Cycloheximide congeners produced by Streptomyces sp. SC0581 and photoinduced interconversion between (E)- and (Z)-2,3-dehydroanhydrocycloheximides

• Li Yang,
• Ping Wu,
• Jinghua Xue,
• Huitong Tan,
• Zheng Zhang and
• Xiaoyi Wei

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1039–1049, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.103

• important to the activities of cycloheximide congeners. Keywords: antifungal activity; cycloheximide derivatives; E/Z photoisomerization; Streptomyces sp; theoretical conformational analysis; Introduction The glutarimide-containing antibiotics represent a fascinating class of natural products that exhibit

• of cycloheximide derivatives (4 vs 6) [21][22], and suggested that 2,3-dehydrogenation might result in the loss of the activity (1 vs 5, 6). The cytotoxicity of these isolates against human lung epithelial carcinoma (A549), human cervical epithelial adenocarcinoma (HeLa), and human breast carcinoma

• findings suggested that these cycloheximide derivatives possibly exert the antifungal and cytotoxic activities via a similar mode of action. Conclusion Three new (1–3) and three known (4–6) cycloheximide congeners were obtained from the cultures of Streptomyces sp. SC0581. The structure elucidation of the