Pestalotheols A-D ( 1- 4 ), four new metabolites, have been isolated from cultures of an isolate of the plant endophytic fungus Pestalotiopsis theae. The structures of these compounds were determined by NMR spectroscopy, and 1 is further confirmed by X-ray crystallography. The absolute configurations of compounds 1 and 3 were assigned by application of the modified Mosher method. Pestalotheol C...

First synthesis of diaportheone B, an antituberculosis agent isolated from endophytic fungus Diaporthe sp. P133 is reported using two complementary routes, a one step and a three-step sequence. The absolute configuration of diaportheone B was determined by using X-ray crystal structure analysis of its dibromo derivative. In addition, we have prepared several close analogues of diaportheone B an...

The medicinal plant Eupatorium arnottianum can be found in the Northeast and center of Argentina and the South of Bolivia. From plant material collected in Argentina an endophytic Phomopsis was isolated. The fungus was identified by microscopic features and analysis of its ITS sequence. Cultures yielded, besides mellein and nectriapyrone, a novel depsidone derivative for which we propose the na...

Four new meroterpenoids (2-5), along with three known analogues (1, 6, and 7) were isolated from mangrove plant Acanthus ilicifolius derived endophytic fungus Aspergillus flavipes. The structures of these compounds were elucidated by NMR and MS analysis, the configurations were assigned by CD data, and the stereochemistry of 1 was confirmed by X-ray crystallography analysis. A possible biogenet...

Metarhizium robertsii is a common soil fungus that occupies a specialized ecological niche as an endophyte and an insect pathogen. Previously, we showed that the endophytic capability and insect pathogenicity of Metarhizium are coupled to provide an active method of insect-derived nitrogen transfer to a host plant via fungal mycelia. We speculated that in exchange for this insect-derived nitrog...

An aquatic hyphomycete, Dwayaangam sp., was isolated from superficially sterilized black spruce (Picea mariana) needles submerged in aerated water in a small glass chamber (microcosm). The internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequence of this fungus and of a commonly encountered foliar endophyte isolated from P. mariana showed a high degree of similarity. When sporulation was induced in the microc...

Photinides A-F (1-6), six new unique benzofuranone-derived gamma-lactones, have been isolated from the crude extract of the plant endophytic fungus Pestalotiopsis photiniae. The structures of these compounds were elucidated primarily by NMR spectroscopy, and their absolute configurations were assigned by application of the CD excitation chirality method. Compounds 1-6 displayed modest cytotoxic...

Endophytic fungus Penicillium chrysogenum, a new source of hypocrellins Liyuan Meng , Peng Sun , Hua Tang , Ling Li , Siegfried Draeger , Barbara Schulz , Karsten Krohn , Hidayat Hussain , Wen Zhang *, Yanghua Yi a,** Research Center for Marine Drugs, School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, 325 Guo-He Road, Shanghai 200433, PR China b Institut für Mikrobiologie, Technische Unive...

The title compound, C(30)H(50)O(3), which was isolated from a marine endophytic fungus, is a new friedelan derivative. The mol-ecule contains five six-membered rings, which exhibit boat (ring A), distorted boat (ring B) and chair (rings C-E) conformations. The crystal structure is stabilized by inter-molecular O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, which link neighbouring mol-ecules into 12-membered rings.

Three new eremophilane sesquiterpenes (1-3) were isolated from the mangrove endophytic fungus Xylaria sp. BL321 together with 07H239-A (4), a known analogue of the new compounds. The structures of these compounds were elucidated by analysis of their MS, 1D and 2D NMR spectroscopic data. Compound 4 showed activation activity on α-glucosidase at 0.15 μM (146%), and then, 4 gradually produced inhi...