Bioactive Isoprenoid-Derived Natural Products from a Dongsha Atoll Soft Coral Sinularia erecta

J Nat Prod. 2016 May 27;79(5):1339-46. doi: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.5b01142. Epub 2016 May 4.

Abstract

Four new isoprenoids, including two norcembranoids sinulerectols A and B (1 and 2), a cembranoid sinulerectol C (3), and a degraded cembranoid sinulerectadione (4), along with three known isoprenoids, an unnamed norcembrene (5), sinularectin (6), and ineleganolide (7), and a known nitrogen-containing compound (Z)-N-[2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)ethyl]-3-methyldodec-2-enamide (8), were isolated from an extract of the marine soft coral Sinularia erecta. The structure of sinularectin (6) was revised, too. Compounds 3, 4, and 8 exhibited inhibitory activity against the proliferation of a limited panel of cancer cell lines, whereas 1, 2, and 8 displayed potent anti-inflammatory activity in fMLP/CB-stimulated human neutrophils.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Anthozoa / chemistry*
  • Anti-Inflammatory Agents / pharmacology
  • Biological Products* / chemistry
  • Biological Products* / isolation & purification
  • Biological Products* / pharmacology
  • Cyclooxygenase 2 / metabolism
  • Diterpenes / chemistry
  • Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor
  • Humans
  • Macrophages / metabolism
  • Marine Biology
  • Molecular Structure
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular
  • Terpenes* / chemistry
  • Terpenes* / isolation & purification
  • Terpenes* / pharmacology

Substances

  • Anti-Inflammatory Agents
  • Biological Products
  • Diterpenes
  • Terpenes
  • Cyclooxygenase 2