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Wasilko DJ, Gerstenberger BS, Farley KA, Li W, Alley J, Schnute ME, Unwalla RJ, Victorino J, Crouse KK, Ding R, Sahasrabudhe PV, Vincent F, Frisbie RK, Dermenci A, Flick A, Choi C, Chinigo G, Mousseau JJ, Trujillo JI, Nuhant P, Mondal P, Lombardo V, Lamb D, Hogan BJ, Minhas GS, Segala E, Oswald C, Windsor IW, Han S, Rappas M, Cooke RM, Calabrese MF, Berstein G, Thorarensen A, Wu H. Structural basis for CCR6 modulation by allosteric antagonists. Nat Commun 2024; 15:7574. [PMID: 39217154 PMCID: PMC11365967 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-52045-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2024] [Accepted: 08/23/2024] [Indexed: 09/04/2024] Open
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The CC chemokine receptor 6 (CCR6) is a potential target for chronic inflammatory diseases. Previously, we reported an active CCR6 structure in complex with its cognate chemokine CCL20, revealing the molecular basis of CCR6 activation. Here, we present two inactive CCR6 structures in ternary complexes with different allosteric antagonists, CCR6/SQA1/OXM1 and CCR6/SQA1/OXM2. The oxomorpholine analogues, OXM1 and OXM2 are highly selective CCR6 antagonists which bind to an extracellular pocket and disrupt the receptor activation network. An energetically favoured U-shaped conformation in solution that resembles the bound form is observed for the active analogues. SQA1 is a squaramide derivative with close-in analogues reported as antagonists of chemokine receptors including CCR6. SQA1 binds to an intracellular pocket which overlaps with the G protein site, stabilizing a closed pocket that is a hallmark of inactive GPCRs. Minimal communication between the two allosteric pockets is observed, in contrast to the prevalent allosteric cooperativity model of GPCRs. This work highlights the versatility of GPCR antagonism by small molecules, complementing previous knowledge of CCR6 activation, and sheds light on drug discovery targeting CCR6.
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- Inflammation and Immunology Research, Pfizer Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Inflammation and Immunology Research, Pfizer Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Discovery Sciences, Medicine Design, Pfizer Inc., Groton, CT, USA
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- Inflammation and Immunology Research, Pfizer Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Inflammation and Immunology Research, Pfizer Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Discovery Sciences, Medicine Design, Pfizer Inc., Groton, CT, USA
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- Medicine Design, Pfizer Inc., Groton, CT, USA
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- Sosei Heptares, Steinmetz Building, Granta Park, Great Abington, Cambridge, UK
- Nxera Pharma UK Limited, Steinmetz Building, Granta Park, Great Abington, Cambridge, UK
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- Sosei Heptares, Steinmetz Building, Granta Park, Great Abington, Cambridge, UK
- Nxera Pharma UK Limited, Steinmetz Building, Granta Park, Great Abington, Cambridge, UK
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- Sosei Heptares, Steinmetz Building, Granta Park, Great Abington, Cambridge, UK
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- Sosei Heptares, Steinmetz Building, Granta Park, Great Abington, Cambridge, UK
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- Discovery Sciences, Medicine Design, Pfizer Inc., Groton, CT, USA
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- Discovery Sciences, Medicine Design, Pfizer Inc., Groton, CT, USA
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- Sosei Heptares, Steinmetz Building, Granta Park, Great Abington, Cambridge, UK
- Nxera Pharma UK Limited, Steinmetz Building, Granta Park, Great Abington, Cambridge, UK
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- Sosei Heptares, Steinmetz Building, Granta Park, Great Abington, Cambridge, UK
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- Inflammation and Immunology Research, Pfizer Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Discovery Sciences, Medicine Design, Pfizer Inc., Groton, CT, USA.
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He JH, Cheng WW, Zhang AQ, Qin SY. Tandem "One-Shot" Measurement of Residual Chemical Shift Anisotropy and Residual Dipolar Coupling using Biphasic Supramolecular Peptide Liquid Crystals. Anal Chem 2024; 96:11881-11889. [PMID: 38976239 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.4c01558] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/09/2024]
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Both solitary and tandem applications of residual chemical shift anisotropy (RCSA) and residual dipolar coupling (RDC) show great potential for the structural and configurational determination of organic molecules. A critical component of both RDC and RCSA methodologies is the alignment medium, whose availability is limited, especially for RCSA measurement. Moreover, reported RDC and RCSA acquisitions mainly rely on two experiments conducted under two different conditions, which are relatively time-consuming and easily cause experimental errors. Herein, a biphasic supramolecular lyotropic liquid crystalline (LLC) system was developed through the self-assembly of C21H43-CONH-V4K3-CONH2, which could act as an alignment medium for not only RDC but also RCSA extraction in DMSO-d6. Notably, the RCSA extraction was easily achieved via one-shot measurement from a single one-dimensional 13C NMR experiment, with no need for special instruments, devices, and correction. Relying on the biphasic LLC medium, meanwhile, RDC data were simply extracted from a single F1-coupled HSQC experiment, different from the standard protocol that requires two spectral acquisitions corresponding to the isotropic and anisotropic conditions. Collectively, the biphasic LLC medium is applicable for tandem RCSA and RDC measurements in one single sample, advancing the stereochemical elucidation of molecules of interest.
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- Jin-Hao He
- Hubei Engineering Technology Research Centre of Energy Polymer Materials, South-Central Minzu University, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China
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- Hubei Engineering Technology Research Centre of Energy Polymer Materials, South-Central Minzu University, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China
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- Hubei Engineering Technology Research Centre of Energy Polymer Materials, South-Central Minzu University, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China
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- Hubei Engineering Technology Research Centre of Energy Polymer Materials, Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, South-Central Minzu University, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China
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Silva Elipe MV, Ndukwe IE, Murray JI. Cryogen-free 400-MHz nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer as a versatile tool for pharmaceutical process analytical technology. MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN CHEMISTRY : MRC 2024; 62:512-534. [PMID: 38369696 DOI: 10.1002/mrc.5434] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2023] [Revised: 01/15/2024] [Accepted: 01/16/2024] [Indexed: 02/20/2024]
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The discovery of new ceramic materials containing Ba-La-Cu oxides in 1986 that exhibited superconducting properties at high temperatures in the range of 35 K or higher, recognized with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1987, opened a new world of opportunities for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMRs) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRIs) to move away from liquid cryogens. This discovery expands the application of high temperature superconducting (HTS) materials to fields beyond the chemical and medical industries, including electrical power grids, energy, and aerospace. The prototype 400-MHz cryofree HTS NMR spectrometer installed at Amgen's chemistry laboratory has been vital for a variety of applications such as structure analysis, reaction monitoring, and CASE-3D studies with RDCs. The spectrometer has been integrated with Amgen's chemistry and analytical workflows, providing pipeline project support in tandem with other Kinetic Analysis Platform technologies. The 400-MHz cryofree HTS NMR spectrometer, as the name implies, does not require liquid cryogens refills and has smaller footprint that facilitates installation into a chemistry laboratory fume hood, sharing the hood with a process chemistry reactor. Our evaluation of its performance for structural analysis with CASE-3D protocol and for reaction monitoring of Amgen's pipeline chemistry was successful. We envision that the HTS magnets would become part of the standard NMR and MRI spectrometers in the future. We believe that while the technology is being developed, there is room for all magnet options, including HTS, low temperature superconducting (LTS) magnets, and low field benchtop NMRs with permanent magnets, where utilization will be dependent on application type and costs.
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- Department of Attribute Sciences, Process Development, Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, California, USA
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- Pivotal and Commercial Drug Substance Technologies, Process Development, Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, California, USA
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Fuentes-Monteverde JC, Noll M, Das A, Immel S, Reggelin M, Griesinger C, Nath N. Residual-Chemical-Shift-Anisotropy-Based Enantiodifferentiation in Lyotropic Liquid Crystalline Phases Based on Helically Chiral Polyacetylenes. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2023; 62:e202309981. [PMID: 37684219 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202309981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2023] [Revised: 08/25/2023] [Accepted: 09/06/2023] [Indexed: 09/10/2023]
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Anisotropic NMR spectroscopy, revealing residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) and residual chemical shift anisotropies (RCSAs) has emerged as a powerful tool to determine the configurations of synthetic and complex natural compounds. The deduction of the absolute in addition to the relative configuration is one of the primary goals in the field. Therefore, the investigation of the enantiodiscriminating capabilities of chiral alignment media becomes essential. While RDCs and RCSAs are now used for the determination of the relative configuration routinely, RCSAs have not been measured in chiral alignment media such as chiral liquid crystals. Herein, we present this application by measuring RCSAs for chiral analytes such as indanol and isopinocampheol in the lyotropic liquid crystalline phase of an L-valine derived helically chiral polyacetylenes. We have also demonstrated that a single 1D 13 C-{1 H} NMR spectrum suffices to get the RCSAs circumventing the necessity to acquire two spectra at two alignment conditions.
