Abstract
Herein we report a practical synthetic route to the lasso peptide lassomycin (1) and C-terminal variant lassomycin-amide (2). The biological evaluation of peptides 1 and 2 against Mycobacterium tuberculosis revealed that neither had any activity against this bacterium. This lack of biological activity has led us to propose that naturally occurring lassomycin may actually exhibit a standard lasso peptide threaded conformation rather than the previously reported unthreaded structure.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 4534-4541 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue number | 19 |
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| Publication status | Published - 12 Apr 2016 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the EPSRC (Durham University EPSRC DTG, SL). CSS was funded by an Alberta Innovates Health Solutions Fellowship and a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship. In addition, we thank Dr Juan A. Aguilar Malavia (Durham University) for the collection and processing of 2D NMR data.
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© The Royal Society of Chemistry 2016.
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Copyright 2016 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.