• Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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• v.48 no.1
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• pp.1-4
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• 2017

Four polyketides, tyrosol (1), (3R,4R)-(-)-4-hydroxymellein (2), (3R,4S)-(-)-4-hydroxymellein (3), and 1-phenyl-1,2-ethanediol (4) were isolated from organic extracts of cultures of an endophytic fungus Arthrinium sp. (JS420) isolated from stem of a halophyte Suaeda japonica Makico. Chemical structures of the isolated compounds were elucidated by comparison of their spectral data such as NMR and ESIMS with reported literature values. Among the isolated compounds, 3 and 4 were isolated for the first time from this fungus.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.985-987
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• 2010

The biological transformation of the bioactive dihydroisocoumarin, (-)-mellein, isolated from the marinederived fungus Cladosporium sp., was studied. The preparativescale culture of (-)-mellein with a marine isolate of a bacterium Stappia sp. resulted in the isolation of its oxidized metabolite, (3R,4S)-4-hydroxymellein. The stereostructure of the metabolite obtained was assigned on the basis of detailed physicochemical data analyses.