Abstract:
Chemical investigation on the rice culture of an endophytic fungus
Colletotrichum fioriniae F18, inhabiting in the stems of the medicinal plant
Mahonia fortunei, led to the isolation of nine compounds. They included a new indole alkaloid, makomotindoline B (
1), and two known indole derivatives, 3-indoleacetic acid methyl ester (
2) and
N-acetyltryptamine (
3), together with six known aromatic compounds, 2-(4-hydroxyphenyl) acetic acid (
4), 4-(2-hydroxyethyl)phenol (
5), 2-(4-methoxyphenyl)acetic acid (
6), 4-hydroxyphenethyl 2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)acetate (
7), regiolone (
8) and
N-phenethylacetamide (
9). The structures of these compounds were elucidated based on the analysis of spectroscopic data including MS and NMR. The absolute configuretion of compound
1 was determined by electronic circular dichroism (ECD) calculation. Antibacterial activity assay indicated that compounds
1-9 had no antibacterial activities against
Bacillus subtilis,
Staphylococcus aureus,
Escherichia coli, and
Pseudomonas aeruginosa, as well as no quorum sensing inhibitory (QSI) activity for
Chromobacterium violaceum.