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- Juan Carlos Fuentes-Monteverde
- Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Department of NMR-Based Structural Biology, Am Fassberg 11, 37077, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Darmstadt, Alarich Weiss Straße 4, 64287, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Gauhati University Guwahati, Jalukbari, 781014, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Darmstadt, Alarich Weiss Straße 4, 64287, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Darmstadt, Alarich Weiss Straße 4, 64287, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Department of NMR-Based Structural Biology, Am Fassberg 11, 37077, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Gauhati University Guwahati, Jalukbari, 781014, India
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Silva Elipe MV, Ndukwe IE, Navarro-Vázquez A. Anisotropic NMR data acquisition with a prototype 400 MHz cryogen-free NMR spectrometer. MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN CHEMISTRY : MRC 2023; 61:530-543. [PMID: 37530063 DOI: 10.1002/mrc.5380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2022] [Revised: 06/22/2023] [Accepted: 06/26/2023] [Indexed: 08/03/2023]
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High-temperature superconducting (HTS) materials have recently been incorporated into the construction of HTS cryogen-free magnets for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. These HTS NMR spectrometers do not require liquid cryogens, thereby providing significant cost savings and facilitating easy integration into chemistry laboratories. However, the optimal performance of these HTS magnets against standard cryogen NMR magnets must be evaluated, especially with demanding modern NMR applications such as NMR in anisotropic media. The stability of the HTS magnets over time and their performance with complex pulse sequence experiments are the main unknown factors of this new technology. In this study, we evaluate the utility of our prototype 400 MHz cryogen-free power-driven HTS NMR spectrometer, installed in the fumehood of a chemistry laboratory, for stereochemical analysis of three commercial natural products (artemisinin, artemether, and dihydroartemisinin) via measurement of anisotropic NMR data, in particular, residual dipolar couplings. The accuracy of measurement of the anisotropic NMR data with the HTS magnet spectrometer is evaluated through the CASE-3D fitting protocol, as implemented in the Mestrenova-StereoFitter software program.
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- Departmento de Química Fundamental, Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
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Venturi L, Bua E, Caputo G, Mileo V. Residual Dipolar Coupling Based Conformational Analysis Allows the Configurational Assessment of Steroids with up to Eight Stereocenters. Chempluschem 2023; 88:e202200391. [PMID: 36811319 DOI: 10.1002/cplu.202200391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2022] [Revised: 02/20/2023] [Accepted: 02/21/2023] [Indexed: 02/24/2023]
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Residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) induced by anisotropic media have been proved as a powerful tool for the structure elucidation of organic molecules in solution in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) based analysis. The value of dipolar couplings to solve complex conformational and configurational problems represents indeed an appealing analytical tool for the pharmaceutical industry particularly focusing on the stereochemistry characterization of NCEs since the early phase of the drug development process. In our work, RDCs were used for the conformational and configurational study of synthetic steroids with multiple stereocenters - prednisone and beclomethasone dipropionate (BDP) -. For both molecules the correct relative configuration was identified among all the possible diastereoisomers (32 and 128 respectively) arising from the compounds stereogenic carbons. Only for prednisone the use of additional experimental data (i. e. rOes) was necessary to resolve the right stereochemical structure.
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- Luca Venturi
- Preclinical Analytics and Early Formulations Department, Chiesi Farmaceutici Spa, Largo Belloli 11/A, 43123, Parma, PR, Italy
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- Food and Drug Department, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 27/A, 43124, Parma, PR, Italy
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- Pharmacy Department, University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, Via dei Vestini, 66100, Chieti, CH, Italy
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- Preclinical Analytics and Early Formulations Department, Chiesi Farmaceutici Spa, Largo Belloli 11/A, 43123, Parma, PR, Italy
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Carvalho DS, da Silva DGB, Hallwass F, Navarro-Vázquez A. An Acrylonitrile-Based Copolymer Gel as an NMR Alignment Medium for Extraction of Residual Dipolar Couplings of Small Molecules in Aqueous Solution. Chempluschem 2023; 88:e202200446. [PMID: 36782376 DOI: 10.1002/cplu.202200446] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2022] [Revised: 01/19/2023] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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An NMR weakly-aligning polymer gel has been prepared by copolymerization of acrylonitrile and 2-acrylamide-2-methyl-1-propanesulfonic acid in the presence of 1,4-butanediol diacrylate as a cross-linker. The polymer readily swells in water in a large range of temperatures, although the swelling ratio is decreased in saline solutions. The swollen gel can be mechanically compressed, in a reversible way, generating anisotropy, as easily shown in 2 H NMR experiments, and allowing measurement of 1 DCH residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) through F1-coupled HSQC experiments. The performance of this gel as a NMR alignment medium was evaluated in several water-soluble organic molecules and, while it provided RDCs of proper size for sucrose and even such as small molecule as 5-norbornen-2-ol, in the case of azidothymidine and cefuroxime sodium salt the strong interaction of these molecules with the gel prevented successful extraction of the RDCs.
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- Daiane S Carvalho
- Departamento de Química Fundamental, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Cidade Universitria, CEP, 50.740-540, Recife, PE, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química Fundamental, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Cidade Universitria, CEP, 50.740-540, Recife, PE, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química Fundamental, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Cidade Universitria, CEP, 50.740-540, Recife, PE, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química Fundamental, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Cidade Universitria, CEP, 50.740-540, Recife, PE, Brazil
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Yu G, Wang G, Duan M, Jiang B, Zhang X, Li C, He L, Liu M. Self-Assembled Oligopeptide (FK) 4 as a Chiral Alignment Medium for the Anisotropic NMR Analysis of Organic Compounds. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2022; 14:29223-29229. [PMID: 35712808 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c05506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Anisotropic NMR parameters have been proven to be powerful for the structural elucidation of organic molecules. Herein, we present an alignment medium based on the self-assembled (FK)4 oligopeptide, showing excellent properties in measurements of anisotropic NMR parameters in both D2O and CD3OD. The preparation of the (FK)4-based alignment medium is simple and rapid. The low viscosity of the anisotropic phase makes it easy to be transferred to the NMR tube. The alignment of the oligopeptide is fast, stable, and homogeneous, with weak background signals, permitting the acquirement of high-quality NMR spectra. The performance of this alignment medium in residual dipolar coupling measurements and diastereomer discriminations is demonstrated by analyzing several different analytes. The enantiodiscrimination property of the (FK)4 oligopeptide is revealed by the difference of residual chemical shift anisotropy of the two enantiomers in the 1D 13C spectrum, granting its potential use for the quantification and identification of enantiomers of small molecules.
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- Gangjin Yu
- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic Molecular Physics, Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic Molecular Physics, Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic Molecular Physics, Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic Molecular Physics, Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic Molecular Physics, Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic Molecular Physics, Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic Molecular Physics, Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic Molecular Physics, Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- Optics Valley Laboratory, Hubei 430074, China
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Roth FA, Schmidts V, Rettig J, Thiele CM. Model free analysis of experimental residual dipolar couplings in small organic compounds. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 24:281-286. [PMID: 34881759 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp02324a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
Abstract
Residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) contain information on the relative arrangement and dynamics of internuclear spin vectors in chemical compounds. Classically, RDC data is analyzed by fitting to structure models, while model-free approaches (MFA) directly relate RDCs to the corresponding internuclear vectors. The recently introduced software TITANIA implements the MFA and extracts structure and dynamics parameters directly from RDCs to facilitate de novo structure refinement for small organic compounds. Encouraged by our previous results on simulated data, we herein focus on the prerequisites and challenges faced when using purely experimental data for this approach. These concern mainly the fact that not all couplings are accessible in all media, leading to voids in the RDC matrix and the concomitant effects on the structure refinement. It is shown that RDC data sets obtained experimentally from currently available alignment media and measurement methods are of sufficient quality to allow relative configuration determination even when the relative configuration of the analyte is completely unknown.
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- Felix A Roth
- Clemens-Schöpf-Institut für Organische Chemie und Biochemie, Technical University of Darmstadt, Alarich-Weiss-Str. 16, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany.
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- Clemens-Schöpf-Institut für Organische Chemie und Biochemie, Technical University of Darmstadt, Alarich-Weiss-Str. 16, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany.
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- Clemens-Schöpf-Institut für Organische Chemie und Biochemie, Technical University of Darmstadt, Alarich-Weiss-Str. 16, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany.
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- Clemens-Schöpf-Institut für Organische Chemie und Biochemie, Technical University of Darmstadt, Alarich-Weiss-Str. 16, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany.
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Farley KA, Koos MRM, Che Y, Horst R, Limberakis C, Bellenger J, Lira R, Gil-Silva LF, Gil RR. Cross-Linked Poly-4-Acrylomorpholine: A Flexible and Reversibly Compressible Aligning Gel for Anisotropic NMR Analysis of Peptides and Small Molecules in Water. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 60:26314-26319. [PMID: 34609778 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202106794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Determination of the solution conformation of both small organic molecules and peptides in water remains a substantial hurdle in using NMR solution conformations to guide drug design due to the lack of easy to use alignment media. Herein we report the design of a flexible compressible chemically cross-linked poly-4-acrylomorpholine gel that can be used for the alignment of both small molecules and cyclic peptides in water. To test the new gel, residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) and J-coupling constants were used in the configurational analysis of strychnine hydrochloride, a molecule that has been studied extensively in organic solvents as well as a small cyclic peptide that is known to form an α-helix in water. The conformational ensembles for each molecule with the best fit to the data are reported. Identification of minor conformers in water that cannot easily be determined by conventional NOE measurements will facilitate the use of RDC experiments in structure-based drug design.
