During the course of the investigation of the antifungal metabolites against Peronophythora litchii from the fermentation broth of Streptomyces sp SC120, an antibiotics that exhibited the cytotoxicity to CNE 2 was isolated By spectral (UV, IR, HRMS, 1H NMR, 13 C NMR, 1H 1H COSY, HMQC and HMBC) analyses, its structure was identified as pimprinine The cytotoxicity of pimprinine to CNE 2 was reported for the first time