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Cameron AJ, Squire CJ, Gérenton A, Stubbing LA, Harris PWR, Brimble MA. Investigations of the key macrolactamisation step in the synthesis of cyclic tetrapeptide pseudoxylallemycin A. Org Biomol Chem 2020; 17:3902-3913. [PMID: 30941386 DOI: 10.1039/c9ob00227h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The total synthesis and structural confirmation of naturally occurring all l-cyclic tetrapeptide pseudoxylallemycin A is reported. X-ray crystallography revealed that the linear precursor adopted an all-trans (ttt) extended linear conformation, while its cyclic derivative adopts a trans,cis,trans,cis (tctc) conformation. Two kinetically favoured cyclic conformers prone to hydrolysis initially formed rapidly during cyclisation, with subsequent conversion to the thermodynamically stable tctc macrocycle taking place slowly. We postulate the initial unstable cyclic product undergoes an unprecedented nucleophilic ring opening with either the T3P or PyAOP by-products to give the linear ttt structure as a reactivated species and through a series of equilibria is slowly consumed by cyclisation to the thermodynamic product pseudoxylallemycin A. Consumption of the reactivated species by formation of pseudoxylallemycin A requires a trans-cis isomerism to occur and necessitates moderately increased reaction temperatures. Cyclisation with T3P was found to provide the greatest stereoretention. Synthesis and X-ray crystallography of the C-terminal epimer demonstrated its cyclisation to be kinetically favoured and to proceed without epimerisation despite also bearing an all-trans backbone.
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- Alan J Cameron
- School of Chemical Sciences, The University of Auckland, 23 Symonds St, Auckland 1010, New Zealand.
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Sarojini V, Cameron AJ, Varnava KG, Denny WA, Sanjayan G. Cyclic Tetrapeptides from Nature and Design: A Review of Synthetic Methodologies, Structure, and Function. Chem Rev 2019; 119:10318-10359. [PMID: 31418274 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.8b00737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Small cyclic peptides possess a wide range of biological properties and unique structures that make them attractive to scientists working in a range of areas from medicinal to materials chemistry. However, cyclic tetrapeptides (CTPs), which are important members of this family, are notoriously difficult to synthesize. Various synthetic methodologies have been developed that enable access to natural product CTPs and their rationally designed synthetic analogues having novel molecular structures. These methodologies include the use of reversible protecting groups such as pseudoprolines that restrict conformational freedom, ring contraction strategies, on-resin cyclization approaches, and optimization of coupling reagents and reaction conditions such as temperature and dilution factors. Several fundamental studies have documented the impacts of amino acid configurations, N-alkylation, and steric bulk on both synthetic success and ensuing conformations. Carefully executed retrosynthetic ring dissection and the unique structural features of the linear precursor sequences that result from the ring dissection are crucial for the success of the cyclization step. Other factors that influence the outcome of the cyclization step include reaction temperature, solvent, reagents used as well as dilution levels. The purpose of this review is to highlight the current state of affairs on naturally occurring and rationally designed cyclic tetrapeptides, including strategies investigated for their syntheses in the literature, the conformations adopted by these molecules, and specific examples of their function. Using selected examples from the literature, an in-depth discussion of the synthetic techniques and reaction parameters applied for the successful syntheses of 12-, 13-, and 14-membered natural product CTPs and their novel analogues are presented, with particular focus on the cyclization step. Selected examples of the three-dimensional structures of cyclic tetrapeptides studied by NMR, and X-ray crystallography are also included.
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- Vijayalekshmi Sarojini
- School of Chemical Sciences and the Centre for Green Chemical Science , University of Auckland , Auckland 1142 , New Zealand.,The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology , Wellington 6140 , New Zealand
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- School of Chemical Sciences and the Centre for Green Chemical Science , University of Auckland , Auckland 1142 , New Zealand
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- School of Chemical Sciences and the Centre for Green Chemical Science , University of Auckland , Auckland 1142 , New Zealand
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- Division of Organic Chemistry , CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory , Dr. Homi Bhabha Road , Pune 411 008 , India
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Cameron AJ, Squire CJ, Edwards PJB, Harjes E, Sarojini V. Crystal and NMR Structures of a Peptidomimetic β-Turn That Provides Facile Synthesis of 13-Membered Cyclic Tetrapeptides. Chem Asian J 2017; 12:3195-3202. [PMID: 29098772 DOI: 10.1002/asia.201701422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2017] [Revised: 10/30/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Herein we report the unique conformations adopted by linear and cyclic tetrapeptides (CTPs) containing 2-aminobenzoic acid (2-Abz) in solution and as single crystals. The crystal structure of the linear tetrapeptide H2 N-d-Leu-d-Phe-2-Abz-d-Ala-COOH (1) reveals a novel planar peptidomimetic β-turn stabilized by three hydrogen bonds and is in agreement with its NMR structure in solution. While CTPs are often synthetically inaccessible or cyclize in poor yield, both 1 and its N-Me-d-Phe analogue (2) adopt pseudo-cyclic frameworks enabling near quantitative conversion to the corresponding CTPs 3 and 4. The crystal structure of the N-methylated peptide (4) is the first reported for a CTP containing 2-Abz and reveals a distinctly planar 13-membered ring, which is also evident in solution. The N-methylation of d-Phe results in a peptide bond inversion compared to the conformation of 3 in solution.
