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- Title
Chemical, Bioactivity, and Biosynthetic Screening of Epiphytic Fungus Zasmidium pseudotsugae.
- Authors
González-Montiel, Gisela A.; Kaweesa, Elizabeth N.; Feau, Nicolas; Hamelin, Richard C.; Stone, Jeffrey K.; Loesgen, Sandra; Krug, Daniel; Keller, Lena
- Abstract
We report the first secondary metabolite, 8,8′-bijuglone, obtained from pure cultures of the slow growing Douglas fir- (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii) foliage-associated fungus Zasmidium pseudotsugae. The quinone was characterized using extensive LC/MS and NMR-based spectroscopic methods. 8,8′-Bijuglone exhibited moderate antibiotic activity against Gram-positive pathogens and weak cytotoxic activity in the NCI-60 cell line panel and in our in-house human colon carcinoma (HCT-116) cell line. An analysis of the fungal genome sequence to assess its metabolic potential was implemented using the bioinformatic tool antiSMASH. In total, 36 putative biosynthetic gene clusters were found with a majority encoding for polyketides (17), followed by non-ribosomal peptides (14), terpenes (2), ribosomal peptides (1), and compounds with mixed biosynthetic origin (2). This study demonstrates that foliage associated fungi of conifers produce antimicrobial metabolites and suggests this guild of fungi may present a rich source of novel molecules.
- Subjects
POLYKETIDES; DOUGLAS fir; GENE clusters; COLON (Anatomy); CELL lines; FUNGI
- Publication
Molecules, 2020, Vol 25, Issue 10, p2358
- ISSN
1420-3049
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/molecules25102358