Nong_2014_Mar.Drugs_12_6113

Seventeen lactones including eight territrem derivatives (1-8) and nine butyrolactone derivatives (9-17) were isolated from a marine-derived fungus Aspergillus terreus SCSGAF0162 under solid-state fermentation of rice. Compounds 1-3 and 9-10 were new, and their structures were elucidated by spectroscopic analysis. The acetylcholinesterase inhibitory activity and antiviral activity of compounds 1-17 were evaluated. Among them, compounds 1 and 2 showed strong inhibitory activity against acetylcholinesterase with IC50 values of 4.2 +/- 0.6, 4.5 +/- 0.6 nM, respectively. This is the first time it has been reported that 3, 6, 10, 12 had evident antiviral activity towards HSV-1 with IC50 values of 16.4 +/- 0.6, 6.34 +/- 0.4, 21.8 +/- 0.8 and 28.9 +/- 0.8 mug.mL-1, respectively. Antifouling bioassay tests showed that compounds 1, 11, 12, 15 had potent antifouling activity with EC50 values of 12.9 +/- 0.5, 22.1 +/- 0.8, 7.4 +/- 0.6, 16.1 +/- 0.6 mug.mL-1 toward barnacle Balanus amphitrite larvae, respectively.