Two new sulfated triterpene glycosides, hemoiedemosides A (1) and B (2), have been isolated from the Patagonian sea cucumber Hemoiedema spectabilis. Their structures have been established by a combination of spectroscopic analysis (NMR and FABMS) and chemical transformations. Both glycosides present the same aglycon and differ in the degree of sulfation of the tetrasaccharide chain. Hemoiedemoside B (2) is a new example of a small number of trisulfated triterpene glycosides from sea cucumbers belonging to the family Cucumariidae. Glycosides 1 and 2 exhibit considerable antifungal activity against the phytopathogenic fungus Cladosporium cucumerinum, while the semisynthetic desulfated derivative 1a is less active.
The Patagonian nudibranch Tyrinna nobilis contains a number of terpenoids, the novel seco-11,12-spongiane tyrinnal (1) and the known sesquiterpenoids dendrolasin (2), pallescensin A (3), and dehydropallescensin-2 (4). The metabolites probably derive from dietary sponges, thus suggesting a parallelism between the ecological relationships of T. nobilis and those of mollusks of genus Cadlina. The structure of 1 was determined by spectroscopic methods.
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