Aurantoside L, a New Tetramic Acid Glycoside with Anti-Leishmanial Activity Isolated from the Marine Sponge Siliquariaspongia japonica.

A new tetramic acid glycoside, aurantoside L (1), was isolated from the sponge Siliquariaspongia japonica collected at Tsushima Is., Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. The structure of aurantoside L (1) composed of a tetramic acid bearing a chlorinated polyene system and a trisaccharide part was elucidated using spectral analysis. Aurantoside L (1) showed anti-parasitic activity against L. amazonensis with an IC50 value of 0.74 µM.

Total Synthesis of Aurantoside†G, an N-ß-Glycosylated 3-Oligoenoyltetramic Acid from Theonella swinhoei.

The first synthesis of a natural N-glycosylated 3-acyltetramic acid is reported. Aurantoside G (1 g), a deep-red metabolite of the marine sponge Theonella swinhoei, is highly delicate in the pure state. It features a chlorinated dodecapentaenoyl side chain at an l-asparagine-derived tetramic acid, the ring nitrogen atom of which is linked to a ß-configured d-xylose. The side chain was built through consecutive Wittig and HWE reactions and used to N-acylate the amino group of an asparaginate that had already been N-xylosylated through a Fukuyama-Mitsunobu reaction. This N-acylation step fixes the ß-configuration of the xylose, which is essential for the antifungal activity, but only if the sugar carries bulky, electron-rich protecting groups such as PMB. In the final step, the heterocycle was closed quantitatively through a basic Lacey-Dieckmann condensation of an entirely unprotected precursor.

Aurantoside K, a new antifungal tetramic acid glycoside from a Fijian marine sponge of the genus Melophlus.

A new tetramic acid glycoside, aurantoside K, was isolated from a marine sponge belonging to the genus Melophlus. The structure of the compound was elucidated on the basis of spectroscopic analysis (¹H NMR, ¹H-¹H COSY, HSQC, and HMBC, as well as high-resolution ESILCMS). Aurantoside K did not show any significant activity in antimalarial, antibacterial, or HCT-116 cytotoxicity assays, but exhibited a wide spectrum of antifungal activity against wild type Candida albicans, amphotericin-resistant C. albicans, Cryptococcus neoformans, Aspergillus niger, Penicillium sp., Rhizopus sporangia and Sordaria sp.

Aurantoside J: a new tetramic acid glycoside from Theonella swinhoei. Insights into the antifungal potential of aurantosides.

The chemical investigation of an Indonesian specimen of Theonella swinhoei afforded four aurantosides, one of which, aurantoside J (5), is a new compound. The structure of this metabolite, exhibiting the unprecedented N-α-glycosidic linkage between the pentose and the tetramate units, has been determined through detailed spectroscopic analysis. The four obtained aurantosides have been tested against five fungal strains (four Candida and one Fusarium) responsible of invasive infections in immuno-compromised patients. The non-cytotoxic aurantoside I (4) was the single compound to show an excellent potency against all the tested strains, thus providing valuable insights about the antifungal potential of this class of compounds and the structure-activity relationships.