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- Alan J Cameron
- School of Chemical Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand
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- Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, 4442, New Zealand
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- Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, 4442, New Zealand
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Chung BKW, White CJ, Scully CCG, Yudin AK. The reactivity and conformational control of cyclic tetrapeptides derived from aziridine-containing amino acids. Chem Sci 2016; 7:6662-6668. [PMID: 28567256 PMCID: PMC5450523 DOI: 10.1039/c6sc01687a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2016] [Accepted: 06/29/2016] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Among the smallest of the macrocyclic peptides, 12- and 13-membered cyclic tetrapeptides are particularly noteworthy because they exhibit a broad spectrum of biological activities due to their innate capacity to mimic β-turns in proteins. In this report, we demonstrate that aziridine-containing cyclic tetrapeptides offer a platform to interrogate the conformational properties of tetrapeptides. We show that aziridine ring-opening of 12-membered cyclic tetrapeptides yields exclusively 13-membered α3β macrocycles, regardless of peptide sequence, nucleophile, aziridine β-carbon substitution, or stereochemistry. NMR and computational studies on two related aziridine-containing cyclic tetrapeptides revealed that the amide conformations of their N-acyl aziridines are similar, and are likely the determinant of the observed ring-opening regioselectivity. Interestingly, some of the resulting 13-membered α3β macrocycles were found to be conformationally heterogeneous. This study on the reactivity and conformational control of aziridine-containing cyclic tetrapeptides provides useful insight on the design and development of macrocyclic therapeutics.
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- Benjamin K W Chung
- Davenport Research Laboratories , Department of Chemistry , The University of Toronto , 80 St. George Street , Toronto , Ontario M5S 3H6 , Canada .
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- Davenport Research Laboratories , Department of Chemistry , The University of Toronto , 80 St. George Street , Toronto , Ontario M5S 3H6 , Canada .
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- Davenport Research Laboratories , Department of Chemistry , The University of Toronto , 80 St. George Street , Toronto , Ontario M5S 3H6 , Canada .
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- Davenport Research Laboratories , Department of Chemistry , The University of Toronto , 80 St. George Street , Toronto , Ontario M5S 3H6 , Canada .
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Neelamraju S, Johnston RL, Schön JC. A Threshold-Minimization Scheme for Exploring the Energy Landscape of Biomolecules: Application to a Cyclic Peptide and a Disaccharide. J Chem Theory Comput 2016; 12:2471-9. [PMID: 27049524 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.6b00118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We present a scheme, called the threshold-minimization method, for globally exploring the energy landscapes of small systems of biomolecular interest where typical exploration moves always require a certain degree of subsequent structural relaxation in order to be efficient, e.g., systems containing small or large circular carbon chains such as cyclic peptides or carbohydrates. We show that using this threshold-minimization method we can not only reproduce the global minimum and relevant local minima but also overcome energetic barriers associated with different types of isomerism for the example of a cyclic peptide, cyclo-(Gly)4. We then apply the new method to the disaccharide α-d-glucopyranose-1-2-β-d-fructofuranose, report energetically preferred configurations and barriers to boat-chair isomerization in the glucopyranosyl ring, and discuss the energy landscape.
