A new pyranonaphthoquinone, actinoquinonal A, and its congeners from the combined-culture of Streptomyces sp. 23–50 and Tsukamurella pulmonis TP-B0596
摘要
The combined-culture of actinomycetes with mycolic acid-containing bacteria (MACB) Tsukamurella pulmonis TP-B0596 is a promising strategy to produce cryptic metabolites in actinomycetes. In this study, Streptomyces sp. 23-50 was identified as an appropriate strain for co-culturing with T. pulmonis TP-B0596 using on-gel combined-culture screening of 160 strains of actinomycetes. A new pyranonaphthoquinone, actinoquinonal A (1), along with two known congeners, compound 2 and mevashuntin (3), were isolated from the combined-culture of Streptomyces sp. 23-50 with T. pulmonis TP-B0596 based on global natural product social (GNPS) molecular networking. The planar structures of 1–3 were elucidated by analyzing 2D nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and LC-MS/MS spectral data, and the absolute configurations of 1 and 3 were unambiguously determined by comparing experimental and calculated ECD spectra. Moreover, the combined-culture characteristic metabolites, including 3, were enhanced when Streptomyces sp. 23-50 was cultured in the presence of pravastatin, an inhibitor of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase in the mevalonate pathway, suggesting that T. pulmonis TP-B0596 triggered a shunt in the mevalonate pathway of Streptomyces sp. 23-50. Notably, compounds 1 and 3 exhibited cytotoxicity against human cervical epithelioid carcinoma HeLa S3 (IC50 = 60.5 μM for 1, 0.67 μM for 3) and human colorectal cancer HT29 cells (IC50 = 101.9 μM for 1, 0.45 μM for 3).