- Le, Tu Cam;
- Lee, Eun Ju;
- Lee, Jihye;
- Hong, Ahreum;
- Yim, Chae-Yoon;
- Yang, Inho;
- Choi, Hyukjae;
- Chin, Jungwook;
- Cho, Sung Jin;
- Ko, Jaeyoung;
- Hwang, Hayoung;
- Nam, Sang-Jip;
- Fenical, William
A cytotoxic alkaloidal meroterpenoid, saccharoquinoline (1), has been isolated from the fermentation broth of the marine-derived bacterium Saccharomonospora sp. CNQ-490. The planar structure of 1 was elucidated by 1D, 2D NMR, and MS spectroscopic data analyzes, while the relative configuration of 1 was defined through the interpretation of NOE spectroscopic data. Saccharoquinoline (1) is composed of a drimane-type sesquiterpene unit in combination with an apparent 6,7,8-trihydroxyquinoline-2-carboxylic acid. This combination of biosynthetic pathways was observed for the first time in natural microbial products. Saccharoquinoline (1) was found to have cytotoxicity against the HCT-116 cancer cell line by inducing G1 arrest, which leads to cell growth inhibition.