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- Sridhar Neelamraju
- School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham , Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham , Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
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- Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research , Heisenbergstrasse 1, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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Oakley MT, Oheix E, Peacock AFA, Johnston RL. Computational and Experimental Investigations into the Conformations of Cyclic Tetra-α/β-peptides. J Phys Chem B 2013; 117:8122-34. [DOI: 10.1021/jp4043039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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- Mark T. Oakley
- School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, U.K
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- School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, U.K
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- School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, U.K
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- School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, U.K
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Oakley MT, Johnston RL. Exploring the Energy Landscapes of Cyclic Tetrapeptides with Discrete Path Sampling. J Chem Theory Comput 2013; 9:650-657. [PMID: 23596359 PMCID: PMC3624815 DOI: 10.1021/ct3005084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2012] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Cyclic tetrapeptides are an important class of biologically active molecules that exhibit interesting conformational dynamics, with slow interconversion of several different structures. We present calculations on their energy landscapes using discrete path sampling. In acyclic peptides and large cyclic peptides, isomers containing cis-peptide groups are much less stable than the all-trans isomers and separated from them by large barriers. Strain in small cyclic peptides causes the cis and trans isomers to be closer in energy and separated by much lower barriers. If d-amino acids or proline residues are introduced, isomers containing cis-peptides become more stable than the all-trans structures. We also show that changing the polarity of the solvent has a significant effect on the energy landscapes of cyclic tetrapeptides, causing changes in the orientations of the peptide groups and in the degree of intramolecular hydrogen bonding.
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- Mark T. Oakley
- School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15
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- School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15
2TT, U.K
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Perrin L, Loiseau N, André F, Delaforge M. Metabolism of N-methyl-amide by cytochrome P450s. FEBS J 2011; 278:2167-78. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2011.08133.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Horne W, Olsen C, Beierle J, Montero A, Ghadiri M. Probing the Bioactive Conformation of an Archetypal Natural Product HDAC Inhibitor with Conformationally Homogeneous Triazole‐Modified Cyclic Tetrapeptides. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2009. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.200805900] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Horne WS, Olsen CA, Beierle JM, Montero A, Reza Ghadiri M. Probing the bioactive conformation of an archetypal natural product HDAC inhibitor with conformationally homogeneous triazole-modified cyclic tetrapeptides. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2009; 48:4718-24. [PMID: 19267380 PMCID: PMC3041267 DOI: 10.1002/anie.200805900] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Fooling enzymes with mock amides: Analogues of apicidin, a cyclic-tetrapeptide inhibitor of histone deacetylase (HDAC), were designed with a 1,4- or 1,5-disubstituted 1,2,3-triazole in place of a backbone amide bond to fix the bond in question in either a trans-like or a cis-like configuration. Thus, the binding affinity of distinct peptide conformations (see picture) could be probed. One analogue proved in some cases to be superior to apicidin as an HDAC inhibitor.
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- Department of Chemistry and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037 (USA)
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- Department of Chemistry and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037 (USA)
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- Department of Chemistry and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037 (USA)
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Hong S, Pedersen PL. ATP synthase and the actions of inhibitors utilized to study its roles in human health, disease, and other scientific areas. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 2008; 72:590-641, Table of Contents. [PMID: 19052322 PMCID: PMC2593570 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.00016-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 236] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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ATP synthase, a double-motor enzyme, plays various roles in the cell, participating not only in ATP synthesis but in ATP hydrolysis-dependent processes and in the regulation of a proton gradient across some membrane-dependent systems. Recent studies of ATP synthase as a potential molecular target for the treatment of some human diseases have displayed promising results, and this enzyme is now emerging as an attractive molecular target for the development of new therapies for a variety of diseases. Significantly, ATP synthase, because of its complex structure, is inhibited by a number of different inhibitors and provides diverse possibilities in the development of new ATP synthase-directed agents. In this review, we classify over 250 natural and synthetic inhibitors of ATP synthase reported to date and present their inhibitory sites and their known or proposed modes of action. The rich source of ATP synthase inhibitors and their known or purported sites of action presented in this review should provide valuable insights into their applications as potential scaffolds for new therapeutics for human and animal diseases as well as for the discovery of new pesticides and herbicides to help protect the world's food supply. Finally, as ATP synthase is now known to consist of two unique nanomotors involved in making ATP from ADP and P(i), the information provided in this review may greatly assist those investigators entering the emerging field of nanotechnology.
