Isolation and structure determination of a new analog of polycavernosides from marine Okeania sp. cyanobacterium

• Kairi Umeda,
• Naoaki Kurisawa,
• Ghulam Jeelani,
• Tomoyoshi Nozaki,
• Kiyotake Suenaga and
• Arihiro Iwasaki

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 645–652, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.57

• polycavernosides. Keywords: macrolide glycoside; marine cyanobacterium; marine natural products; polycavernosides; terminal alkyne; Introduction In 1991, an outbreak of food poisoning caused by a species of red algae known as ‘Polycavernosa tsudai’ occurred in Guam, which resulted in killing of three people. Two

• novel macrolide glycosides, polycavernosides A (2) and B (3), were reported as the causative compounds for the illness [1]. After that, the second fatal food poisoning incidents occurred in the Philippines caused by the ingestion of polycavernoside A (2)-contaminated red algae [2]. Subsequently

• , polycavernoside analogs such as polycavernoside C (4) were isolated from red algae [3][4]. In 2015, Navarro et al. isolated polycavernoside D (5) from a marine Okeania sp. cyanobacterium [5]. They suggested that polycavernosides were produced by marine cyanobacteria based on their high content and structural