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- Kathleen A Farley
- Medicinal Sciences, Pfizer, Eastern Point Road, Groton, CT, 06340, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, 4400 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
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- Medicinal Sciences, Pfizer, Eastern Point Road, Groton, CT, 06340, USA
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- Medicinal Sciences, Pfizer, Eastern Point Road, Groton, CT, 06340, USA
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- Medicinal Sciences, Pfizer, Eastern Point Road, Groton, CT, 06340, USA
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- Medicinal Sciences, Pfizer, Eastern Point Road, Groton, CT, 06340, USA
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- Medicinal Sciences, Pfizer, Eastern Point Road, Groton, CT, 06340, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, 4400 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
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Farley KA, Koos MRM, Che Y, Horst R, Limberakis C, Bellenger J, Lira R, Gil‐Silva LF, Gil RR. Cross‐Linked Poly‐4‐Acrylomorpholine: A Flexible and Reversibly Compressible Aligning Gel for Anisotropic NMR Analysis of Peptides and Small Molecules in Water. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202106794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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- Department of Chemistry Carnegie Mellon University 4400 Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh PA 15213 USA
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- Medicinal Sciences Pfizer Eastern Point Road Groton CT 06340 USA
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- Medicinal Sciences Pfizer Eastern Point Road Groton CT 06340 USA
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- Medicinal Sciences Pfizer Eastern Point Road Groton CT 06340 USA
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- Medicinal Sciences Pfizer Eastern Point Road Groton CT 06340 USA
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- Medicinal Sciences Pfizer Eastern Point Road Groton CT 06340 USA
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- Department of Chemistry Carnegie Mellon University 4400 Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh PA 15213 USA
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Roth FA, Schmidts V, Thiele CM. TITANIA: Model-Free Interpretation of Residual Dipolar Couplings in the Context of Organic Compounds. J Org Chem 2021; 86:15387-15402. [PMID: 34677977 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.1c01926] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) become increasingly important as additional NMR parameters in the structure elucidation of organic compounds but are usually used in fitting procedures to discriminate between (computed) structures that are in accordance with RDCs and others that can be ruled out. Thus, the determination of configurations requires prior structural information. The direct use of RDCs as restraints to construct structures based on RDCs has only recently begun also in organic compounds. No protocol has been published though that uses the vector and dynamics information available in multialignment data sets directly for the joint determination of conformation and configuration of organic compounds. This is proposed in the current study. We show that by employing these data, even a flat or random start structure converges into the correctly configured structure when employing multiple alignment data sets in our iterative procedure. The requirements in terms of the number of RDCs and alignment media necessary are discussed in detail.
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- Felix A Roth
- Clemens-Schöpf-Institut für Organische Chemie und Biochemie, Technical University of Darmstadt, Alarich-Weiss-Str. 16, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Clemens-Schöpf-Institut für Organische Chemie und Biochemie, Technical University of Darmstadt, Alarich-Weiss-Str. 16, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Clemens-Schöpf-Institut für Organische Chemie und Biochemie, Technical University of Darmstadt, Alarich-Weiss-Str. 16, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
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Pedersen KD, Zhang J, Gotfredsen CH. Practical considerations for working with graphene oxide as alignment media for RDC measurements. MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN CHEMISTRY : MRC 2021; 59:738-745. [PMID: 33656175 DOI: 10.1002/mrc.5143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2020] [Revised: 02/20/2021] [Accepted: 02/23/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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- Katja D Pedersen
- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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de Melo Sousa CM, Giordani RB, de Almeida WAM, Griesinger C, Gil RR, Navarro-Vázquez A, Hallwass F. Effect of the solvent on the conformation of monocrotaline as determined by isotropic and anisotropic NMR parameters. MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN CHEMISTRY : MRC 2021; 59:561-568. [PMID: 31715029 DOI: 10.1002/mrc.4968] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2019] [Revised: 10/25/2019] [Accepted: 11/04/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The conformation in solution of monocrotaline, a pyrrolizidine alkaloid presenting an eleven-membered macrocyclic diester ring, has been investigated using a combination of isotropic and anisotropic nuclear magnetic resonance parameters measured in four solvents of different polarity (D2 O, DMSO-d6 , CDCl3 , and C6 D6 ). Anisotropic nuclear magnetic resonance parameters were measured in different alignment media, based on their compatibility with the solvent of interest: cromoglycate liquid crystal solution was used for D2 O, whereas a poly (methyl methacrylate) polymer gel was chosen for CDCl3 and C6 D6 , and a poly (hydroxyethyl methacrylate) gel for DMSO-d6 . Whereas the pyrrolizidine ring shows an E6 exo-puckered conformation in all of the solvents, the macrocyclic eleven-membered ring adopts different populations of syn-parallel and anti-parallel relative orientation of the carbonyl groups according to the polarity of the solvent.
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- Cleyton Marcos de Melo Sousa
- Departamento de Química Fundamental, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
- Instituto Federal de Pernambuco, Caruaru, Pernambuco, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Farmacognosia, Departamento de Farmácia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
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- Abteilung für NMR-basierte Strukturbiologie, Max-Planck-Institut für Biophysikalische Chemie, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Departamento de Química Fundamental, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química Fundamental, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
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Das A, Nath N. Elucidating natural product structures using a robust measurement of carbon residual chemical shift anisotropy combined with DFT. MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN CHEMISTRY : MRC 2021; 59:569-576. [PMID: 31758720 DOI: 10.1002/mrc.4975] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2019] [Revised: 08/20/2019] [Accepted: 08/31/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Determination of configurations and conformations is an important step in the structural characterization of small molecules. Apart from utilizing isotropic J-couplings and nuclear overhauser effect (NOEs) measured in isotropic solution, anisotropic Nuclear Magnetic resonance (NMR) data such as residual dipolar couplings and residual chemical shift anisotropies (RCSAs) were also used to elucidate complex small molecule structures. Measuring RCSA has always been historically difficult due to the isotropic shift effect accompanied by molecular alignment and therefore only occasionally applied in a few examples. Here, we present a robust measurement of carbon RCSAs using a smaller gel-stretching device to determine the structures of a few small molecules. A systematic study on how different density functional theory computed anisotropies of the chemical shift anisotropy tensors impact RCSA data interpretation has also been discussed. We also discuss the effect of utilizing various carbons as reference nuclei for RCSA data extraction as well as the orientation behavior of estrone in orthogonal alignment media.
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- Akhi Das
- Department of Chemistry, Gauhati University, Guwahati, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Gauhati University, Guwahati, India
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da Silva DGB, Hallwass F, Navarro-Vázquez A. Single experiment measurement of residual dipolar couplings in aqueous solution using a biphasic bisperylene imide chromonic liquid crystal. MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN CHEMISTRY : MRC 2021; 59:408-413. [PMID: 33295034 DOI: 10.1002/mrc.5120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2020] [Revised: 12/01/2020] [Accepted: 12/06/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The use of the biphasic isotropic/nematic region in a bisperylene imide-based lyotropic liquid crystal system allows the extraction of proton-carbon 1 DCH residual dipolar couplings in aqueous solution from a single F1-coupled HSQC experiment. The method was successfully applied to the RDC-based conformational analysis of sucrose.
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- Danilo G B da Silva
- Departamento de Química Fundamental, CCEN, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química Fundamental, CCEN, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química Fundamental, CCEN, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
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Recchia MJJ, Cohen RD, Liu Y, Sherer EC, Harper JK, Martin GE, Williamson RT. "One-Shot" Measurement of Residual Chemical Shift Anisotropy Using Poly-γ-benzyl-l-glutamate as an Alignment Medium. Org Lett 2020; 22:8850-8854. [PMID: 33140974 DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c03225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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A method for the measurement of residual chemical shift anisotropy in one experiment using a biphasic isotropic/anisotropic lyotropic liquid crystalline medium based on poly-γ-benzyl-l-glutamate as the alignment medium is presented. This approach is demonstrated on the model compound strychnine and neotricone, a depsidone natural product with a questionable structural assignment based on comparison with the closely related excelsione and in-depth density functional theory calculations.
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- Michael J J Recchia
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina 28409, United States
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- Analytical Research & Development, Merck & Company Inc., Rahway, New Jersey 07065, United States
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- Analytical Research & Development, Pfizer Worldwide Research and Development, Groton, Connecticut 06340, United States
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- Analytical Research & Development, Merck & Company Inc., Rahway, New Jersey 07065, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey 07079, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina 28409, United States
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Horst R, Farley KA, Kormos BL, Withka JM. NMR spectroscopy: the swiss army knife of drug discovery. JOURNAL OF BIOMOLECULAR NMR 2020; 74:509-519. [PMID: 32617727 DOI: 10.1007/s10858-020-00330-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2020] [Accepted: 06/25/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has evolved into a powerful tool within drug discovery over the last two decades. While traditionally being used by medicinal chemists for small molecule structure elucidation, it can also be a valuable tool for the identification of small molecules that bind to drug targets, for the characterization of target-ligand interactions and for hit-to-lead optimization. Here, we describe how NMR spectroscopy is integrated into the Pfizer drug discovery pipeline and how we utilize this approach to identify and validate initial hits and generate leads.