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- Sangjin Hong
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, 725 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205-2185, USA
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Bisek N, Wetzel S, Arndt HD, Waldmann H. Synthesis and Conformational Analysis of Stevastelin C3 Analogues and Their Activity Against the Dual-Specific Vaccina H1-Related Phosphatase. Chemistry 2008; 14:8847-8860. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.200800692] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Dugave C, Demange L. Cis-trans isomerization of organic molecules and biomolecules: implications and applications. Chem Rev 2003; 103:2475-532. [PMID: 12848578 DOI: 10.1021/cr0104375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 753] [Impact Index Per Article: 35.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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- Christophe Dugave
- CEA/Saclay, Département d'Ingénierie et d'Etudes des Protéines (DIEP), Bâtiment 152, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
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Loiseau N, Gomis JM, Santolini J, Delaforge M, André F. Predicting the conformational states of cyclic tetrapeptides. Biopolymers 2003; 69:363-85. [PMID: 12833263 DOI: 10.1002/bip.10339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Biologically active cyclic tetrapeptides, usually found among fungi metabolites, exhibit phytotoxic or cytostatic activities that are likely to be governed by specific conformations adopted in solution. For conformational studies and drug design, there is a strong interest in using fast and reliable methods to determine correctly the conformational population of cyclotetrapeptides. We show here that standard molecular mechanics computational approach gives satisfactory results. The method was validated step by step by experimental data either obtained after synthesis and NMR analysis, or found in the literature. The cyclo(Gly)(4), cyclo(Ala)(4), cyclo(Sar)(4), and cyclo(SarGly)(2) peptides were used to evaluate the prediction of the peptide backbone conformation, and the detailed conformational analysis of tentoxin, a natural phytotoxic cyclotetrapeptide in which N-alkylated peptide bonds alternate with regular secondary ones, was used to validate the computation of conformers proportions. From the knowledge of an initial cyclic primary structure and of the D or L configuration of the amino acids, we show that it is possible to determine the exact orientation of carbonyl groups and to predict the nature of conformers present in solution. The proportion of each conformer can be inferred from a statistical thermodynamics approach by using the potential energy values of each conformer, computed by molecular mechanics methods with the TRIPOS force field, which allowed us to account for the solvent. The solvent contribution was processed by two different methods according to the nature of the interactions: whether through the dielectric constant introduced in the electrostatic potential, when interaction with solute molecules are weak or negligible, or through the computation of free energy of solvation using the algorithm SILVERWARE for solvents explicitly interacting with the solute. When applied to tentoxin, this conformational analysis yielded results in very good agreement with the experimental data reported by Pinet et al. (Biopolymers, 1995, Vol. 36, pp. 135-152), on both the nature of existing conformers and their relative proportions, whatever the nature of the considered solvent.
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- Nicolas Loiseau
- CNRS-URA 2096, Protéines Membranaires Transductrices d'Energie, DBJC, et Département de Biologie, Joliet-Curie, CEA-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France
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Jiménez JC, Chavarría B, López-Macià A, Royo M, Giralt E, Albericio F. Tentoxin as a scaffold for drug discovery. Total solid-phase synthesis of tentoxin and a library of analogues. Org Lett 2003; 5:2115-8. [PMID: 12790542 DOI: 10.1021/ol0345273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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[reaction: see text] A solid-phase method for the synthesis of tentoxin has been developed. Two key steps-dehydration and N-alkylation-are carried out while the peptide is anchored to the resin. The method, which has been validated by the preparation of a library of tentoxin analogues, should be applicable to the generation of further libraries that have the tentoxin scaffold structure, as well as other structures containing N-alkylated didehydroamino acids.
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- Jose C Jiménez
- Barcelona Biomedical Research Institute and Combinatorial Chemistry Unity, Barcelona Science Park, University of Barcelona, Josep Samitier 1, 08028-Barcelona, Spain
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Garrigues A, Loiseau N, Delaforge M, Ferté J, Garrigos M, André F, Orlowski S. Characterization of two pharmacophores on the multidrug transporter P-glycoprotein. Mol Pharmacol 2002; 62:1288-98. [PMID: 12435795 DOI: 10.1124/mol.62.6.1288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The multidrug transporter P-glycoprotein is a plasma membrane protein involved in cell and tissue detoxification and the multidrug resistance (MDR) phenotype. It actively expels from cells a number of cytotoxic molecules, all amphiphilic but chemically unrelated. We investigated the molecular characteristics involved in the binding selectivity of P-glycoprotein by means of a molecular modeling approach using various substrates combined with an enzymological study using these substrates and native membrane vesicles prepared from MDR cells. We determined affinities and mutual relationships from the changes in P-glycoprotein ATPase activity induced by a series of cyclic peptides and peptide-like compounds, used alone or in combination. Modeling of the intramolecular distribution of the hydrophobic and polar surfaces of this series of molecules made it possible to superimpose some of these surface elements. These molecular alignments were correlated with the observed mutual exclusions for binding on P-glycoprotein. This led to the characterization of two different, but partially overlapping, pharmacophores. On each of these pharmacophores, the ligands compete with each other. The typical MDR-associated molecules, verapamil, cyclosporin A, and actinomycin D, bound to pharmacophore 1, whereas vinblastine bound to pharmacophore 2. Thus, the multispecific binding pocket of P-glycoprotein can be seen as sites, located near one another, that bind ligands according to the distribution of their hydrophobic and polar elements rather than their chemical motifs. The existence of two pharmacophores increases the possibilities for multiple chemical structure recognition. The size of the ligands affects their ability to compete with other ligands for binding to P-glycoprotein.
