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Brönstrup M, Sasse F. Natural products targeting the elongation phase of eukaryotic protein biosynthesis. Nat Prod Rep 2021; 37:752-762. [PMID: 32428051 DOI: 10.1039/d0np00011f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
Abstract
Covering: 2000 to 2020 The translation of mRNA into proteins is a precisely regulated, complex process that can be divided into three main stages, i.e. initiation, elongation, termination, and recycling. This contribution is intended to highlight how natural products interfere with the elongation phase of eukaryotic protein biosynthesis. Cycloheximide, isolated from Streptomyces griseus, has long been the prototype inhibitor of eukaryotic translation elongation. In the last three decades, a variety of natural products from different origins were discovered to also address the elongation step in different manners, including interference with the elongation factors eEF1 and eEF2 as well as binding to A-, P- or E-sites of the ribosome itself. Recent advances in the crystallization of the ribosomal machinery together with natural product inhibitors allowed characterizing similarities as well as differences in their mode of action. Since aberrations in protein synthesis are commonly observed in tumors, and malfunction or overexpression of translation factors can cause cellular transformation, the protein synthesis machinery has been realized as an attractive target for anticancer drugs. The therapeutic use of the first natural products that reached market approval, plitidepsin (Aplidin®) and homoharringtonine (Synribo®), will be introduced. In addition, we will highlight two other potential indications for translation elongation inhibitors, i.e. viral infections and genetic disorders caused by premature termination of translation.
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- Mark Brönstrup
- Department of Chemical Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany. and Center of Biomolecular Drug Research (BMWZ), Leibniz University, 30159 Hannover, Germany and German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Hannover-Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany.
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Burgers LD, Fürst R. Natural products as drugs and tools for influencing core processes of eukaryotic mRNA translation. Pharmacol Res 2021; 170:105535. [PMID: 34058326 DOI: 10.1016/j.phrs.2021.105535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2021] [Revised: 03/02/2021] [Accepted: 03/02/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Eukaryotic protein synthesis is the highly conserved, complex mechanism of translating genetic information into proteins. Although this process is essential for cellular homoeostasis, dysregulations are associated with cellular malfunctions and diseases including cancer and diabetes. In the challenging and ongoing search for adequate treatment possibilities, natural products represent excellent research tools and drug leads for new interactions with the translational machinery and for influencing mRNA translation. In this review, bacterial-, marine- and plant-derived natural compounds that interact with different steps of mRNA translation, comprising ribosomal assembly, translation initiation and elongation, are highlighted. Thereby, the exact binding and interacting partners are unveiled in order to accurately understand the mode of action of each natural product. The pharmacological relevance of these compounds is furthermore assessed by evaluating the observed biological activities in the light of translational inhibition and by enlightening potential obstacles and undesired side-effects, e.g. in clinical trials. As many of the natural products presented here possess the potential to serve as drug leads for synthetic derivatives, structural motifs, which are indispensable for both mode of action and biological activities, are discussed. Evaluating the natural products emphasises the strong diversity of their points of attack. Especially the fact that selected binding partners can be set in direct relation to different diseases emphasises the indispensability of natural products in the field of drug development. Discovery of new, unique and unusual interacting partners again renders them promising tools for future research in the field of eukaryotic mRNA translation.