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- Reto Horst
- Medicinal Sciences, Pfizer, Eastern Point Road, Groton, CT, 06340, USA.
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- Medicinal Sciences, Pfizer, Eastern Point Road, Groton, CT, 06340, USA
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- Medicinal Sciences, Pfizer, 610 Main St., Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
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- Medicinal Sciences, Pfizer, 610 Main St., Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
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Lesot P, Gil RR, Berdagué P, Navarro-Vázquez A. Deuterium Residual Quadrupolar Couplings: Crossing the Current Frontiers in the Relative Configuration Analysis of Natural Products. JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS 2020; 83:3141-3148. [PMID: 32970418 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.0c00745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The determination of the 3D structure (configuration and preferred conformation) of complex natural and synthetic organic molecules is a long-standing but still challenging task for chemists, with various implications in pharmaceutical sciences whether or not these substances have specific bioactivities. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in aligning media, either lyotropic liquid crystals (LLCs) or polymer gels, in combination with molecular modeling is a unique framework for solving complex structural problems whose analytical wealth lies in the establishment of nonlocal structural correlations. As an alternative to the already well-established anisotropic NMR parameters, such as RDCs (residual dipolar couplings) and RCSAs (residual chemical shift anisotropies), it is shown here that deuterium residual quadrupolar couplings (2H-RQCs) can be extracted from 2H 2D-NMR spectra recorded at the natural abundance level in samples oriented in a homopolypeptide LLCs (poly-γ-benzyl-l-glutamate (PBLG)). These 2H-RQCs were successfully used to address nontrivial structural problems in organic molecules. The performance and scope of this new tool is examined for two natural chiral compounds of pharmaceutical interest (strychnine and artemisinin). This is the first report in which the 3D structure/relative configuration of complex bioactive molecules is unambiguously determined using only 2H-RQCs, which, in this case, are at 2H natural abundance.
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- Philippe Lesot
- Université Paris-Saclay, UFR d'Orsay, RMN en Milieu Orienté, ICMMO, UMR CNRS 8182, Bât. 410, 15 rue du Doyen, Georges Poitou, F-91405 Orsay, France
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 3 rue Michel Ange, F-75016 Paris, France
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- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Université Paris-Saclay, UFR d'Orsay, RMN en Milieu Orienté, ICMMO, UMR CNRS 8182, Bât. 410, 15 rue du Doyen, Georges Poitou, F-91405 Orsay, France
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- Departamento de Química Fundamental, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Cidade Universitária, CEP 50.740-540 Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
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Ndukwe IE, Lam YH, Pandey SK, Haug BE, Bayer A, Sherer EC, Blinov KA, Williamson RT, Isaksson J, Reibarkh M, Liu Y, Martin GE. Unequivocal structure confirmation of a breitfussin analog by anisotropic NMR measurements. Chem Sci 2020; 11:12081-12088. [PMID: 34094423 PMCID: PMC8162999 DOI: 10.1039/d0sc03664a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Structural features of proton-deficient heteroaromatic natural products, such as the breitfussins, can severely complicate their characterization by NMR spectroscopy. For the breitfussins in particular, the constitution of the five-membered oxazole central ring cannot be unequivocally established via conventional NMR methods when the 4′-position is halogenated. The level of difficulty is exacerbated by 4′-iodination, as the accuracy with which theoretical NMR parameters are determined relies extensively on computational treatment of the relativistic effects of the iodine atom. It is demonstrated in the present study, that the structure of a 4′-iodo breitfussin analog can be unequivocally established by anisotropic NMR methods, by adopting a reduced singular value decomposition (SVD) protocol that leverages the planar structures exhibited by its conformers. Structural features of proton-deficient heteroaromatic natural products, such as the breitfussins, can severely complicate their characterization by NMR spectroscopy.![]()
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- Ikenna E Ndukwe
- Analytical Research & Development, (Rahway), Merck & Co. Inc. Kenilworth NJ USA
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- Computational and Structural Chemistry, Merck & Co., Inc. Rahway NJ 07065 USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Centre for Pharmacy, University of Bergen Allégaten 41 NO-5020 Bergen Norway
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- Department of Chemistry and Centre for Pharmacy, University of Bergen Allégaten 41 NO-5020 Bergen Norway
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- Department of Chemistry, UiT the Arctic University of Tromsø NO-9037 Tromsø Norway
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- Analytical Research & Development, (Rahway), Merck & Co. Inc. Kenilworth NJ USA
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- MestReLab Research S. L. Santiago de Compostela A Coruna 15706 Spain
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- Analytical Research & Development, (Rahway), Merck & Co. Inc. Kenilworth NJ USA
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- Department of Chemistry, UiT the Arctic University of Tromsø NO-9037 Tromsø Norway
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- Analytical Research & Development, (Rahway), Merck & Co. Inc. Kenilworth NJ USA
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- Analytical Research & Development, (Rahway), Merck & Co. Inc. Kenilworth NJ USA
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- Analytical Research & Development, (Rahway), Merck & Co. Inc. Kenilworth NJ USA
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Qin S, Jiang Y, Sun H, Liu H, Zhang A, Lei X. Measurement of Residual Dipolar Couplings of Organic Molecules in Multiple Solvent Systems Using a Liquid‐Crystalline‐Based Medium. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202007243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Si‐Yong Qin
- Key Laboratory of Catalysis and Energy Materials Chemistry of Ministry of Education & Hubei Key Laboratory of Catalysis and Materials Science South-Central University for Nationalities Wuhan 430074 China
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- Key Laboratory of Catalysis and Energy Materials Chemistry of Ministry of Education & Hubei Key Laboratory of Catalysis and Materials Science South-Central University for Nationalities Wuhan 430074 China
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- Section of Structural Biology Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) 13125 Berlin Germany
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences South-Central University for Nationalities Wuhan 430074 China
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- Key Laboratory of Catalysis and Energy Materials Chemistry of Ministry of Education & Hubei Key Laboratory of Catalysis and Materials Science South-Central University for Nationalities Wuhan 430074 China
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- Key Laboratory of Catalysis and Energy Materials Chemistry of Ministry of Education & Hubei Key Laboratory of Catalysis and Materials Science South-Central University for Nationalities Wuhan 430074 China
- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences South-Central University for Nationalities Wuhan 430074 China
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Relative configuration of micrograms of natural compounds using proton residual chemical shift anisotropy. Nat Commun 2020; 11:4372. [PMID: 32873801 PMCID: PMC7463026 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18093-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2019] [Accepted: 07/28/2020] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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3D molecular structure determination is a challenge for organic compounds or natural products available in minute amounts. Proton/proton and proton/carbon correlations yield the constitution. J couplings and NOEs oftentimes supported by one-bond 1H,13C residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) or by 13C residual chemical shift anisotropies (RCSAs) provide the relative configuration. However, these RDCs or carbon RCSAs rely on 1% natural abundance of 13C preventing their use for compounds available only in quantities of a few 10’s of µgs. By contrast, 1H RCSAs provide similar information on spatial orientation of structural moieties within a molecule, while using the abundant 1H spin. Herein, 1H RCSAs are accurately measured using constrained aligning gels or liquid crystals and applied to the 3D structural determination of molecules with varying complexities. Even more, deuterated alignment media allow the elucidation of the relative configuration of around 35 µg of a briarane compound isolated from Briareum asbestinum. Determination of 3D molecular structures remains challenging for natural products or organic compounds available in minute amounts. Here, the authors determine the structure of complex molecules, including few micrograms of briarane B-3 isolated from Briareum asbestinums, through measurement of 1H residual chemical shift anisotropy.
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Qin S, Jiang Y, Sun H, Liu H, Zhang A, Lei X. Measurement of Residual Dipolar Couplings of Organic Molecules in Multiple Solvent Systems Using a Liquid‐Crystalline‐Based Medium. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020; 59:17097-17103. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.202007243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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- Si‐Yong Qin
- Key Laboratory of Catalysis and Energy Materials Chemistry of Ministry of Education & Hubei Key Laboratory of Catalysis and Materials Science South-Central University for Nationalities Wuhan 430074 China
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- Key Laboratory of Catalysis and Energy Materials Chemistry of Ministry of Education & Hubei Key Laboratory of Catalysis and Materials Science South-Central University for Nationalities Wuhan 430074 China
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- Section of Structural Biology Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) 13125 Berlin Germany
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences South-Central University for Nationalities Wuhan 430074 China
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- Key Laboratory of Catalysis and Energy Materials Chemistry of Ministry of Education & Hubei Key Laboratory of Catalysis and Materials Science South-Central University for Nationalities Wuhan 430074 China
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- Key Laboratory of Catalysis and Energy Materials Chemistry of Ministry of Education & Hubei Key Laboratory of Catalysis and Materials Science South-Central University for Nationalities Wuhan 430074 China
- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences South-Central University for Nationalities Wuhan 430074 China
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Köck M, Reggelin M, Immel S. The Advanced Floating Chirality Distance Geometry Approach-How Anisotropic NMR Parameters Can Support the Determination of the Relative Configuration of Natural Products. Mar Drugs 2020; 18:md18060330. [PMID: 32599876 PMCID: PMC7344786 DOI: 10.3390/md18060330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2020] [Revised: 06/16/2020] [Accepted: 06/18/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The configurational analysis of complex natural products by NMR spectroscopy is still a challenging task. The assignment of the relative configuration is usually carried out by analysis of interproton distances from NOESY or ROESY spectra (qualitative or quantitative) and scalar (J) couplings. About 15 years ago, residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) were introduced as a tool for the configurational determination of small organic molecules. In contrast to NOEs/ROEs which are local parameters (distances up to 400 pm can be detected for small organic molecules), RDCs are global parameters which allow to obtain structural information also from long-range relationships. RDCs have the disadvantage that the sample needs a setup in an alignment medium in order to obtain the required anisotropic environment. Here, we will discuss the configurational analysis of five complex natural products: axinellamine A (1), tetrabromostyloguanidine (2), 3,7-epi-massadine chloride (3), tubocurarine (4), and vincristine (5). Compounds 1-3 are marine natural products whereas 4 and 5 are from terrestrial sources. The chosen examples will carefully work out the limitations of NOEs/ROEs in the configurational analysis of natural products and will also provide an outlook on the information obtained from RDCs.