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- Alexia Garrigues
- Département de Biologie Joliot Curie, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, and Unité de Recherche Associée 2096 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire de Recherche Associé 17V Université Paris-Sud, Paris, France
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Minoletti C, Santolini J, Haraux F, Pothier J, André F. Rebuilt 3D structure of the chloroplast f1 ATPase-tentoxin complex. Proteins 2002; 49:302-20. [PMID: 12360520 DOI: 10.1002/prot.10137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The F1 part of the chloroplast H+ adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-synthase (CF1) strongly interacts with tentoxin, a natural fungous cyclic tetrapeptide known to inhibit the chloroplast enzyme and not the mammalian mitochondrial enzyme. Whereas the synthesis or the hydrolysis of ATP requires the stepwise rotation of the protein rotor gamma within the (alphabeta)3 crown, only one molecule of tentoxin is needed to fully inhibit the complex. With the help of an original homology modeling technique, based on robust distance geometry protocols, we built a tridimensional model of the alpha3beta3gamma CF1) subcomplex (3200 esidues), in which we introduced three different nucleotide occupancies to check their possible influence on the tentoxin binding site. Simultaneous comparison of three available high-resolution X-ray structures of F1, performed with a local structural alignment search tool, led to characterizing common structural blocks and the distorsions experienced by the complex during the catalytic turnover. The common structural blocks were used as a starting point of the spinach CF1 structure rebuilding. Finally, tentoxin was docked into its putative binding site of the reconstructed structure. The docking method was initially validated in the mitochondrial enzyme by its ability to relocate nucleotides into their original position in the crystal. Tentoxin binding was found possible to the two alpha/beta interfaces associated with the empty and adenosine diphosphate (ADP)-loaded catalytic sites, but not to the one associated with the ATP-loaded site. These results suggest a mechanism of CF1 inhibition by one molecule of tentoxin, by the impossibility of the alpha/beta interface bearing tentoxin to pass through the ATP-loaded state.
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- Claire Minoletti
- CNRS URA 2096, Protéines Membranaires Transductrices d'Energie, Section de Bioénergétique, Département de Biologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, CEA-SACLAY, France
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Groth G. Structure of spinach chloroplast F1-ATPase complexed with the phytopathogenic inhibitor tentoxin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2002; 99:3464-8. [PMID: 11904410 PMCID: PMC122546 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.052546099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2001] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Tentoxin, a natural cyclic tetrapeptide produced by phytopathogenic fungi from the Alternaria species affects the catalytic function of the chloroplast F(1)-ATPase in certain sensitive species of plants. In this study, we show that the uncompetitive inhibitor tentoxin binds to the alphabeta-interface of the chloroplast F(1)-ATPase in a cleft localized at betaAsp-83. Most of the binding site is located on the noncatalytic alpha-subunit. The crystal structure of the tentoxin-inhibited CF(1)-complex suggests that the inhibitor is hydrogen bonded to Asp-83 in the catalytic beta-subunit but forms hydrophobic contacts with residues Ile-63, Leu-65, Val-75, Tyr-237, Leu-238, and Met-274 in the adjacent alpha-subunit. Except for minor changes around the tentoxin-binding site, the structure of the chloroplast alpha(3)beta(3)-core complex is the same as that determined with the native chloroplast ATPase. Tentoxin seems to act by inhibiting inter-subunit contacts at the alphabeta-interface and by blocking the interconversion of binding sites in the catalytic mechanism.
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- Georg Groth
- Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Biochemie der Pflanzen, Universitätsstrasse 1, D-40225 Duesseldorf, Germany.
