Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical 41(6):586-589, nov-dez, 2008 ARTIGO/ARTICLEA crescente urbanização proporcionou condições favoráveis para a propagação do Aedes aegypti, especialmente pelo uso intensivo de materiais descartáveis aumentando, assim, o número de criadouros potenciais para o mosquito vetor do flavivírus causador da dengue. O mesmo dissemina-se conforme a expansão do Aedes aegypti, que hoje ocupa praticamente toda a faixa cosmo tropical da terra. As epidemias, desencadeadas a partir de 1986 no Brasil, estão sempre relacionadas com a introdução de um novo sorotipo do vírus ABSTRACTThe objective of this study was to evaluate the potential of Anacardium humile (monkey nuts) against Aedes aegypti larvae. Hexane, ethanol and aqueous extracts and oil from leaves were obtained from plant material collected from the Brazilian savanna. These were tested at concentrations of 1%, 0.5%, 0.25%, 0.125%, 0.05% and 0.0125%, diluted in 1% dimethyl sulfoxide. The dead larvae were counted 24 hours later. The Probit analysis method was used to obtain the LC 50 and the respective confidence intervals. The conclusion was that only the oil extracted from Anacardium humile leaves caused 100% mortality among fourth-instar Aedes aegypti larvae, using concentrations of up to 0.125%. This seems to indicate that the active ingredients are present in the most apolar phase. This indicates that this plant has potential use as a larvicide against Aedes aegypti. However, new tests should be carried out using other plant organs, as well as using other methods and solvents for the extraction. . As falhas operacionais de campanhas no controle do Aedes aegypti e o aparecimento de populações resistentes aos inseticidas utilizados revelam a necessidade de mudanças nas ações de controle e no manejo dos produtos. Esta situação é Key

A screening was performed using nine marine-derived fungi as biocatalysts and the natural products (-)-ambrox® (1), (-)-sclareol (2), and (+)-sclareolide (3) in order to select the microorganisms able to catalyze the biooxidation of these compounds. It was observed that only the Aspergillus sydowii CBMAI 934, Botryosphaeria sp., Eutypella sp., and Xylaria sp. presented active oxidoreductases and catalyzed the regioselective hydroxylation in the natural products. The hydroxylated metabolites obtained were 1β-hydroxy-ambrox (1a) (14%, A. sydowii CBMAI 934); 3β-hydroxy-ambrox (1b) (17%, Botryosphaeria sp.; 11%, Eutypella sp.); 3β-hydroxy-sclareol (2a) (31%, Xylaria sp.; 69%, Botryosphaeria sp.; 55%, Eutypella sp.); 18-hydroxy-sclareol (2b) (10%, Xylaria sp.); and 3β-hydroxy-sclareolide (3a) (34%, Botryosphaeria sp.; 7%, Eutypella sp.). This is the first report of biohydroxylation of (-)-ambrox® (1), (-)-sclareol (2), and (+)-sclareolide (3) by whole mycelia of marine-derived fungi.

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