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- Luisa D Burgers
- Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology, Faculty of Biochemistry, Chemistry and Pharmacy, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology, Faculty of Biochemistry, Chemistry and Pharmacy, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany; LOEWE Center for Translational Biodiversity Genomics (LOEWE-TBG), Frankfurt, Germany
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Curti C, Battistini L, Sartori A, Zanardi F. New Developments of the Principle of Vinylogy as Applied to π-Extended Enolate-Type Donor Systems. Chem Rev 2020; 120:2448-2612. [PMID: 32040305 PMCID: PMC7993750 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The principle of vinylogy states that the electronic effects of a functional group in a molecule are possibly transmitted to a distal position through interposed conjugated multiple bonds. As an emblematic case, the nucleophilic character of a π-extended enolate-type chain system may be relayed from the legitimate α-site to the vinylogous γ, ε, ..., ω remote carbon sites along the chain, provided that suitable HOMO-raising strategies are adopted to transform the unsaturated pronucleophilic precursors into the reactive polyenolate species. On the other hand, when "unnatural" carbonyl ipso-sites are activated as nucleophiles (umpolung), vinylogation extends the nucleophilic character to "unnatural" β, δ, ... remote sites. Merging the principle of vinylogy with activation modalities and concepts such as iminium ion/enamine organocatalysis, NHC-organocatalysis, cooperative organo/metal catalysis, bifunctional organocatalysis, dicyanoalkylidene activation, and organocascade reactions represents an impressive step forward for all vinylogous transformations. This review article celebrates this evolutionary progress, by collecting, comparing, and critically describing the achievements made over the nine year period 2010-2018, in the generation of vinylogous enolate-type donor substrates and their use in chemical synthesis.
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- Dipartimento di Scienze degli
Alimenti e del Farmaco, Università
di Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 27A, 43124 Parma, Italy
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Lücke D, Kalesse M. Polyoxygenated Tertiary Alcohols: A Kiyooka Approach. Chemistry 2019; 25:10080-10083. [PMID: 31173411 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201902589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2019] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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A Kiyooka aldol approach for the stereoselective synthesis of tertiary alcohols is presented. This approach allows for the incorporation of different substituents at all three remaining positions at the chiral center bearing the tertiary alcohol. To demonstrate the validity of this approach different chiral alcohols were depicted and the relationship of double bond geometry of the ketene acetal and the diastereoselectivity was established.
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- Daniel Lücke
- Institute for Organic Chemistry, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, 30167, Hannover, Germany.,Centre of Biomolecular Drug Research (BMWZ), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Schneiderberg 1B, 30167, Hannover, Germany
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- Institute for Organic Chemistry, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, 30167, Hannover, Germany.,Centre of Biomolecular Drug Research (BMWZ), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Schneiderberg 1B, 30167, Hannover, Germany.,Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Inhoffenstrasse 7, 38124, Braunschweig, Germany
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Muthukumar Y, Münkemer J, Mathieu D, Richter C, Schwalbe H, Steinmetz H, Kessler W, Reichelt J, Beutling U, Frank R, Büssow K, van den Heuvel J, Brönstrup M, Taylor RE, Laschat S, Sasse F. Investigations on the mode of action of gephyronic acid, an inhibitor of eukaryotic protein translation from myxobacteria. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0201605. [PMID: 30063768 PMCID: PMC6067752 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0201605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2018] [Accepted: 07/18/2018] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The identification of inhibitors of eukaryotic protein biosynthesis, which are targeting single translation factors, is highly demanded. Here we report on a small molecule inhibitor, gephyronic acid, isolated from the myxobacterium Archangium gephyra that inhibits growth of transformed mammalian cell lines in the nM range. In direct comparison, primary human fibroblasts were shown to be less sensitive to toxic effects of gephyronic acid than cancer-derived cells. Gephyronic acid is targeting the protein translation system. Experiments with IRES dual luciferase reporter assays identified it as an inhibitor of the translation initiation. DARTs approaches, co-localization studies and pull-down assays indicate that the binding partner could be the eukaryotic initiation factor 2 subunit alpha (eIF2α). Gephyronic acid seems to have a different mode of action than the structurally related polyketides tedanolide, myriaporone, and pederin and is a valuable tool for investigating the eukaryotic translation system. Because cancer derived cells were found to be especially sensitive, gephyronic acid could potentially find use as a drug candidate.
