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Planta Med. 2010 Feb;76(2):182-5. | Antibacterial compounds from mushrooms I: a lanostane-type triterpene and prenylphenol derivatives from Jahnoporus hirtus and Albatrellus flettii and their activities against Bacillus cereus and Enterococcus faecalis.[Pubmed: 19644795 ] | METHODS AND RESULTS: Antibacterial bioassay-guided fractionation of two American mushroom species, Jahnoporus hirtus and Albatrellus flettii, led to the isolation and identification of their major antibacterial constituents: 3,11-dioxolanosta-8,24( Z)-diene-26-oic acid (1) from J. hirtus and confluentin (2), grifolin (3), and Neogrifolin (4) from A. flettii. Compound 1 is a new lanostane-type triterpene. All purified compounds were evaluated for their ability to inhibit the growth of Bacillus cereus and Enterococcus faecalis using standard MIC assays. Compounds 1- 4 demonstrated MIC values of 40, 20, 10, and 20 microg/mL, respectively, against B. cereus and MIC values of 32, 1.0, 0.5, and 0.5 microg/mL, respectively, against E. faecalis.
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Thus, one novel compound and three others were shown to possess antimicrobial activities against these gram-positive bacteria employed as surrogates for more virulent and dangerous pathogens. | Bioorg Med Chem. 2006 Jan 1;14(1):164-8. | Grifolin derivatives from Albatrellus caeruleoporus, new inhibitors of nitric oxide production in RAW 264.7 cells.[Pubmed: 16169234 ] | METHODS AND RESULTS:
Two new farnesyl phenols named grifolinones A and B, together with known grifolin and Neogrifolin, were isolated from methanolic extract of the inedible mushroom Albatrellus caeruleoporus. Their structures were characterized by a combination of 2D NMR, MS, IR, and UV spectra.
CONCLUSIONS:
Grifolinone B was composed of two grifolin molecules, which were connected by a C-C bond.
Grifolinones A and B, grifolin, and Neogrifolin exhibited inhibitory activity against nitric oxide (NO) production stimulated by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in RAW 264.7 cells with IC50values of 23.4, 22.9, 29.0, and 23.3 microM, respectively. |
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