文摘
Parallel chemical and phylogenetic investigation of a marine cyanobacterium from Panama led to the isolation of two new PKS-NRPS-derived compounds, viridamides A and B. Their structures were determined by NMR and mass spectroscopic methods, and the absolute configurations assigned by Marfey’s method and chiral HPLC analysis. In addition to six standard, <i>Ni>-methylated amino and hydroxy acids, these metabolites contained the structurally novel 5-methoxydec-9-ynoic acid moiety and an unusual proline methyl ester terminus. Morphologically, this cyanobacterium was identified as <i>Oscillatoria nigro-viridisi>, and its 16S rDNA sequence is reported here for the first time. Phylogenetic analysis of these sequence data has identified <i>O. nigro-viridisi> strain OSC3L to be closely related to two other marine cyanobacterial genera, <i>Trichodesmiumi> and <i>Blennothrixi>. Viridamide A showed antitrypanosomal activity with an IC50 of 1.1 μM and antileishmanial activity with an IC50 of 1.5 μM.