Abstract:
Thirteen compounds (
1-13) were isolated from the ethanol extract of an endophytic fungus
Cercophora sp. UJN-EF001 derived from
Vaccinium bracteatum, using normal-phase silica gel column chromatography (CC), reversed-phase C
18 CC and high-performance liquid chromatography. The structures of these isolates were elucidated through spectroscopic methods including high-resolution mass spectrometry, nuclear magnetic resonance and electronic circular dichroism. Among them, two (
1 and
2) were previously unreported molecules, two (
3 and
4) were obtained for the first time as natural products, and nine (
5-13) were isolated for the first time from the genus
Cercophora. All 13 compounds were evaluated for their inhibitory activities against
α-glucosidase and nitric oxide (NO) production. As a result, none of them exhibited significant inhibition toward
α-glucosidase, while compound
13 displayed moderate inhibition against lipopolysaccharide-induced release of NO in RAW264.7 macrophages with an IC
50 value of 34.3 ± 3.8 μmol·L
-1.