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- Matthias Köck
- Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar-und Meeresforschung in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft, Am Handelshafen 12, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany
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- Clemens-Schöpf-Institut für Organische Chemie und Biochemie, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Alarich-Weiss-Straße 4, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Clemens-Schöpf-Institut für Organische Chemie und Biochemie, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Alarich-Weiss-Straße 4, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
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Ma ZK, Han XY, Liu H, Ji JC, Qin SY, Li XD, Lei X. Lyotropic liquid crystal to measure residual dipolar couplings in dimethyl sulfoxide based on modified cellulose nanocrystals. NEW J CHEM 2020. [DOI: 10.1039/c9nj06031f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A novel lyotropic liquid crystal was developed for the measurement of RDCs of organic molecules with no background signals.
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- Zong-Kai Ma
- Key Laboratory of Catalysis and Energy Materials Chemistry of Ministry of Education & Hubei Key Laboratory of Catalysis and Materials Science
- South-Central University for Nationalities
- Wuhan 430074
- P. R. China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- South-Central University for Nationalities
- Wuhan
- P. R. China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- South-Central University for Nationalities
- Wuhan
- P. R. China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- South-Central University for Nationalities
- Wuhan
- P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Catalysis and Energy Materials Chemistry of Ministry of Education & Hubei Key Laboratory of Catalysis and Materials Science
- South-Central University for Nationalities
- Wuhan 430074
- P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Catalysis and Energy Materials Chemistry of Ministry of Education & Hubei Key Laboratory of Catalysis and Materials Science
- South-Central University for Nationalities
- Wuhan 430074
- P. R. China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- South-Central University for Nationalities
- Wuhan
- P. R. China
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Nugroho AE, Morita H. Computationally-assisted discovery and structure elucidation of natural products. J Nat Med 2019; 73:687-695. [PMID: 31093833 PMCID: PMC6713678 DOI: 10.1007/s11418-019-01321-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2019] [Accepted: 05/07/2019] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Computer hardware development coupled with the development of quantum chemistry, new computational models and algorithms, and user-friendly interfaces have lowered the barriers to the use of computation in the discovery and structure elucidation of natural products. Consequently, the use of computational chemistry software as a tool to discover and determine the structure of natural products has become more common in recent years. In this review, we provide several examples of recent studies that used computer technology to facilitate the discovery and structure determination of various natural products.
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- Alfarius Eko Nugroho
- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hoshi University, Ebara 2-4-41 Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, 142-8501, Japan
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hoshi University, Ebara 2-4-41 Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, 142-8501, Japan.
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Carvalho DS, da Silva DGB, Hallwass F, Navarro-Vázquez A. Chemically cross-linked polyacrylonitrile. A DMSO compatible NMR alignment medium for measurement of residual dipolar couplings and residual chemical shift anisotropies. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2019; 302:21-27. [PMID: 30933840 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2019.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2019] [Revised: 03/09/2019] [Accepted: 03/14/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Chemically cross-linked polyacrylontrile polymer gels, have been prepared as an alignment medium compatible with DMSO-d6. These gels allow measurement of residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) and residual chemical shift anisotropies (RCSAs) with good accuracy as tested with brucine and α-santonin natural compounds. The gels can be reversibly compressed allowing easy measurement of RCSAs. They also present good physical homogeneity, clean HSQC spectra with little background 1H signals, and allow unambiguous referencing of 13C spectra for RCSA extraction.
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- Daiane S Carvalho
- Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Departamento de Química Fundamental, CCEN, Recife, Pernambuco 50670-901, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Departamento de Química Fundamental, CCEN, Recife, Pernambuco 50670-901, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Departamento de Química Fundamental, CCEN, Recife, Pernambuco 50670-901, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Departamento de Química Fundamental, CCEN, Recife, Pernambuco 50670-901, Brazil.
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Farley KA, Che Y, Navarro-Vázquez A, Limberakis C, Anderson D, Yan J, Shapiro M, Shanmugasundaram V, Gil RR. Cyclic Peptide Design Guided by Residual Dipolar Couplings, J-Couplings, and Intramolecular Hydrogen Bond Analysis. J Org Chem 2019; 84:4803-4813. [PMID: 30605335 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.8b02811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Cyclic peptides have long tantalized drug designers with their potential ability to combine the best attributes of antibodies and small molecules. An ideal cyclic peptide drug candidate would be able to recognize a protein surface like an antibody while achieving the oral bioavailability of a small molecule. It has been hypothesized that such cyclic peptides balance permeability and solubility using their solvent-dependent conformational flexibility. Herein we report a conformational deconvolution NMR methodology that combines residual dipolar couplings, J-couplings, and intramolecular hydrogen bond analysis along with conformational analysis using molecular dynamics simulations and density functional theory calculations for studying cyclic peptide conformations in both low-dielectric solvent (chloroform) and high-dielectric solvent (DMSO) to experimentally study the solvent-dependent conformational change hypothesis. Taken together, the combined experimental and computational approaches can illuminate conformational ensembles of cyclic peptides in solution and help identify design opportunities for better permeability.
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- Kathleen A Farley
- Medicinal Sciences, Pfizer Worldwide R&D , Eastern Point Road , Groton , Connecticut 06340 , United States
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- Medicinal Sciences, Pfizer Worldwide R&D , Eastern Point Road , Groton , Connecticut 06340 , United States
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- Departamento de Química Fundamental, CCEN , Universidade Federal de Pernambuco , Cidade Universitária, Recife , PE 50740-560 , Brazil
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- Medicinal Sciences, Pfizer Worldwide R&D , Eastern Point Road , Groton , Connecticut 06340 , United States
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- Medicinal Sciences, Pfizer Worldwide R&D , Eastern Point Road , Groton , Connecticut 06340 , United States
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- Medicinal Sciences, Pfizer Worldwide R&D , Eastern Point Road , Groton , Connecticut 06340 , United States
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- Medicinal Sciences, Pfizer Worldwide R&D , Eastern Point Road , Groton , Connecticut 06340 , United States
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- Medicinal Sciences, Pfizer Worldwide R&D , Eastern Point Road , Groton , Connecticut 06340 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
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Application of anisotropic NMR parameters to the confirmation of molecular structure. Nat Protoc 2018; 14:217-247. [DOI: 10.1038/s41596-018-0091-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Schwab M, Schmidts V, Thiele CM. Thermoresponsive Alignment Media in NMR Spectroscopy: Helix Reversal of a Copolyaspartate at Ambient Temperatures. Chemistry 2018; 24:14373-14377. [PMID: 29999196 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201803540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2018] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Poly(aspartic acid esters) are known to form either right-or left-handed α-helices depending on the ester group in the side chain, on solvent and/or on temperature. Polyphenethyl-l-aspartates (PPLA) exhibit a helix reversal from the right- to the left-handed form with increasing temperature. We have recently reported the application of polyphenethylaspartates as helically chiral alignment media. The thermoresponsivity observed for these polymers offers the possibility to measure different orientations of analytes before and after helix reversal of the alignment medium at 373 K. Herein we present a synthesized copolymer of phenethyl- and benzylaspartate as a new alignment medium undergoing this helix reversal at 303-313 K. Thus, the measurement of residual dipolar couplings (RDC) before and after the helix reversal is allowed for at ambient temperatures. A complete sign change of all 1 H-13 C RDCs was observed, which is close to the highest possible difference in NMR spectra.
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- Mira Schwab
- Clemens-Schöpf Institut für Organische Chemie und Biochemie, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Alarich-Weiss-Straße 4, 64287, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Clemens-Schöpf Institut für Organische Chemie und Biochemie, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Alarich-Weiss-Straße 4, 64287, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Clemens-Schöpf Institut für Organische Chemie und Biochemie, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Alarich-Weiss-Straße 4, 64287, Darmstadt, Germany
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Li GW, Liu H, Qiu F, Wang XJ, Lei XX. Residual Dipolar Couplings in Structure Determination of Natural Products. NATURAL PRODUCTS AND BIOPROSPECTING 2018; 8:279-295. [PMID: 29943349 PMCID: PMC6102172 DOI: 10.1007/s13659-018-0174-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2018] [Accepted: 06/14/2018] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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The determination of natural products stereochemistry remains a formidable task. Residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) induced by anisotropic media are a powerful tool for determination of the stereochemistry of organic molecule in solution. This review will provide a short introduction on RDCs-based methodology for the structural elucidation of natural products. Special attention is given to the current availability of alignment media in organic solvents. The applications of RDCs for structural analysis of some examples of natural products were discussed and summarized. This review provides a short introduction on RDCs-based methodology for the structural elucidation of natural products. Special attention is given to the current availability of alignment media in organic solvents. The applications of RDCs for structural analysis of some examples of natural products were discussed and summarized.
