6-Prenylindole is a bacterial metabolite that has been found in Streptomyces and has antifungal and antimalarial properties.1 It is active against A. brassicicola strain TP-F0423 and F. oxysporum f. sp. tulipae TU-4-2 (15 and 30 μg/disc in the paper disc assay), and also drug-resistant P. falciparum strain K1 (IC50 = 21 μg/ml).2
|1. Sasaki, T., Igarashi, Y., Ogawa, M., et al. Identification of 6-prenylindole as an antifungal metabolite of Streptomyces sp. TP-A0595 and synthesis and bioactivity of 6-substituted indoles. J. Antibiot. (Tokyo) 55(11), 1009-1012 (2002).|2. Nkunya, M.H., Makangara, J.J., and Jonker, S.A. Prenylindoles from Tanzanian Monodora and Isolona species. Nat. Prod. Res. 18(3), 253-258 (2004).