Guillen, Paul O.Gegunde Mosquera, SandraJaramillo, Karla B.Alfonso Rancaño, María AmparoCalabro, KevinAlonso López, EvaRodriguez, JennyBotana López, Luis MiguelThomas, Olivier P.2020-05-242020-05-242018Guillen, P.O.; Gegunde, S.; Jaramillo, K.B.; Alfonso, A.; Calabro, K.; Alonso, E.; Rodriguez, J.; Botana, L.M.; Thomas, O.P. Zoanthamine Alkaloids from the Zoantharian Zoanthus cf. pulchellus and Their Effects in Neuroinflammation. Mar. Drugs 2018, 16, 242http://hdl.handle.net/10347/22505Two new zoanthamine alkaloids, namely 3-acetoxynorzoanthamine (1) and 3-acetoxyzoanthamine (2), have been isolated from the zoantharian Zoanthus cf. pulchellus collected off the coast of the Santa Elena Peninsula, Ecuador, together with three known derivatives: zoanthamine, norzoanthamine, and 3-hydroxynorzoanthamine. The chemical structures of 1 and 2 were determined by interpretation of their 1D and 2D NMR data and comparison with literature data. This is the first report of zoanthamine-type alkaloids from Zoanthus cf. pulchellus collected in the Tropical Eastern Pacific. The neuroinflammatory activity of all the isolated compounds was evaluated in microglia BV-2 cells and high inhibitory effects were observed in reactive oxygen species (ROS) and nitric oxide (NO) generationeng© 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ZoanthariaTropical Eastern PacificZoanthus pulchellusZoanthamineInflammationjournal article10.3390/md160702421660-3397open access