Aspartylglutamate is a precursor molecule. When it upon acetylation to N-acetyl-aspartyl-glutamate (NAAG) is used as a metabotropic glutamate mGlu receptor agonist.
(-)-Mycousnine is a microbial metabolite and derivative of usnic acid originally isolated fromM. nawaethat has antibacterial and antifungal activities.1,2It is active against the Gram-positive bacteriaB. subtilis,K. rhizophila, andS. aureus(MICs = 4, 8, and 4 g ml, respectively) but not the Gram-negative bacteriaE. coli,S. typhimurium, andK. pneumoniae(MICs = >128 g ml for all).2(-)-Mycousnine is also active against the fungiT. mentagrophytes,T. rubrum, andC. albicans(MICs = 25, 25, and 100 μg ml, respectively).1 1.Sassa, T., and Igarashi, M.Structures of (-)-mycousnine, (+)-isomycousnine and (+)-oxymycousnine, new usnic acid derivatives from phytopathogenic Mycosphaerella nawaeAgric. BioI. Chem.54(9)2231-2237(1990) 2.Lee, J., Lee, J., Kim, G.J., et al.Mycousfurans A and B, antibacterial usnic acid congeners from the fungus Mycosphaerella sp., isolated from a marine sedimentMar. Drugs17(7)422(2019)
Stachybotrysin B is a fungal metabolite originally isolated from S. chartarum and has antiviral and anticancer activities.1,2 It has antiviral activity against HIV in SupT1 cells (IC50 = 19.2 μM).1 Stachybotrysin B is cytotoxic to K562, HeLa, and HL-60 cells (IC50s = 21.72, 39.63, and 18.5 μM, respectively).2 |1. Zhao, J., Feng, J., Tan, Z., et al. Stachybotrysins A-G, phenylspirodrimane derivatives from the fungus Stachybotrys chartarum. J. Nat. Prod. 80(6), 1819-1826 (2017).|2. Ma, X.-h., Zheng, W.-m., Sun, K.-h., et al. Two new phenylspirodrimanes from the deep-sea derived fungus Stachybotrys sp. MCCC 3A00409. Nat. Prod. Res. 33(3), 386-392 (2018).
Aquastatin A is a fungal metabolite originally isolated fromF. aquaeductuumthat has diverse biological activities.1It is active againstS. aureus(MIC = 32 μg/ml) and inhibits enoyl-acyl carrier protein reductase (Fabl; IC50= 3.2 μM) andS. aureusfatty acid synthesis (IC50= 3.5 μM).2Aquastatin A also inhibits the Na+/K+-ATPase and H+/K+-ATPase (IC50s = 7.1 and 6.2 μM, respectively), as well as protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTP1B; IC50= 0.19 μM).1,3 1.Hamano, K., Kinoshita-Okami, M., Minagawa, K., et al.Aquastatin A, an inhibitor of mammalian adenosine triphosphatases from Fusarium aquaeductuum. Taxonomy, fermentation, isolation, structure determination and biological propertiesJ. Antibiot. (Tokyo)46(11)1648-1657(1993) 2.Kwon, Y.-J., Fang, Y., Xu, G.-H., et al.Aquastatin A, a new inhibitor of enoyl-acyl carrier protein reductase from Sporothrix sp. FN611Biol. Pharm. Bull.32(12)2061-2064(2009) 3.Seo, C., Soh, J.H., Oh, H., et al.Isolation of the protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B inhibitory metabolite from the marine-derived fungus Cosmospora sp. SF-5060Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett.19(21)6095-6097(2009)