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- Gao-Wei Li
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shangqiu Normal University, Shangqiu, 476000, People's Republic of China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, South Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, 430074, People's Republic of China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, South Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, 430074, People's Republic of China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shangqiu Normal University, Shangqiu, 476000, People's Republic of China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, South Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, 430074, People's Republic of China.
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Liu Y, Cohen RD, Martin GE, Williamson RT. A practical strategy for the accurate measurement of residual dipolar couplings in strongly aligned small molecules. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2018; 291:63-72. [PMID: 29723716 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2018.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2018] [Revised: 04/05/2018] [Accepted: 04/05/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Accurate measurement of residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) requires an appropriate degree of alignment in order to optimize data quality. An overly weak alignment yields very small anisotropic data that are susceptible to measurement errors, whereas an overly strong alignment introduces extensive anisotropic effects that severely degrade spectral quality. The ideal alignment amplitude also depends on the specific pulse sequence used for the coupling measurement. In this work, we introduce a practical strategy for the accurate measurement of one-bond 13C-1H RDCs up to a range of ca. -300 to +300 Hz, corresponding to an alignment that is an order of magnitude stronger than typically employed for small molecule structural elucidation. This strong alignment was generated in the mesophase of the commercially available poly-γ-(benzyl-L-glutamate) polymer. The total coupling was measured by the simple and well-studied heteronuclear two-dimensional J-resolved experiment, which performs well in the presence of strong anisotropic effects. In order to unequivocally determine the sign of the total coupling and resolve ambiguities in assigning total couplings in the CH2 group, coupling measurements were conducted at an isotropic condition plus two anisotropic conditions of different alignment amplitudes. Most RDCs could be readily extracted from these measurements whereas more complicated spectral effects resulting from strong homonuclear coupling could be interpreted either theoretically or by simulation. Importantly, measurement of these very large RDCs actually offers significantly improved data quality and utility for the structure determination of small organic molecules.
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- Yizhou Liu
- Structure Elucidation Group, Process and Analytical Research and Development, Merck & Co. Inc., 126 East Lincoln Avenue, Rahway, NJ 07065, USA.
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- Structure Elucidation Group, Process and Analytical Research and Development, Merck & Co. Inc., 126 East Lincoln Avenue, Rahway, NJ 07065, USA
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- Structure Elucidation Group, Process and Analytical Research and Development, Merck & Co. Inc., 126 East Lincoln Avenue, Rahway, NJ 07065, USA
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- Structure Elucidation Group, Process and Analytical Research and Development, Merck & Co. Inc., 126 East Lincoln Avenue, Rahway, NJ 07065, USA
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Marcó N, Gil RR, Parella T. Isotropic/Anisotropic NMR Editing by Resolution-Enhanced NMR Spectroscopy. Chemphyschem 2018; 19:1024-1029. [PMID: 29384256 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201800094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2018] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Modern resolution-enhanced NMR techniques can monitor the in situ discrimination of co-existing isotropic and anisotropic contributions of small molecules dissolved in weakly aligning PMMA/CDCl3 media. The simultaneous sign-sensitive determination of accurate Δδiso-aniso (1 H), Δδiso-aniso (13 C) and/or isotropic 1 JCH and anisotropic 1 TCH coupling constants (and consequently 1 H-13 C residual dipolar couplings and 1 H/13 C residual chemical shift anisotropies) can be performed from spectral-aliased heteronuclear single-quantum correlation spectra.
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- Núria Marcó
- Servei de Ressonància Magnètica Nuclear, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 15213, PA, USA
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- Servei de Ressonància Magnètica Nuclear, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
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Hallwass F, Teles RR, Hellemann E, Griesinger C, Gil RR, Navarro-Vázquez A. Measurement of residual chemical shift anisotropies in compressed polymethylmethacrylate gels. Automatic compensation of gel isotropic shift contribution. MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN CHEMISTRY : MRC 2018; 56:321-328. [PMID: 29327368 DOI: 10.1002/mrc.4711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2017] [Revised: 12/29/2017] [Accepted: 12/31/2017] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Mechanical compression of polymer gels provides a simple way for the measurement of residual chemical shift anisotropies, which then can be employed, on its own, or in combination with residual dipolar couplings, for structural elucidation purposes. Residual chemical shift anisotropies measured using compression devices needed a posteriori correction to account for the increase of the polymer to solvent ratio inside the swollen gel. This correction has been cast before in terms of a single-free parameter which, as shown here, can be simultaneously optimized along with the components of the alignment tensor while still retaining discriminating power of the different relative configurations as illustrated in the stereochemical analysis of α-santonin and 10-epi-8-deoxycumambrin B.
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- Fernando Hallwass
- Departamento de Química Fundamental, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Avenida Professor Moraes Rego, 1235, Cidade Universitária, 50670-901, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
- Department of NMR-based Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Fassberg 11, Göttingen, 37077, Germany
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- Departamento de Química Fundamental, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Avenida Professor Moraes Rego, 1235, Cidade Universitária, 50670-901, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
- Instituto Federal da Paraíba, Campus Princesa Isabel, Rodovia PB 426, s/no, Princesa Isabel, CEP 58755-000, Paraíba, Brazil
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- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, 4400 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
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- Department of NMR-based Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Fassberg 11, Göttingen, 37077, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, 4400 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
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- Departamento de Química Fundamental, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Avenida Professor Moraes Rego, 1235, Cidade Universitária, 50670-901, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
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Parella T. Current developments in homonuclear and heteronuclear J-resolved NMR experiments. MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN CHEMISTRY : MRC 2018; 56:230-250. [PMID: 29314247 DOI: 10.1002/mrc.4706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2017] [Revised: 12/12/2017] [Accepted: 12/12/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Two-dimensional J-resolved (Jres) NMR experiments offer a simple, user-friendly spectral representation where the information of coupling constants and chemical shifts are separated into two orthogonal frequency axis. Since its initial proposal 40 years ago, Jres has been the focus of considerable interest both in improving the basic pulse sequence and in its successful application to a wide range of studies. Here, the latest developments in the design of novel Jres pulse schemes are reviewed, mainly focusing on obtaining pure absorption lineshapes, minimizing strong coupling artifacts, and also optimizing sensitivity and experimental measurements. A discussion of several Jres versions for the accurate measurement of a different number of homonuclear (JHH ) and heteronuclear (JCH ) coupling constants is presented, accompanied by some illustrative examples.
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- Teodor Parella
- Servei de Ressonància Magnètica Nuclear, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E-08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Liu Y, Saurí J, Mevers E, Peczuh MW, Hiemstra H, Clardy J, Martin GE, Williamson RT. Unequivocal determination of complex molecular structures using anisotropic NMR measurements. Science 2017; 356:356/6333/eaam5349. [PMID: 28385960 DOI: 10.1126/science.aam5349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2016] [Accepted: 02/16/2017] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Assignment of complex molecular structures from nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) data can be prone to interpretational mistakes. Residual dipolar couplings and residual chemical shift anisotropy provide a spatial view of the relative orientations between bonds and chemical shielding tensors, respectively, regardless of separation. Consequently, these data constitute a reliable reporter of global structural validity. Anisotropic NMR parameters can be used to evaluate investigators' structure proposals or structures generated by computer-assisted structure elucidation. Application of the method to several complex structure assignment problems shows promising results that signal a potential paradigm shift from conventional NMR data interpretation, which may be of particular utility for compounds not amenable to x-ray crystallography.
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- Yizhou Liu
- Structure Elucidation Group, Process and Analytical Research and Development, Merck & Co., Inc., 2000 Galloping Hill Road, Kenilworth, NJ 07033, USA
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- Structure Elucidation Group, Process and Analytical Research and Development, Merck & Co., Inc., 33 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, 55 North Eagleville Road, Unit 3060, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
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- Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Structure Elucidation Group, Process and Analytical Research and Development, Merck & Co., Inc., 126 East Lincoln Avenue, Rahway, NJ 07065, USA.
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- Structure Elucidation Group, Process and Analytical Research and Development, Merck & Co., Inc., 126 East Lincoln Avenue, Rahway, NJ 07065, USA.
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Milanowski DJ, Oku N, Cartner LK, Bokesch HR, Williamson RT, Saurí J, Liu Y, Blinov KA, Ding Y, Li XC, Ferreira D, Walker LA, Khan S, Davies-Coleman MT, Kelley JA, McMahon JB, Martin GE, Gustafson KR. Unequivocal determination of caulamidines A and B: application and validation of new tools in the structure elucidation tool box. Chem Sci 2017; 9:307-314. [PMID: 29619201 PMCID: PMC5868047 DOI: 10.1039/c7sc01996c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2017] [Accepted: 11/03/2017] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Newly described NMR experimental approaches can provide valuable structural details and a complementary means of structure verification.
