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Hyporientalin A, an anti-Candida peptaibol from a marine Trichoderma orientale

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A Trichoderma orientale strain LSBA1 was isolated from the Mediterranean marine sponge Cymbaxinella damicornis. The crude extract of T. orientale mycelium showed inhibitory activity against growth of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria as well as clinical isolates of Candida albicans. Purification of the anti-Candida component was performed using a combination of open silica gel-60 column and reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography. The active compound called hyporientalin A has been identified as a peptaibol analogue of longibrachin-A-II using mass spectrometry. It exhibited fungicidal activity against clinical isolates of C. albicans with minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs) ranging from 2.49 to 19.66 µM, comparable to that of the antifungal agent amphotericin B. Our data support the use of hyporientalin A as a promising new and efficient antifungal drug in the treatment of candidiasis while controlling toxicity.

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Acknowledgements

We thank Mr. Rafed Daldoul from Diving Center Cap Afrique, Mahdia, Tunisia for helpful Scuba diving; we thank Dr. Perez from “Institut Méditerranéen de la Biodiversité et d’Ecologie Marine et Continentale, Marseille, France” for helpful comments and identification of Cymaxinella damicornis. We also wish to thank Dr. Yann Guitton for his technical contribution and Prof. E. Aouani for valuable discussion and critical reading of the manuscript. This study was supported by the “Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur and the project ECIMAR (French ANR in Biodiversity, 2006)”.

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  1. Laboratoire des Substances Bioactives, Centre de Biotechnologie de Borj-Cedria (CBBC), BP-901, 2050, Hammam-Lif, Tunisia

    Ines Touati, Olfa Tabbene, Salem Elkahoui, Roudaina Benzekri, Lamjed Bouslama & Ferid Limam

  2. Faculté de pharmacie, MMS EA 2160, Université de Nantes, 44000, Nantes, France

    Nicolas Ruiz & Yves François Pouchus

  3. Faculté des Sciences, Institut de Chimie de Nice, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, UMR 7272 CNRS, Parc Valrose, 06108, NICE Cedex 2, France

    Olivier Thomas

  4. Research Division Biotechnology and Microbiology, Institute of Chemical Engineering, Vienna University of Technology, Gumpendorferstrasse 1a, 1060, Vienna, Austria

    Irina S. Druzhinina & Lea Atanasova

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Touati, I., Ruiz, N., Thomas, O. et al. Hyporientalin A, an anti-Candida peptaibol from a marine Trichoderma orientale. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 34, 98 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11274-018-2482-z

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