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rings C and D were deduced to be the same as those of 10 on the
basis of their identical NMR data (Adelin et al., 2014), which were
supported by NOE correlations of H-14 with H-7b, H-15a, and Me-
16 and of H-5 with H-15b (Fig. 3). Me-19 was syn to H-4a, H-5, and
H-15b by its NOE correlations with them, while the relative
configuration of H-11 was oriented by its different splitting pattern
and chemical shift from those of 9-harzien-11-ol (Adelin et al.,
2014). The ECD spectrum displayed a positive Cotton effect at
291 nm, which was then computed with the TD-DFT method at the
gas-phase B3LYP/6-31G(d) level in Gaussian 09 software (Frisch
et al., 2010). The result was drawn by SpecDis software with
sigma ¼ 0.2 (Bruhn et al., 2011), and it agreed well with the
experimental one (Fig. 5). Thus, the absolute configuration of 9 was
assigned to be 2S, 5R, 6R, 11R, 13S, and 15S.
inhibit some marine-derived Vibrio species, and the effects of 2 and
3 might relate to their aminoglycoside moiety.
4. Experimental section
4.1. General experimental procedures
Optical rotations were determined on a JASCO P-1020 polar-
imeter and an SGW-3 polarimeter. ECD spectra were measured on a
Chirascan CD spectrometer. IR spectra were obtained on a JASCO FT/
IR-4100 spectrometer. NMR spectra were recorded on a Bruker
Avance III 500 NMR spectrometer (500 and 125 MHz for 1H and 13C,
respectively) using tetramethylsilane (TMS) as an internal standard.
Low and high resolution EI mass spectra were acquired on an
Autospec Premier P776 mass spectrometer with a double-focusing
magnetic sector mass analyzer. HPLC separation was operated on
an Agilent HPLC system (1260 infinity quaternary pump, 1260 in-
In order to develop new inhibitors against pathogenic bacteria
that greatly threatened marine aquaculture, compounds 1e4 were
assayed for inhibition of five aquatic pathogens (Vibrio para-
haemolyticus, V. anguillarum, V. harveyi, V. splendidus, and Pseu-
finity diode-array detector) using an Eclipse SB-C18 (5 mm,
doalteromonas citrea) using the disk diffusion method at 20
m
g/disk
9.4 ꢁ 250 mm) column. Column chromatography (CC) was per-
formed with silica gel (200e300 mesh, Qingdao Haiyang Chemical
Co.), RP-18 (AAG12S50, YMC Co., Ltd.), and Sephadex LH-20 (GE
Healthcare). Thin-layer chromatography (TLC) was carried out with
precoated silica gel plates (GF-254, Qingdao Haiyang Chemical Co.).
Quantum chemical calculations were run with Gaussian 09 soft-
ware (IA32W-G09RevC.01).
(Miao et al., 2012), and chloramphenicol with inhibitory zone di-
ameters of 19.7,18.2,17.9,18.7, and 19.7 mm, respectively, was taken
as a positive control. Among them, only 2 and 3 showed potent
inhibition (6.1e6.4 mm zones) of the four Vibrio bacteria tested
(Table S1), which might correlate with the 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-
a-
D-glucopyranosyl group. Compounds 5e9 were assayed for inhi-
bition of V. parahaemolyticus and P. citrea, and only 8 and 9 showed
inhibition of V. parahaemolyticus, each with a 6.2 mm zone. Addi-
tionally, compounds 1e9 were evaluated for toxicity to the
zooplankton Artemia salina using K2CrO7 as a positive control (100%
lethal rate), but they exhibited only 52.2e78.7% lethal rates at
4.2. Fungal material and fermentation
Following a previous procedure (Wang et al., 2006), Trichoderma
asperellum Samuels, Lieckfeldt & Nirenberg cf44-2 (Moniliaceae) as
an endophyte was isolated from the fresh tissue of the surface-
sterilized brown alga Sargassum sp. (Sargassaceae) collected from
Zhoushan Islands (N30ꢂ0102000, E122ꢂ0501400) of China in August
2010. The species was identified by morphological taxonomy and
by analysis of the ITS regions of its rDNA, deposited at GenBank
(accession no. MG696741). Its fermentation was performed stati-
cally at room temperature for 30 days in 200 ꢁ 1 L Erlenmeyer
flasks, each containing 300 mL of media prepared by addition of
500 mL potato (200 g) broth, 20 g glucose, 5 g peptone, and 5 g
yeast extract powder into 500 mL natural seawater from the coast
of Yantai.
100 mg/mL.
3. Conclusion
Chemical investigation towards Trichoderma asperellum cf44-2,
an endophyte of the marine brown alga Sargassum sp., resulted in
the isolation and identification of ten terpenes, comprising three
undescribed bisabolane derivatives (1e3), three undescribed
cyclonerane sesquiterpenes (6e8), and one undescribed harziane
diterpene (9). Among them, compound 1 possesses an undescribed
ethylated bisabolane framework, while 2 and 3 represent the first
aminoglycosides of bisabolane and norbisabolane sesquiterpenes,
respectively. The bioassay results showed that 2, 3, 8, and 9 could
4.3. Extraction and isolation
The mycelia were collected by filtration, which were then dried
in the shade and exhaustively extracted with CH2Cl2 and MeOH
(1:1, v/v). After removing organic solvents by evaporation under
vacuum, the residue was partitioned between EtOAc and H2O to
give an EtOAc-soluble extract (52.4 g). The filtrate was directly
extracted with EtOAc and then concentrated to afford an extract
(31.3 g). In view of the identical TLC profiles, these two parts were
combined and then subjected to silica gel CC with step-gradient
solvent systems consisting of petroleum ether (PE)/EtOAc and
CH2Cl2/MeOH to yield 12 fractions (Frs. 1e12). Fr. 3 eluted with PE/
EtOAc (5:1) and was further purified by CC on RP-18 (MeOH/H2O,
3:1) and Sephadex LH-20 (MeOH) and preparative TLC (PE/EtOAc,
2:1) to produce 4 (2.6 mg). Fr. 4 eluted with PE/EtOAc (2:1) and was
further purified by CC on RP-18 (MeOH/H2O, 7:3) and Sephadex LH-
20 (MeOH) and preparative TLC (PE/EtOAc, 1:1) to yield 10
(12.8 mg). Fr. 7 eluted with PE/EtOAc (1:1) and was further purified
by RP-18 CC (MeOH/H2O, 7:3) and preparative TLC (CH2Cl2/MeOH,
30:1) as well as semipreparative HPLC (MeOH/H2O, 3:7 to 4:1) to
afford 1 (1.0 mg), 5 (4.8 mg), and 9 (3.4 mg). Fr. 9 eluted with EtOAc
and was further purified by RP-18 CC (MeOH/H2O, 3:7 to 2:3) and
preparative TLC (EtOAc) as well as semipreparative HPLC (MeOH/
Fig. 5. Experimental and calculated ECD spectra of 9.