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- Yazh Muthukumar
- Department of Chemical Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Zentrum für Biomolekulare Magnetische Resonanz, Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Zentrum für Biomolekulare Magnetische Resonanz, Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Zentrum für Biomolekulare Magnetische Resonanz, Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Microbial Drugs, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Microbial Drugs, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Structure and Function of Proteins, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Structure and Function of Proteins, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Structure and Function of Proteins, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America
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- Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
- * E-mail: (FS); (SL)
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
- * E-mail: (FS); (SL)
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Surup F, Kuhnert E, Böhm A, Pendzialek T, Solga D, Wiebach V, Engler H, Berkessel A, Stadler M, Kalesse M. The Rickiols: 20-, 22-, and 24-membered Macrolides from the Ascomycete Hypoxylon rickii. Chemistry 2018; 24:2200-2213. [PMID: 29168908 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201704928] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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In preceding studies the neotropical ascomycete Hypoxylon rickii turned out to be a prolific source of new secondary metabolites, considering that we had obtained terpenoids with five different scaffolds along with a series of terphenyls. From the mycelial extracts of a 70 L scale fermentation of this strain we additionally isolated nine new macrolides (1-9) by RP-HPLC. The planar structures were elucidated by NMR spectroscopy complemented by HR-ESIMS. The relative configurations were assigned by J-based configuration analyses and confirmed by Kishi's Universal Database. Subsequently, the absolute configurations were assigned by Mosher's method using the shift analysis of a tetra-MTPA derivative. For rickiol A (1) and E (5) we observed transesterification of 20-membered ring structures to 22-membered isomers rickiol A2 (6) and E2 (7), and to 24-membered isomers rickiol A3 (8) and rickiol E3 (9), respectively. Cytotoxic effects and moderate antibiotic activity against Gram-positive bacteria were observed for 1-8 and 1-6 and 8, respectively. The total synthesis of rickiol E3 (9) established easier access to these compounds.
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- Frank Surup
- Microbial Drugs, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research GmbH (HZI), Inhoffenstraße 7, 38124, Braunschweig, Germany.,Partner site Hannover-Braunschweig, German Centre for Infection Research Association (DZIF), Inhoffenstraße 7, 38124, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Microbial Drugs, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research GmbH (HZI), Inhoffenstraße 7, 38124, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institute for Organic Chemistry, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Schneiderberg 1B, 30167, Hannover, Germany.,Drug Research (BMWZ), Leibniz Universität Hannover, Schneiderberg 1B, 30167, Hannover, Germany
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- Institute for Organic Chemistry, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Schneiderberg 1B, 30167, Hannover, Germany.,Drug Research (BMWZ), Leibniz Universität Hannover, Schneiderberg 1B, 30167, Hannover, Germany
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- Institute for Organic Chemistry, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Schneiderberg 1B, 30167, Hannover, Germany.,Drug Research (BMWZ), Leibniz Universität Hannover, Schneiderberg 1B, 30167, Hannover, Germany
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- Microbial Drugs, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research GmbH (HZI), Inhoffenstraße 7, 38124, Braunschweig, Germany.,Institut für Chemie, Technische Universität Berlin, Müller-Breslau-Straße 10, 10623, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Cologne University, Greinstraße 4, 50939, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Cologne University, Greinstraße 4, 50939, Cologne, Germany
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- Microbial Drugs, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research GmbH (HZI), Inhoffenstraße 7, 38124, Braunschweig, Germany.,Partner site Hannover-Braunschweig, German Centre for Infection Research Association (DZIF), Inhoffenstraße 7, 38124, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institute for Organic Chemistry, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Schneiderberg 1B, 30167, Hannover, Germany.,Drug Research (BMWZ), Leibniz Universität Hannover, Schneiderberg 1B, 30167, Hannover, Germany.,Medicinal Chemistry, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research GmbH (HZI), Inhoffenstraße 7, 38124, Braunschweig, Germany
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Affiliation(s)
- Caroline Poock
- Institute
for Organic Chemistry and Centre of Biomolecular Drug Research (BMWZ) Leibniz Universität Hannover, Schneiderberg 1B, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
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- Institute
for Organic Chemistry and Centre of Biomolecular Drug Research (BMWZ) Leibniz Universität Hannover, Schneiderberg 1B, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
- Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Inhoffenstrasse 7, D-38124 Braunschweig, Germany
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Naini A, Fohrer J, Kalesse M. The Synthesis of Desepoxy-Isotedanolide - A Potential Biosynthetic Precursor of Tedanolide. European J Org Chem 2015. [DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201500568] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Naini A, Muthukumar Y, Raja A, Franke R, Harrier I, Smith AB, Lee D, Taylor RE, Sasse F, Kalesse M. Die Synthese und biologische Validierung von Desepoxyisotedanolid und dessen Vergleich mit Desepoxytedanolid. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201501526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Naini A, Muthukumar Y, Raja A, Franke R, Harrier I, Smith AB, Lee D, Taylor RE, Sasse F, Kalesse M. The synthesis and biological evaluation of desepoxyisotedanolide and a comparison with desepoxytedanolide. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015; 54:6935-9. [PMID: 25914374 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201501526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2015] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
Abstract
The tedanolides are biologically active polyketides that exhibit a macrolactone constructed from a primary alcohol. Since polyketidal transformations only generate secondary alcohols, it has been hypothesized by Taylor that this unique lactone could arise from a postketidal transesterification. In order to probe this hypothesis and to investigate the biological profile of the putative precursor of all members of the tedanolide family, we embarked on the synthesis of desepoxyisotedanolide and its biological evaluation in comparison to desepoxytedanolide. The biological experiments unraveled a second target for desepoxytedanolide and provided evidence that the proposed transesterification indeed provides a survival advantage for the producing microorganism.
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- Arun Naini
- Institute for Organic Chemistry, Leibniz Universität Hannover and Centre of Biomolecular Drug Research (BMWZ), Schneiderberg 1B, 30655 Hannover (Germany)
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Inhoffenstr. 7, Braunschweig (Germany)
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Inhoffenstr. 7, Braunschweig (Germany)
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Inhoffenstr. 7, Braunschweig (Germany)
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Harper Cancer Research Institute, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556-567 (USA)
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (USA)
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- College of Pharmacy, Ajou University, 206 Worldcup-ro, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon 443-749 (Korea)
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Harper Cancer Research Institute, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556-567 (USA)
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Inhoffenstr. 7, Braunschweig (Germany)
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- Institute for Organic Chemistry, Leibniz Universität Hannover and Centre of Biomolecular Drug Research (BMWZ), Schneiderberg 1B, 30655 Hannover (Germany).
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Meiries S, Bartoli A, Decostanzi M, Parrain JL, Commeiras L. Directed studies towards the total synthesis of (+)-13-deoxytedanolide: simple and convenient synthesis of the C8-C16 fragment. Org Biomol Chem 2014; 11:4882-90. [PMID: 23765336 DOI: 10.1039/c3ob40674a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A straightforward synthesis of the enantioenriched C8-C16 south part of (+)-13-deoxytedanolide has been reported. The strength of this approach relies on the preparation of similar functionalized fragments via the transformation of a unique dihydrofuran building block through a 1,2-metallate rearrangement.
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- Sébastien Meiries
- Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, iSm2 UMR 7313, 13397 Marseille, France
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Kalesse M, Cordes M, Symkenberg G, Lu HH. The vinylogous Mukaiyama aldol reaction (VMAR) in natural product synthesis. Nat Prod Rep 2014; 31:563-94. [DOI: 10.1039/c3np70102f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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This review will provide an overview on the recent developments of polyketide synthesis using the vinylogous Mukaiyama aldol reaction for the construction of advanced intermediates. In general, four different motifs can be constructed efficiently using the recent developments of asymmetric variants of this strategy.
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- Markus Kalesse
- Institute for Organic Chemistry and Centre of Biomolecular Drug Research (BMWZ)
- Leibniz Universität Hannover
- 30167 Hannover, Germany
- Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI)
- Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institute for Organic Chemistry and Centre of Biomolecular Drug Research (BMWZ)
- Leibniz Universität Hannover
- 30167 Hannover, Germany
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- Institute for Organic Chemistry and Centre of Biomolecular Drug Research (BMWZ)
- Leibniz Universität Hannover
- 30167 Hannover, Germany
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- Institute for Organic Chemistry and Centre of Biomolecular Drug Research (BMWZ)
- Leibniz Universität Hannover
- 30167 Hannover, Germany
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