7, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany; (J.-P.W.); (E.S.); (N.A.L.-L.)
- Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University, Cairo 11566, Egypt
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- Department of Microbial Drugs, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Inhoffenstrasse 7, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany; (J.-P.W.); (E.S.); (N.A.L.-L.)
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- Institute for Epidemiology and Pathogen Diagnostics, Julius Kühn Institute (JKI)—Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Messeweg 11-12, 38104 Braunschweig, Germany; (S.A.); (W.M.)
- Institute for Crop and Soil Science, Julius Kühn Institute (JKI)—Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Bundesallee 58, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institute for Epidemiology and Pathogen Diagnostics, Julius Kühn Institute (JKI)—Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Messeweg 11-12, 38104 Braunschweig, Germany; (S.A.); (W.M.)
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Debrecen, P.O. Box 400, 4002 Debrecen, Hungary;
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- Department of Microbial Drugs, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Inhoffenstrasse 7, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany; (J.-P.W.); (E.S.); (N.A.L.-L.)
- Institute of Microbiology, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Spielmannstraße 7, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
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Tomohara K, Maneenet J, Ohashi N, Nose T, Fujii R, Kim MJ, Sun S, Awale S. Ugi Adducts as Novel Anti-austerity Agents against PANC-1 Human Pancreatic Cancer Cell Line: A Rapid Synthetic Approach. Biol Pharm Bull 2023; 46:1412-1420. [PMID: 37779042 DOI: 10.1248/bpb.b23-00224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/03/2023]
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Pancreatic cancer cells have an inherent tolerance to withstand nutrition starvation, allowing them to survive in hypovascular tumor microenvironments that lack of sufficient nutrients and oxygen. Developing anti-cancer agents that target this tolerance to nutritional starvation is a promising anti-austerity strategy for eradicating pancreatic cancer cells in their microenvironment. In this study, we employed a chemical biology approach using the Ugi reaction to rapidly synthesize new anti-austerity agents and evaluate their structure-activity relationships. Out of seventeen Ugi adducts tested, Ugi adduct 11 exhibited the strongest anti-austerity activity, showing preferential cytotoxicity against PANC-1 pancreatic cancer cells with a PC50 value of 0.5 µM. Further biological investigation of Ugi adduct 11 revealed a dramatic alteration of cellular morphology, leading to PANC-1 cell death within 24 h under nutrient-deprived conditions. Furthermore, the R absolute configuration of 11 was found to significantly contribute to the preferential anti-austerity ability toward PANC-1, with a PC50 value of 0.2 µM. Mechanistically, Ugi adduct (R)-11 was found to inhibit the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/protein kinase B (Akt)/mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling pathway preferentially under nutrition starvation conditions. Consequently, Ugi-adduct (R)-11 could be a promising candidate for drug development targeting pancreatic cancer based on the anti-austerity strategy. Our study also demonstrated that the Ugi reaction-based chemical engineering of natural product extracts can be used as a rapid method for discovering novel anti-austerity agents for combating pancreatic cancer.
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- Natural Drug Discovery Laboratory, Institute of Natural Medicine, University of Toyama
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- Graduate School of Science, Kyushu University
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- Faculty of Arts and Science, Kyushu University
- Graduate School of Science, Kyushu University
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- Natural Drug Discovery Laboratory, Institute of Natural Medicine, University of Toyama
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- Natural Drug Discovery Laboratory, Institute of Natural Medicine, University of Toyama
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- Natural Drug Discovery Laboratory, Institute of Natural Medicine, University of Toyama
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- Natural Drug Discovery Laboratory, Institute of Natural Medicine, University of Toyama
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Mermer A, Volkan Bulbul M, Mervenur Kalender S, Keskin I, Tuzun B, Emre Eyupoglu O. Benzotriazole-oxadiazole hybrid Compounds: Synthesis, anticancer Activity, molecular docking and ADME profiling studies. J Mol Liq 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2022.119264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Wang HN, Sun SS, Liu MZ, Yan MC, Liu YF, Zhu Z, Zhang Z. Natural bioactive compounds from marine fungi (2017-2020). JOURNAL OF ASIAN NATURAL PRODUCTS RESEARCH 2022; 24:203-230. [PMID: 34253101 DOI: 10.1080/10286020.2021.1947254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2021] [Accepted: 06/20/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Secondary metabolites generated by marine fungi have relatively small molecular weights and excellent activities and have become an important source for developing drug lead compounds. The review summarizes the structures of novel small-molecule compounds derived from marine fungi in recent years; introduces representative monomers in antimicrobial, antitumor, anti-viral, and anti-neuritis aspects; and discusses their biological activities and molecular mechanisms. This review will act as a guide for further discovering marine-derived drugs with novel chemical structures and specific targeting mechanisms.
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- Huan-Nan Wang
- School of Pharmacy, Jining Medical University, Rizhao 276800, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Jining Medical University, Rizhao 276800, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Jining Medical University, Rizhao 276800, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Jining Medical University, Rizhao 276800, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Jining Medical University, Rizhao 276800, China
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- College of Material Science and Engineering, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan 056038, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Jining Medical University, Rizhao 276800, China
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Kotoku N, Matsumoto H, Hisa T, Toda K, Ishida R, Setiawan A, Arai M. Fasciospyrinadinone and Fasciospyrinadinol, Novel 3-Alkylpyridine Sesquiterpenoids from an Indonesian Marine Sponge, as Selective Growth Inhibitors of the Cancer Cells under Nutrient Starvation. HETEROCYCLES 2021. [DOI: 10.3987/com-20-s(k)50] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Dai ZB, Wang X, Li GH. Secondary Metabolites and Their Bioactivities Produced by Paecilomyces. Molecules 2020; 25:E5077. [PMID: 33139652 PMCID: PMC7663581 DOI: 10.3390/molecules25215077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2020] [Revised: 10/23/2020] [Accepted: 10/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Paecilomyces, a common saprobic filamentous fungus, not only plays an important role in biological control, but also has applications in medicine, food, and environmental protection. In this paper, 223 secondary metabolites and their bioactivities from 13 known species and various unidentified strains of Paecilomyces are reviewed. Their structures can be described as polyketide, terpenoid, peptide, alkaloid, quinone, pyrone, sterol, and fatty acid. They have been demonstrated varying biological activities, including antimicrobial, antitumor, insecticidal, antiplasmodial, antimalarial, nematicidal, herbicidal, and enzyme-inhibiting. This review provides a comprehensive overview of secondary metabolites and their biological activities from strains of Paecilomyces.
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- Ze-Bao Dai
- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resources in Yunnan, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China;
- Key Laboratory for Microbial Resources of the Ministry of Education, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resources in Yunnan, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China;
- Key Laboratory for Microbial Resources of the Ministry of Education, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resources in Yunnan, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China;
- Key Laboratory for Microbial Resources of the Ministry of Education, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China
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