Bioactive Natural, Biocatalytic, and Semisynthetic Tobacco Cembranoids

Abstract

The two major Nicotiana tabacum tobacco cembranoids, (1S,2E,4R,6R,7E,11E)-2,7,11-cembratriene-4,6-diol (1) and its C-4 epimer, exhibit a wide range of interesting biological activities. Although the tumorigenesis inhibition activity of tobacco cembranoids have been known since the mid 1980′s, only a limited number of investigations have targeted their optimization and structure-activity relationship. This study reports the isolation of the new (1S,2E,4S,6E,8S,11E)-2,6,11-cembratriene-8-O-methyl-4,8-diol (3) and the known (1S,2E,4R,6R,7E,11E)-2,7,11-cembratriene-4-O-methyl-4,6-diol (2) from fresh N. tabacum leaves. Cembranoid 2 showed good anti-migratory activity against prostate cancer cell lines, and was therefore subjected to microbial transformation and semisynthetic optimization studies. Biotransformation of 2 using the fungal strains Cunninghamella NRRL 5695 and Mucor ramannianus ATCC 9628 afforded new (4 and 5) and known (6 and 7) metabolites. Semisynthetic esterification, oxidation, epoxidation, and reaction with Lawesson's reagent afforded the new products 8–14. Cembranoid 2 and its epoxidation product 9 showed potent anti-migratory activities against the highly metastatic human prostate cancer cell lines PC-3M-CT⁺ (spheroid disaggregation assay) and PC-3 (wound-healing assay).

Key words

anti‐migratory - microbial transformation - Nicotiana tabacum - Solanaceae - prostate cancer - spheroid disaggregation - wound‐healing

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