Abstract
A new staurosporine analog, 10′-{5″-[(methoxycarbonyl)amino]-2″-methyl}-phenylaminocarbonylstaurosporine (1), together with staurosporine (2), was obtained from the culture broth of Actinomycetes Streptomyces sp. (172614). Their structures were elucidated by comprehensive spectroscopic analysis including UV, MS, NMR, and CD spectra. Pharmacological experiments revealed that 1 and 2 showed significant cytotoxicity against human colon tumor cell HCT-116.
Acknowledgements
The authors are grateful to Mr Zhen-Qiang Mu and Miss Yuan-Fan Huang for NMR measurements, Ms Ming-Yan Liu for MS measurements, Mrs Hui-Nan Zhao for HR-ESI-MS measurements. This work was financially supported by grants from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2009CB522300, and 2009ZX09302-004), and the Ministry of Education of China/Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation (121039).