Recently, a rare class of nonribosomal peptides (NRPs) bearing a unique Oxepine-Pyrimidinone-Ketopiperazine (OPK) scaffold has been exclusively isolated from fungal sources. Based on the number of rings and conjugation systems on the backbone, it can be further categorized into three types A, B, and C. These compounds have been applied to various bioassays, and some have exhibited promising bioactivities like antifungal activity against phytopathogenic fungi and transcriptional activation on liver X receptor α. This review summarizes all the research related to natural OPK NRPs, including their biological sources, chemical structures, bioassays, as well as proposed biosynthetic mechanisms from 1988 to March 2020. The taxonomy of the fungal sources and chirality-related issues of these products are also discussed.
Five new polyketides were isolated
from the rare filamentous fungus Aspergillus californicus IBT 16748 including calidiol A
(1); three phthalide derivatives califuranones A1, A2, and B (2–4); and a pair of enantiomers (−)-calitetralintriol A (−5) and (+)-calitetralintriol A (+5) together
with four known metabolites (6–9).
The structures of the new products were established by extensive spectroscopic
analyses including HRMS and 1D and 2D NMR. The absolute configurations
of two diastereomers 2 and 3 and the enantiomers
(−5) and (+5) were assigned by comparing
their experimental and calculated ECD data, whereas the absolute configuration
of 4 was proposed by analogy. Compound 1 showed moderate activity against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus
aureus.
A chemical investigation of the filamentous fungus Aspergillus californicus led to the isolation of a polyketide− nonribosomal peptide hybrid, calipyridone A (1). A putative biosynthetic gene cluster cpd for production of 1 was next identified by genome mining. The role of the cpd cluster in the production of 1 was confirmed by multiple gene deletion experiments in the host strain as well as by heterologous expression of the hybrid gene cpdA inAspergillus oryzae. Moreover, chemical analyses of the mutant strains allowed the biosynthesis of 1 to be elucidated. The results indicate that the generation of the 2-pyridone moiety of 1 via nucleophilic attack of the iminol nitrogen to the carbonyl carbon is different from the biosynthesis of other fungal 2-pyridone products through P450-catalyzed tetramic acid ring expansions. In addition, two biogenetic intermediates, calipyridones B and C, showed modest inhibition effects on the plaque-forming ability of SARS-CoV-2.
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