Ambiguities and errors in the structural assignment of organic molecules hinder both drug discovery and total synthesis efforts. Newly described NMR experimental approaches can provide valuable structural details and a complementary means of structure verification. The caulamidines are trihalogenated alkaloids from a marine bryozoan with an unprecedented structural scaffold. Their unique carbon and nitrogen framework was deduced by conventional NMR methods supplemented by new experiments that define 2-bond heteronuclear connectivities, reveal very long-range connectivity data, or visualize the 35,37Cl isotopic effect on chlorinated carbons. Computer-assisted structural elucidation (CASE) analysis of the spectroscopic data for caulamidine A provided only one viable structural alternative. Anisotropic NMR parameters, specifically residual dipolar coupling and residual chemical shift anisotropy data, were measured for caulamidine A and compared to DFT-calculated values for the proposed structure, the CASE-derived alternative structure, and two energetically feasible stereoisomers. Anisotropy-based NMR experiments provide a global, orthogonal means to verify complex structures free from investigator bias. The anisotropic NMR data were fully consistent with the assigned structure and configuration of caulamidine A. Caulamidine B has the same heterocyclic scaffold as A but a different composition and pattern of halogen substitution. Caulamidines A and B inhibited both wild-type and drug-resistant strains of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum at low micromolar concentrations, yet were nontoxic to human cells.
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- Dennis J Milanowski
- Molecular Targets Laboratory , Center for Cancer Research , National Cancer Institute , Frederick , Maryland 21702-1201 , USA .
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- Molecular Targets Laboratory , Center for Cancer Research , National Cancer Institute , Frederick , Maryland 21702-1201 , USA .
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- Molecular Targets Laboratory , Center for Cancer Research , National Cancer Institute , Frederick , Maryland 21702-1201 , USA . .,Basic Science Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc. , Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research , Frederick , Maryland 21702-1201 , USA
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- Molecular Targets Laboratory , Center for Cancer Research , National Cancer Institute , Frederick , Maryland 21702-1201 , USA . .,Basic Science Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc. , Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research , Frederick , Maryland 21702-1201 , USA
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- Structure Elucidation Group, Process and Analytical Research and Development , Merck & Co. Inc. , Rahway , New Jersey 07065 , USA .
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- Structure Elucidation Group, Process and Analytical Research and Development , Merck & Co. Inc. , Rahway , New Jersey 07065 , USA .
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- Structure Elucidation Group, Process and Analytical Research and Development , Merck & Co. Inc. , Rahway , New Jersey 07065 , USA .
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- National Center for Natural Products Research , Department of BioMolecular Sciences , Division of Pharmacognosy , School of Pharmacy , University of Mississippi , Oxford , Mississippi 38655 , USA
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- National Center for Natural Products Research , Department of BioMolecular Sciences , Division of Pharmacognosy , School of Pharmacy , University of Mississippi , Oxford , Mississippi 38655 , USA
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- National Center for Natural Products Research , Department of BioMolecular Sciences , Division of Pharmacognosy , School of Pharmacy , University of Mississippi , Oxford , Mississippi 38655 , USA
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- National Center for Natural Products Research , Department of BioMolecular Sciences , Division of Pharmacognosy , School of Pharmacy , University of Mississippi , Oxford , Mississippi 38655 , USA
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- National Center for Natural Products Research , Department of BioMolecular Sciences , Division of Pharmacognosy , School of Pharmacy , University of Mississippi , Oxford , Mississippi 38655 , USA
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- Chemical Biology Laboratory , Center for Cancer Research , National Cancer Institute , Frederick , Maryland 21702-1201 , USA
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- Molecular Targets Laboratory , Center for Cancer Research , National Cancer Institute , Frederick , Maryland 21702-1201 , USA .
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- Structure Elucidation Group, Process and Analytical Research and Development , Merck & Co. Inc. , Rahway , New Jersey 07065 , USA .
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- Molecular Targets Laboratory , Center for Cancer Research , National Cancer Institute , Frederick , Maryland 21702-1201 , USA .
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Lei X, Qiu F, Sun H, Bai L, Wang WX, Xiang W, Xiao H. A Self-Assembled Oligopeptide as a Versatile NMR Alignment Medium for the Measurement of Residual Dipolar Couplings in Methanol. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2017; 56:12857-12861. [PMID: 28834640 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201705123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2017] [Revised: 08/11/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Residual dipolar coupling (RDC) is a powerful structural parameter for the determination of the constitution, conformation, and configuration of organic molecules. Herein, we report the first liquid crystal-based orienting medium that is compatible with MeOH, thus enabling RDC acquisitions of a wide range of intermediate to polar organic molecules. The liquid crystals were produced from self-assembled oligopeptide nanotubes (AAKLVFF), which are stable at very low concentrations. The presented alignment medium is highly homogeneous, and the size of RDCs can be scaled with the concentration of the peptide. To assess the accuracy of the RDC measurement by employing this new medium, seven bioactive natural products from different classes were chosen and analyzed. The straightforward preparation of the anisotropic alignment sample will offer a versatile and robust protocol for the routine RDC measurement of natural products.
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- Xinxiang Lei
- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, South Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, 430074, P. R. China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, South Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, 430074, P. R. China
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- Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), Robert-Roessle-Strasse 10, 13125, Berlin, Germany
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, South Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, 430074, P. R. China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, South Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, 430074, P. R. China
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- School of Life Science, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, 150030, China
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- College of Chemistry & Materials Engineering, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, 325035, P. R. China
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Lei X, Qiu F, Sun H, Bai L, Wang WX, Xiang W, Xiao H. A Self-Assembled Oligopeptide as a Versatile NMR Alignment Medium for the Measurement of Residual Dipolar Couplings in Methanol. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201705123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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- Xinxiang Lei
- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences; South Central University for Nationalities; Wuhan 430074 P. R. China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences; South Central University for Nationalities; Wuhan 430074 P. R. China
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- Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP); Robert-Roessle-Strasse 10 13125 Berlin Germany
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences; South Central University for Nationalities; Wuhan 430074 P. R. China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences; South Central University for Nationalities; Wuhan 430074 P. R. China
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- School of Life Science; Northeast Agricultural University; Harbin Heilongjiang Province 150030 China
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- College of Chemistry & Materials Engineering; Wenzhou University; Wenzhou 325035 P. R. China
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Marcó N, Nolis P, Gil RR, Parella T. 2J HH-resolved HSQC: Exclusive determination of geminal proton-proton coupling constants. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2017; 282:18-26. [PMID: 28686954 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2017.06.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2017] [Revised: 06/21/2017] [Accepted: 06/22/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The measurement of two-bond proton-proton coupling constants (2JHH) in prochiral CH2 groups from the F2 dimension of 2D spectra is not easy due to the usual presence of complex multiplet J patterns, line broadening effects and strong coupling artifacts. These drawbacks are particularly pronounced and frequent in AB spin systems, as those normally exhibited by the pair of diastereotopic CH2 protons. Here, a novel 2JHH-resolved HSQC experiment for the exclusive and accurate determination of the magnitude of 2JHH from the doublet displayed along the highly-resolved indirect F1 dimension is described. A pragmatic 2JHH NMR profile affords a fast overview of the full range of existing 2JHH values. In addition, a 2JHH/δ(13C)-scaled version proves to be an efficient solution when severe signal overlapping complicate a rigorous analysis. The performance of the method is compared with other current techniques and illustrated by the determination of challenging residual dipolar 2DHH coupling constants of small molecules dissolved in weakly orienting media.