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Wu MG, Deem MW. Analytical rebridging Monte Carlo: Application to cis/trans isomerization in proline-containing, cyclic peptides. J Chem Phys 1999. [DOI: 10.1063/1.479952] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Cavelier F, Verducci J, André F, Haraux F, Sigalat C, Traris M, Vey A. Natural cyclopeptides as leads for novel pesticides: tentoxin and destruxin. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1999. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-9063(199801)52:1<81::aid-ps666>3.0.co;2-h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Santolini J, Haraux F, Sigalat C, Munier L, André F. Interrelation between high and low affinity tentoxin binding sites in chloroplast F1-ATPase revealed by synthetic analogues. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:3343-50. [PMID: 9452452 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.6.3343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Eight synthetic analogues of tentoxin (cyclo-(L-N-MeGlu1-L-Leu2-N-MeDeltaZPhe3-Gly4)) modified in residues 1, 2, and 3 were checked for their ability to inhibit and reactivate the ATPase activity of the activated soluble part of chloroplast ATP synthase. The data were consistent with a model involving two binding sites of different affinities for the toxins. The occupancy of the high affinity site (or tight site) gave rise to an inactive complex, whereas filling both sites (tight + loose) gave rise to a complex of variable activity, dependent on the toxin analogue. Competition experiments between tentoxin and nonreactivating analogues allowed discrimination between the absence of binding and a nonproductive binding to the site of lower affinity (or loose site). The affinity for the loose site was not affected significantly by the modifications of the tentoxin molecule, whereas the affinity for the tight site was found notably changed. Increasing the size of side chain 1 or 2 and introducing a net electrical charge both resulted in a decrease of affinity for the tight site, but the second change dominated the first one. The activity of different ternary complexes enzyme-tentoxin-analogue depended on the nature of the toxin bound on each site and not only on that bound on the loose site. This demonstrates that the reactivation process results from an interaction, direct or not, between these two binding sites. Possible molecular mechanisms are discussed.
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- J Santolini
- Section de Bioénergétique, Département de Biologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, CEA-Saclay, bâtiment 532, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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Delaforge M, Andre F, Jaouen M, Dolgos H, Benech H, Gomis JM, Noel JP, Cavelier F, Verducci J, Aubagnac JL, Liebermann B. Metabolism of tentoxin by hepatic cytochrome P-450 3A isozymes. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1997; 250:150-7. [PMID: 9432003 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1997.00150.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The interaction between rat and human liver cytochrome P-450 with tentoxin, a natural phytotoxic cyclotetrapeptide having chlorotic properties, was studied by difference ultraviolet visible spectroscopy. Tentoxin interacted with rat liver microsomes and the difference spectrum was characteristic of binding to a protein site close to the heme. The intensity of this spectrum was clearly dependent on the amounts of P-450 3A in the microsomes and was optimal in dexamethasone-treated rat microsomes. Tentoxin exhibited a high affinity for P-450 3A (Ks approximately 10 microM). Similar results were observed with human P-450 isozymes expressed in yeast. Only P-450 3A4 and 3A5 were able to give spectral interactions with tentoxin. Liver microsomes from rats pretreated with dexamethasone, a specific inducer of P-450 3A, were found to be particularly active for the oxidation of tentoxin, which occurs mainly on its Ala(Me) function leading to demethylation. Yeast-expressed P-450 3A also exhibited high activity to metabolize tentoxin. The metabolites were identified by their ultraviolet and mass spectra in fast atom bombardment and collision-activated dissociation modes. In addition to the major N-demethylated metabolite, other hydroxylated metabolites were formed. Preliminary analysis showed that as tentoxin, some metabolites were still efficient chloroplast ATPase inhibitors, while at least one of them exhibited even at low concentration stimulatory effects.
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- M Delaforge
- Université René Descartes, Laboratoire de Chimie et Biochimie Pharmacologiques et Toxicologiques, CNRS URA 400, Paris, France.
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Raghothama S, Chaddha M, Balaram P. NMR Analysis of a Conformational Transition in an Acyclic Peptide. Model System for Studying Helix Unfolding. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1996. [DOI: 10.1021/jp9611939] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- S. Raghothama
- Molecular Biophysics Unit and Sophisticated Instruments Facility, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560 012, India
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- Molecular Biophysics Unit and Sophisticated Instruments Facility, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560 012, India
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- Molecular Biophysics Unit and Sophisticated Instruments Facility, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560 012, India
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