Two novel glycosides, latrunculinosides A and B, containing substituted 2-oxecanones (decalactones) were isolated from Latrunculia corticata collected in the Gulf of Aqaba, Israel. They were characterized by spectroscopic methods, predominantly 1 H NMR,
13C NMR, MS, IR and UV, and by chemical degradation. Both glycosides contain unusual saccharides
IntroductionMarine sponges belonging to the class Demospongiae have been the subject of extensive chemical and biological investigations. Numerous bioactive peptides have been isolated and identified in sponges, [1] and the continued interest of chemists in these marine organisms has yielded a large number of non-nitrogen-containing metabolites.[2] Sponges have also proven to be a rich source of a broad spectrum of natural products containing macrolactones, with fascinating structures and different biological activities.[3Ϫ5] The first compounds in this group were halicholactone and neohalicholactone, fatty acid metabolites found in the sponge Halichondria okadai, collected off the coast of Japan. [6,7] Similar compounds, didemnilactones A and B or neodidemnilactone, [8,9] were isolated from the colonial Didemnum moseleyi near the Japanese Islands and asciditrienolide A [10] from a marine tunicate (ascidian) Didemnum candidum. The correct structure of asciditrienolide was reported a few years later.[11]Here we report the isolation of the ten-membered ring lactonic glycosides latrunculinosides A and B from the sponge Latrunculia corticata. These compounds were assigned the structures 1 and 10 on the basis of chemical and spectroscopic methods.
Results and DiscussionIn the course of our program devoted to the search for new compounds in marine animals [12,13] we found that ex- [a]