Antimycobacterial Natural Products from Endophytes of the Medicinal Plant Aralia nudicaulis

Nat Prod Commun. 2015 Oct;10(10):1641-2.

Abstract

Antimycobacterial extracts of a Penicillium sp. (isolate HL4-159-41B) and a Coniothyrium sp. (isolate HL6-097-027B) isolated from the rhizomes of the Canadian medicinal plant Aralia nudicaulis were found to contain palitantin (1) and botrallin (2), craterellin C (3), mycosporulone (4), spiromassaritone (5), and massarigenin D (6) respectively. Bioassays against Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Ra revealed that 1 - 4 possess moderate antimycobacterial activity.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Antitubercular Agents / chemistry
  • Antitubercular Agents / pharmacology*
  • Aralia / microbiology*
  • Ascomycota / chemistry
  • Ascomycota / metabolism*
  • Endophytes / chemistry
  • Endophytes / metabolism*
  • HEK293 Cells
  • Humans
  • Molecular Structure
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis / drug effects*

Substances

  • Antitubercular Agents