| Literature DB >> 20801038 |
E Paige Stout1, Jacques Prudhomme, Karine Le Roch, Craig R Fairchild, Scott G Franzblau, William Aalbersberg, Mark E Hay, Julia Kubanek.
Abstract
Three antimalarial meroditerpenes have been isolated from two Fijian red macroalgae. The absolute stereochemistry of callophycolide A (1), a unique macrolide from Callophycus serratus, was determined using a combination of Mosher's ester analysis, circular dichroism analysis with a dimolybdenum tetraacetate complex, and conformational analysis using NOEs. In addition, two known tocopherols, β-tocopherylhydroquinone (4) and δ-tocopherylhydroquinone (5), were isolated from Amphiroa crassa. By oxidizing 5 to the corresponding δ-tocopherylquinone (6), antimalarial activity against the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum was increased by more than 20-fold. Copyright (c) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20801038 PMCID: PMC2939151 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2010.08.031
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Bioorg Med Chem Lett ISSN: 0960-894X Impact factor: 2.823