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- Núria Marcó
- Servei de Ressonància Magnètica Nuclear, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E-08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Servei de Ressonància Magnètica Nuclear, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E-08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Servei de Ressonància Magnètica Nuclear, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E-08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
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Reller M, Wesp S, Koos MRM, Reggelin M, Luy B. Biphasic Liquid Crystal and the Simultaneous Measurement of Isotropic and Anisotropic Parameters by Spatially Resolved NMR Spectroscopy. Chemistry 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201702126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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- Malin Reller
- Institut für Organische Chemie and Institut für Biologische Grenzflächen 4 - Magnetische Resonanz; Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT); Fritz-Haber-Weg 6 76131 Karlsruhe Germany
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- Organische Chemie; Technische Universität Darmstadt; Alarich-Weiss Str. 4 64287 Darmstadt Germany
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- Institut für Organische Chemie and Institut für Biologische Grenzflächen 4 - Magnetische Resonanz; Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT); Fritz-Haber-Weg 6 76131 Karlsruhe Germany
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- Organische Chemie; Technische Universität Darmstadt; Alarich-Weiss Str. 4 64287 Darmstadt Germany
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- Institut für Organische Chemie and Institut für Biologische Grenzflächen 4 - Magnetische Resonanz; Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT); Fritz-Haber-Weg 6 76131 Karlsruhe Germany
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Marcó N, Gil RR, Parella T. Structural discrimination from in situ measurement of 1 D CH and 2 D HH residual dipolar coupling constants. MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN CHEMISTRY : MRC 2017; 55:540-545. [PMID: 28043096 DOI: 10.1002/mrc.4575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2016] [Revised: 12/23/2016] [Accepted: 12/29/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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A fast residual dipolar coupling constant-assisted strategy involving the simultaneous determination of scalar and total coupling constants from a single 1 JCH /2 JHH -resolved NMR spectrum is reported. It is shown that the concerted use of the directly measured 1 DCH (for all CHn multiplicities) and 2 DHH residual dipolar couplings allows an on-the-fly assignment of diastereotopic CH2 protons, as well as of an efficient discrimination between diastereoisomeric structures of strychnine which contains six stereocenters. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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- Núria Marcó
- Servei de Ressonància Magnètica Nuclear and Departament de Química, Facultat de Ciències, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Catalonia, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, 4400 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
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- Servei de Ressonància Magnètica Nuclear and Departament de Química, Facultat de Ciències, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Catalonia, Spain
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Li GW, Cao JM, Zong W, Hu L, Hu ML, Lei X, Sun H, Tan RX. Helical Polyisocyanopeptides as Lyotropic Liquid Crystals for Measuring Residual Dipolar Couplings. Chemistry 2017; 23:7653-7656. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201700539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2017] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Gao-Wei Li
- Institute of Functional Biomolecules; State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology; Nanjing University; Nanjing 210093 P. R. China
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- Institute of Functional Biomolecules; State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology; Nanjing University; Nanjing 210093 P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry & Materials Engineering; Wenzhou University; Wenzhou 325035 P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry & Materials Engineering; Wenzhou University; Wenzhou 325035 P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry & Materials Engineering; Wenzhou University; Wenzhou 325035 P. R. China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences; South Central University for Nationalities; Wuhan 430074 P. R. China
- College of Chemistry & Materials Engineering; Wenzhou University; Wenzhou 325035 P. R. China
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- Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP); Robert-Roessle-Strasse 10 13125 Berlin Germany
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- Institute of Functional Biomolecules; State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology; Nanjing University; Nanjing 210093 P. R. China
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França JAA, Navarro-Vázquez A, Lei X, Sun H, Griesinger C, Hallwass F. Complete NMR assignment and conformational analysis of 17-α-ethinylestradiol by using RDCs obtained in grafted graphene oxide. MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN CHEMISTRY : MRC 2017; 55:297-303. [PMID: 27637176 DOI: 10.1002/mrc.4526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2016] [Revised: 09/08/2016] [Accepted: 09/13/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The 1 H and 13 C NMR spectra of 17-α-ethinylestradiol (EE2), a well-known contraceptive, including diastereotopic methylene groups, were fully assigned with the help of residual dipolar couplings (RDC) measured in the recently developed grafted graphene oxide orienting medium. RDC analysis, which included all 1 DCH couplings and the long-range 2 DCH1 H-C≡13 C coupling, also pointed to the presence of a minor conformation arising from pseudo-rotation of the steroid B ring. Saturation-transfer difference (STD) measurements revealed that the most likely interaction between EE2 and orienting medium occurred on the C and D ring. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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- José A A França
- Instituto Federal de Alagoas, Campus Piranhas, Avenida Sergipe, s/n° Xingó, 57460-000, Piranhas, AL, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química Fundamental, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Avenida Professor Moraes Rego, 1235, Cidade Universitária, 50670-901, Recife, PE, Brazil
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, South Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, 430074, PR China
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- Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), Robert-Robert-Rössle-StraΒe 10, 13125, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of NMR-based Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Fassberg 11, 37077, Göttingen, Germany
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- Departamento de Química Fundamental, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Avenida Professor Moraes Rego, 1235, Cidade Universitária, 50670-901, Recife, PE, Brazil
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Marcó N, Souza AA, Nolis P, Gil RR, Parella T. Perfect 1J CH-resolved HSQC: Efficient measurement of one-bond proton-carbon coupling constants along the indirect dimension. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2017; 276:37-42. [PMID: 28092787 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2017.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2016] [Revised: 12/30/2016] [Accepted: 01/01/2017] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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A versatile 1JCH-resolved HSQC pulse scheme for the speedy, accurate and automated determination of one-bond proton-carbon coupling constants is reported. The implementation of a perfectBIRD element allows a straightforward measurement from the clean doublets obtained along the highly resolved F1 dimension, even for each individual 1JCHa and 1JCHb in diastereotopic HaCHb methylene groups. Real-time homodecoupling during acquisition and other alternatives to minimize accidental signal overlapping in overcrowded spectra are also discussed.
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- N Marcó
- Servei de Ressonància Magnètica Nuclear, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Catalonia, Spain
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- Servei de Ressonància Magnètica Nuclear, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Catalonia, Spain; Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal do Piauí, 64049-550 Teresina, PI, Brazil
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- Servei de Ressonància Magnètica Nuclear, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Catalonia, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Servei de Ressonància Magnètica Nuclear, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Catalonia, Spain.
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Schmidts V. Perspectives in the application of residual dipolar couplings in the structure elucidation of weakly aligned small molecules. MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN CHEMISTRY : MRC 2017; 55:54-60. [PMID: 27743456 DOI: 10.1002/mrc.4543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2016] [Revised: 10/10/2016] [Accepted: 10/13/2016] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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This perspective article aims to review the general methodology in the application of residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) in the structure elucidation of small molecules and give the author's view on challenges for future applications. Recent improvements in the availability of alignment media, new pulse sequences for the measurement of couplings and improvements in the analysis software have garnered widespread interest in the technique. However, further generalization is needed in order to make RDC analysis into a truly "routine" method. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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- Volker Schmidts
- Clemens-Schöpf-Institut für Organische Chemie und Biochemie, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
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Castañar L, Garcia M, Hellemann E, Nolis P, Gil RR, Parella T. One-Shot Determination of Residual Dipolar Couplings: Application to the Structural Discrimination of Small Molecules Containing Multiple Stereocenters. J Org Chem 2016; 81:11126-11131. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.6b02103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Laura Castañar
- Servei
de Ressonància Magnètica Nuclear, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Catalonia, Spain
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- Department
of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Servei
de Ressonància Magnètica Nuclear, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Catalonia, Spain
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- Department
of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Servei
de Ressonància Magnètica Nuclear, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Catalonia, Spain
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Hellemann E, Teles RR, Hallwass F, Barros W, Navarro-Vázquez A, Gil RR. Mechanical Behavior of Polymer Gels for RDCs and RCSAs Collection: NMR Imaging Study of Buckling Phenomena. Chemistry 2016; 22:16632-16635. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201603333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2016] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Erich Hellemann
- Department of Chemistry; Carnegie Mellon University; 4400 Fifth Ave. Pittsburgh PA 15213 USA
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- Departamento de Química Fundamental; Universidade Federal de Pernambuco; Cidade Universitária CEP,50.740-540 Recife, PE Brazil
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- Departamento de Química Fundamental; Universidade Federal de Pernambuco; Cidade Universitária CEP,50.740-540 Recife, PE Brazil
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- Departamento de Física; Universidade Federal de Pernambuco; Cidade Universitária CEP,50.740-540 Recife, PE Brazil
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- Departamento de Química Fundamental; Universidade Federal de Pernambuco; Cidade Universitária CEP,50.740-540 Recife, PE Brazil
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- Department of Chemistry; Carnegie Mellon University; 4400 Fifth Ave. Pittsburgh PA 15213 USA
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Zong W, Li GW, Cao JM, Lei X, Hu ML, Sun H, Griesinger C, Tan RX. An Alignment Medium for Measuring Residual Dipolar Couplings in Pure DMSO: Liquid Crystals from Graphene Oxide Grafted with Polymer Brushes. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201511435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Wen Zong
- College of Chemistry & Materials Engineering; Wenzhou University; Wenzhou 325035 P.R. China
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- Institute of Functional Biomolecules; State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology; Nanjing University; Nanjing 210093 P.R. China
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- Institute of Functional Biomolecules; State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology; Nanjing University; Nanjing 210093 P.R. China
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- College of Chemistry & Materials Engineering; Wenzhou University; Wenzhou 325035 P.R. China
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- College of Chemistry & Materials Engineering; Wenzhou University; Wenzhou 325035 P.R. China
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- Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP); Robert-Roessle-Strasse 10 13125 Berlin Germany
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- Department of NMR-based Structural Biology; Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry; 37077 Göttingen Germany
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- Institute of Functional Biomolecules; State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology; Nanjing University; Nanjing 210093 P.R. China
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Zong W, Li GW, Cao JM, Lei X, Hu ML, Sun H, Griesinger C, Tan RX. An Alignment Medium for Measuring Residual Dipolar Couplings in Pure DMSO: Liquid Crystals from Graphene Oxide Grafted with Polymer Brushes. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2016; 55:3690-3. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201511435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2015] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Wen Zong
- College of Chemistry & Materials Engineering; Wenzhou University; Wenzhou 325035 P.R. China
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- Institute of Functional Biomolecules; State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology; Nanjing University; Nanjing 210093 P.R. China
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- Institute of Functional Biomolecules; State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology; Nanjing University; Nanjing 210093 P.R. China
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- College of Chemistry & Materials Engineering; Wenzhou University; Wenzhou 325035 P.R. China
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- College of Chemistry & Materials Engineering; Wenzhou University; Wenzhou 325035 P.R. China
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- Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP); Robert-Roessle-Strasse 10 13125 Berlin Germany
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- Department of NMR-based Structural Biology; Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry; 37077 Göttingen Germany
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- Institute of Functional Biomolecules; State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology; Nanjing University; Nanjing 210093 P.R. China
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