Bioactive extracts and chemical constituents of two endophytic strains of Fusarium oxysporum
Published: April 19, 2018
By: Andréa M. do Nascimento 1, Raphael Conti 2, Izabel C. C. Turatti 3, Bruno C. Cavalcanti 4, Letícia V. Costa-Lotufo 4, Cláudia Pessoa 4, Manoel O. de Moraes 4, Viviane Manfrim 2, Juliano S. Toledo 5, Angela K. Cruz 5, Mônica T. Pupo 2.
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1 Departamento de Química, Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brazil; 2 Departamento de Ciências Farmacêuticas, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil; 3 Departamento de Física e Química, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil; 4 Departamento de Fisiologia e Farmacologia, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil; 5 Departamento de Biologia Celular e Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.
Abstract:
Ethyl acetate extracts of cultures grown in liquid Czapek and on solid rice media of the fungal endophyte Fusarium oxysporum SS46 isolated from the medicinal plant Smallanthus sonchifolius (Poepp.) H. Rob., Asteraceae, exhibited considerable cytotoxic activity when tested in vitro against human cancer cells. Chromatographic separation yielded anhydrofusarubin (1) and beauvericin (2) that were identified based on their 1H and 13C NMR data. Compounds 1 and 2 showed the strongest cytotoxic activity against different cancer cell lines. Compound 2 also showed promising activity against Leishmania braziliensis. Hexanic extract of F. oxysporum SS50 grown on solid rice media also afforded a mixture of compounds that displayed cytotoxic activity against different cancer cell lines. Chemical analysis of the mixture of compounds, investigated by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), showed that there was a predominance of methyl esters of fatty acids and alkanes.
Keywords: beauvericin, citotoxic activity, endophytic fungus, Fusarium oxysporum, Leishmania braziliensis.
Abstract published in Revista Brasileira de Farmacognosia Brazilian Journal of Pharmacognosy 22(6): 1276-1281, Nov./Dec. 2012.
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