Histrionicotoxin alkaloids finally detected in an ant

Tappey H. Jones; Rachelle Martha Marie Adams; Thomas F. Spande; H. Martin Garraffo; Tetsuo Kaneko; Ted R. Schultz

doi:10.1021/np300485v

Histrionicotoxin alkaloids finally detected in an ant

Tappey H. Jones, Rachelle Martha Marie Adams, Thomas F. Spande, H. Martin Garraffo, Tetsuo Kaneko, Ted R. Schultz

Ecology and Evolution

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Abstract

Workers of the ant Carebarella bicolor collected in Panama were found to have two major poison-frog alkaloids, cis- and trans-fused decahydroquinolines (DHQs) of the 269AB type, four minor 269AB isomers, two minor 269B isomers, and three isomers of DHQ 271D. For the first time in an ant, however, the DHQs were accompanied by six histrionicotoxins (HTXs), viz., 283A, 285A, 285B, 285C, 287A, and 287D. This co-occurrence of the HTX and DHQ alkaloids is the usual pattern seen in dendrobatid frogs. This finding contrasts with our earlier study, where workers of a Brazilian ant, Solenopsis (Diplorhoptrum) sp., were found to have a very similar DHQ complex but failed to show HTXs. Several new DHQ alkaloids of MW 271 (named in the frog as 271G) are reported from the above ants that have both m/z 202 and 204 as major fragment ions, unlike the spectrum seen for the poison-frog alkaloid 271D, which has only an m/z 204 base peak. Found also for the first time in skin extracts from the comparison frog Oophaga granulifera of Costa Rica is a trace DHQ of MW 273. It is coded as 273F in the frog; a different isomer is found in the ant.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Tidsskrift	Journal of Natural Products
Vol/bind	75
Udgave nummer	11
Sider (fra-til)	1930-1936
Antal sider	7
ISSN	0163-3864
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1021/np300485v
Status	Udgivet - 26 nov. 2012

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