Purpactins, new inhibitors of acyl-CoA:cholesterol acyltransferase produced by Penicillium purpurogenum. I. Production, isolation and physico-chemical and biological properties.

1 January 1991

journal article
Published by Japan Antibiotics Research Association in The Journal of Antibiotics

Vol. 44 (2) , 136-143
https://doi.org/10.7164/antibiotics.44.136

Abstract

Penicillium purpurogenum FO-608, a soil isolate, was found to produce a series of new inhibitors of acyl-CoA:cholesterol acyltransferase (ACAT). Three active compounds, designated purpactins, A, B and C, were isolated from the fermentation broth of the producing strain by solvent extraction, silica gel column chromatography and HPLC. Purpactins inhibit ACAT activity in an enzyme assay system using rat liver microsomes with IC50 values of 121 approximately 126 microM. Purpactin A also inhibited cholesterol ester formation in J 774 macrophages, indicating the inhibition of ACAT activity in the living cells by purpactin A.

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