Duclauxin
Application Notes
Duclauxin is a dimeric oxaphenalenone isolated from Penicillium duclauxii by researchers at Tokyo University in 1965. The structure of duclauxin was determined by X-ray crystallography of bromoduclauxin. Duclauxin inhibits mammalian tumor cell line growth and appears to act as a potent uncoupler of oxidative phosphorylation. Duclauxin is a useful standard for chemotaxonomy of Penicillium and Talaromyces species.
References
- Duclauxin, a metabolite of Penicillium duclauxi (Delacroix). Shibata S. et al., Tet. Lett. 1965, 6, 1287.
- The crystal and molecular structure of monobromoduclauxin. Ogihara Y. et al., Acta Crystallogr. Sect. B: Struct. Crystallogr. Cryst. Chem. 1968, 24, 1037.
- In vitro effect of duclauxin and derivatives of coumarin on nucleic acid and protein synthesis in Ehrlich’s ascites carcinoma cells. Fusakova A. et al., Pharmazie 1977, 32, 291.
- Dereplication of microbial natural products by LC-DAD-TOFMS. Nielsen K.F. et al., J. Nat. Prod. 2011, 74, 2338.