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SUBMITTER: Jayanetti DR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4380195 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of natural products 20141230 3
Studies of the coprophilous fungus Hypocopra rostrata (TTI-0009, NRRL 66178) isolated from a sample of horse dung collected in Texas led to the isolation of three new sesquiterpenoids that we named hypocoprins A-C (1-3), together with the known fungal metabolite helvolic acid. The new metabolites have a distinctive ring system consisting of fused cyclopropane and cyclodecene units not previously reported from a fungal source. Compounds 1 and 3 moderately inhibited growth of Staphylococcus aureus ...[more]