Beauvericin A is a cyclodepsipeptide and derivative of beauvericin originally isolated fromB. bassianathat has diverse biological activities.1,2,3It is active againstM. tuberculosis(MIC = 25 μg/ml) andP. falciparum(IC50= 12 μg/ml).2Beauvericin A is toxic to brine shrimp (LD100= 32 μg/ml).3 1.Gupta, S., Montillor, C., and Hwang, Y.-S.Isolation of Novel Beauvericin Analogues from the Fungus Beauveria bassianaJ. Nat. Prod.58(5)733-738(1995) 2.Nilanonta, C., Isaka, M., Kittakoop, P., et al.Antimycobacterial and antiplasmodial cyclodepsipeptides from the insect pathogenic fungus Paecilomyces tenuipes BCC 1614Planta Med.66(8)756-758(2000) 3.Shi, S., Li, Y., Ming, Y., et al.Biological activity and chemical composition of the endophytic fungus Fusarium sp. TP-G1 obtained from the root of Dendrobium officinale Kimura et MigoRec. Nat. Prod.12(6)549-556(2018)
(–)-β-Sesquiphellandrene, a sesquiterpene identified in Z. officinale, exhibits antiviral and anticancer properties. It effectively inhibits rhinovirus IB virus replication in a plaque reduction assay with an IC50 of 0.44 µM. Additionally, at a concentration of 10 µM, it demonstrates cytotoxicity to HCT116 cells.