Using the OSMAC (One Strain MAny Compounds) approach, the fungal endophyte Fusarium tricinctum was cultivated on fruit and vegetable juice-supplemented solid rice media. This led to an up to 80-fold increase in the accumulation of the new natural product fusarielin J (1), as well as to the induction of two new natural products fusarielin K (2) and fusarielin L (3) and the known derivatives fusarielins A (4) and B (5). Compounds 2-5 were not detected when the fungus was grown on rice media lacking either fruit or vegetable juice. The highest increase in the accumulation of compound 1 was observed in the presence of apple and carrot juice, whereas the stimulating effect was weaker for banana juice. Compound 1 exhibited cytotoxicity against the human ovarian cancer cell line A2780, with an IC value of 12.5 μM.

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Enniatins are cyclic depsipeptides produced by fungi of the genus Fusarium that are of interest due to their pronounced biological activities; especially enniatins A, A 1 , B, and B 1 possess anticarcinogenic and anti-HIV properties. In the present study, F. tricinctum was grown on seven solid media and in one liquid growth medium with or without addition of peptone or of amino acid precursors in order to identify favourable media with simple cultivation conditions for maximum enniatin production. Additionally, the optimal duration of growth was investigated for the highest yields of enniatins. From the different media analysed, white beans (Phaseolus vulgaris, solid medium) induced the highest accumulation of enniatins A, A 1 , B, and B 1 , that reached a maximum of 1,365 mg total enniatins in 1 L growth medium after 18 days of fermentation. Fermentation of F. tricinctum on white beans gave the highest yield of enniatins compared to all other media analysed in this study.

a b s t r a c tThe dimeric anthracene derivative torrubiellin B (1) was isolated from the endophytic fungus Acremonium sp. that had been obtained from leaves of the Mangrove plant Sonneratia caseolaris. The absolute configuration of 1 was established as (5 0 R,10 0 S,10a 0 R) for the first time on the basis of its electronic circular dichroism (ECD) spectra aided with TDDFT-ECD calculations. Torrubiellin B (1) exhibited strong anti-tumor activity when tested in vitro against several solid cancer cell lines including cells that are resistant against the widely used cytostatic drug cisplatin. The IC 50 values of 1 against cisplatin sensitive and cisplatin resistant cells were in the range of 0.2-2.6 lM depending on cell line investigated.

Chemical investigation of an unknown marine sponge, which was collected in the Gulf of Aqaba (Jordan), afforded a new brominated alkaloid 3-amino-1-(2-amino-4-bromophenyl)propan-1-one (1), as well as 7-bromoquinolin-4(1H)-one (2) which had previously only been reported as a synthetic compound. In addition, caulerpin (6), previously only known to be produced by algae, was likewise isolated. Furthermore, three known alkaloids including (Z)-5-(4-hydroxybenzylidene)-hydantoin, (Z)-6-bromo-3'-deimino-2',4'-bis(demethyl)-3'-oxoaplysinopsin, and 6-bromoindole-3-carbaldehyde (3-5), were also obtained. All compounds were unambiguously elucidated based on extensive 1D and 2D NMR spectroscopy, LCMS, as well as by comparison with the literature and tested for their cytotoxic activity toward the mouse lymphoma cell line L5178Y.

Enniatins are cyclic depsipeptides produced by fungi of the genus Fusarium that are of interest due to their pronounced biological activities; especially enniatins A, A1, B, and B1 possess anticarcinogenic and anti-HIV properties. In the present study, F. tricinctum was grown on seven solid media and in one liquid growth medium with or without addition of peptone or of amino acid precursors in order to identify favourable media with simple cultivation conditions for maximum enniatin production. Additionally, the optimal duration of growth was investigated for the highest yields of enniatins. From the different media analysed, white beans (Phaseolus vulgaris, solid medium) induced the highest accumulation of enniatins A, A1, B, and B1, that reached a maximum of 1,365 mg total enniatins in 1 L growth medium after 18 days of fermentation. Fermentation of F. tricinctum on white beans gave the highest yield of enniatins compared to all other media analysed in this study.

Absolute Configuration and Antitumor Activity of Torrubiellin B. -(PEREZ HEMPHILL, C. F.; DALETOS, G.; HAMACHER, A.; KASSACK, M. U.; LIN, W.; MANDI, A.; KURTAN, T.; PROKSCH*, P.; Tetrahedron Lett. 56 (2015) 30, 4430-4433, http://dx.Eng.) -Mais 45-221

Pestalpolyol I (I), pestapyrones A (IIa) and B (IIb), (R)‐periplanetin D (III), pestaxanthone (IV), and norpestaphthalide A (V) are isolated from Pestalotiopsis clavispora.