The solid-state cultivation of Acaulium sp. H-JQSF isolated from Armadillidium vulgare produces acautalides A–C
(1–3) as skeletally unprecedented
Diels–Alder adducts of a 14-membered
macrodiolide to an octadeca-9,11,13-trienoic acid. The acautalide
structures, along with the intramolecular transesterifications of
1-acylglycerols, were elucidated by mass spectrometry, nuclear magnetic
resonance, chemical transformation, and single-crystal X-ray diffraction.
Compounds 1–3 were found to be neuroprotective
with antiparkinsonic potential in the 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium-challenged
nematode model, with the magnitude impacted by the glycerol esterification.
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