S - Curvularin is a macrocyclic lactone with cytotoxic activity. Curvularin inhibits cell division as well as expression of human inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), an enzyme critically involved in pro-inflammatory immune processes. Curvularin anti-inflammatory activity was demonstrated in chronic inflammatory disease models in mice such as Chronic Induced Arthritis (CIA) as well as in human alveolar epithelial A549/8 cells.
Curvularin is a macrocyclic lactone with cytotoxic activity.
Reconstitution
Soluble in DMSO (1 mg/mL), Chloroform (3 mg/mL) and Dichloromethane (3 mg/mL). Note: Insoluble in water.
Other Notes
Store the product sealed at −20 °C. Under these conditions the product is stable for at least 5 years.
Silica gel column chromatography (silica gel "L" II kind of activity 100/160 mkm) of the chloroform extract from the cultural filtrate of Penicillium sp. 10-51 gave two fractions (chloroform and chloroform-acetone, 5:1) having biological activity. Recrystallization yielded two compounds. On
Chondrocytes are important for the development and maintenance of articular cartilage. However, both in osteoarthritis (OA) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) chondrocytes are involved in the process of cartilage degradation and synthesize important immunomodulatory mediators, including nitric oxide (NO) generated by
The Journal of organic chemistry, 72(25), 9846-9849 (2007-11-09)
Concise and efficient total syntheses of 11-alpha-methoxycurvularin and 11-beta-methoxycurvularin were accomplished for the first time. The three-component linchpin coupling and intramolecular acylation reactions were key steps, in which we found the spectral data of 11-alpha-methoxycurvularin and 11-beta-methoxycurvularin, reported in the
Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry, 71(6), 1592-1594 (2007-06-26)
A concise synthesis of di-O-methyl-beta,gamma-dehydrocurvularin, the di-O-methylated derivative of the naturally occurring nematicidal macrolide, beta,gamma-dehydrocurvuralin, was accomplished by starting from a commercially available aromatic carboxylic acid in a three-step sequence consisting of esterification, Friedel-Crafts acylation, and microwave-promoted ring-closing metathesis.
The Journal of organic chemistry, 68(4), 1521-1528 (2003-02-15)
A concise total synthesis of citreofuran 4 is described, a structurally unique octaketide derivative belonging to the curvularin family. Key steps involve the elaboration of orsellinic acid methyl ester 5 to acid 14, which converts, on attempted formation of the
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