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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
11
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-11-26
pubmed:abstractText
The isolation and structure determination of a new chlorinated benzophenone antibiotic, pestalone (1), is described. The new compound was produced by a cultured marine fungus only when a unicellular marine bacterium, strain CNJ-328, was co-cultured in the fungal fermentation. The fungus, isolated from the surface of the brown alga Rosenvingea sp. collected in the Bahamas Islands, was identified as an undescribed member of the genus Pestalotia. The structure of 1, initially assigned with only modest confidence by combined spectral and chemical data, was confirmed by single-crystal X-ray analysis. Pestalone (1) exhibits moderate in vitro cytotoxicity in the National Cancer Institute's 60 human tumor cell line screen (mean GI(50) = 6.0 microM). More importantly, pestalone shows potent antibiotic activity against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MIC = 37 ng/mL) and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (MIC = 78 ng/mL), indicating that pestalone should be evaluated in advanced models of infectious disease.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0163-3864
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
64
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1444-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11720529-Anti-Bacterial Agents, pubmed-meshheading:11720529-Antibiotics, Antineoplastic, pubmed-meshheading:11720529-Bahamas, pubmed-meshheading:11720529-Benzophenones, pubmed-meshheading:11720529-Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid, pubmed-meshheading:11720529-Crystallography, X-Ray, pubmed-meshheading:11720529-Drug Evaluation, Preclinical, pubmed-meshheading:11720529-Enterococcus faecium, pubmed-meshheading:11720529-Methicillin Resistance, pubmed-meshheading:11720529-Mitosporic Fungi, pubmed-meshheading:11720529-Molecular Structure, pubmed-meshheading:11720529-Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular, pubmed-meshheading:11720529-Phaeophyta, pubmed-meshheading:11720529-Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet, pubmed-meshheading:11720529-Staphylococcus aureus, pubmed-meshheading:11720529-Tumor Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:11720529-Vancomycin Resistance
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Pestalone, a new antibiotic produced by a marine fungus in response to bacterial challenge.
pubmed:affiliation
Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0204, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't