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Owens SL, Ahmed SR, Lang Harman RM, Stewart LE, Mori S. Natural Products That Contain Higher Homologated Amino Acids. Chembiochem 2024; 25:e202300822. [PMID: 38487927 PMCID: PMC11386549 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.202300822] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2023] [Revised: 03/13/2024] [Indexed: 04/11/2024]
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This review focuses on discussing natural products (NPs) that contain higher homologated amino acids (homoAAs) in the structure as well as the proposed and characterized biosynthesis of these non-proteinogenic amino acids. Homologation of amino acids includes the insertion of a methylene group into its side chain. It is not a very common modification found in NP biosynthesis as approximately 450 homoAA-containing NPs have been isolated from four bacterial phyla (Cyanobacteria, Actinomycetota, Myxococcota, and Pseudomonadota), two fungal phyla (Ascomycota and Basidiomycota), and one animal phylum (Porifera), except for a few examples. Amino acids that are found to be homologated and incorporated in the NP structures include the following ten amino acids: alanine, arginine, cysteine, isoleucine, glutamic acid, leucine, phenylalanine, proline, serine, and tyrosine, where isoleucine, leucine, phenylalanine, and tyrosine share the comparable enzymatic pathway. Other amino acids have their individual homologation pathway (arginine, proline, and glutamic acid for bacteria), likely utilize the primary metabolic pathway (alanine and glutamic acid for fungi), or have not been reported (cysteine and serine). Despite its possible high potential in the drug discovery field, the biosynthesis of homologated amino acids has a large room to explore for future combinatorial biosynthesis and metabolic engineering purpose.
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- Skyler L Owens
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Augusta University, 1120 15th Street, Augusta, GA 30912
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Augusta University, 1120 15th Street, Augusta, GA 30912
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Augusta University, 1120 15th Street, Augusta, GA 30912
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Augusta University, 1120 15th Street, Augusta, GA 30912
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Augusta University, 1120 15th Street, Augusta, GA 30912
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Men P, Geng C, Zhang X, Zhang W, Xie L, Feng D, Du S, Wang M, Huang X, Lu X. Biosynthesis mechanism, genome mining and artificial construction of echinocandin O-sulfonation. Metab Eng 2022; 74:160-167. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2022.10.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2022] [Revised: 09/19/2022] [Accepted: 10/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Untereiner WA, Yue Q, Chen L, Li Y, Bills GF, Štěpánek V, Réblová M. PhialophorasectionCatenulataedisassembled: New genera, species, and combinations and a new family encompassing taxa with cleistothecial ascomata and phialidic asexual states. Mycologia 2019; 111:998-1027. [DOI: 10.1080/00275514.2019.1663106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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- Texas Therapeutics Institute, The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, 1881 East Road, Houston, Texas 77054
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- Texas Therapeutics Institute, The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, 1881 East Road, Houston, Texas 77054
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- Texas Therapeutics Institute, The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, 1881 East Road, Houston, Texas 77054
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- Texas Therapeutics Institute, The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, 1881 East Road, Houston, Texas 77054
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- Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague 142 20, Czech Republic
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- Department of Taxonomy, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
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Zhao P, Xue Y, Li X, Li J, Zhao Z, Quan C, Gao W, Zu X, Bai X, Feng S. Fungi-derived lipopeptide antibiotics developed since 2000. Peptides 2019; 113:52-65. [PMID: 30738838 DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2019.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2018] [Revised: 02/04/2019] [Accepted: 02/05/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Lipopeptide antibiotics have linear or cyclic structures with one or more hydrocarbon tails linked to the N-terminus of a short oligopeptide that may be chemically modified and/or contain unusual amino acid residues in their structures. They possess huge potential as pharmaceutical drugs and biocontrol agents, and ˜30 representative genera of fungi are known to produce them. Some chemically synthesised derivatives have already been developed into commercial products or subjected to clinical trials, including cilofungin, caspofungin, micafungin, anidulafungin, rezafungin, emodepside, fusafungine and destruxins. This review summarizes 200 fungi-derived compounds reported since 2000, including 95 cyclic depsipeptides, 67 peptaibiotics (including 35 peptaibols, eight lipoaminopeptides, and five lipopeptaibols), and 38 non-depsipeptide and non-peptaibiotic lipopeptides. Their sources, structural sequences, antibiotic activities (e.g. antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, antimycobacterial, antimycoplasmal, antimalarial, antileishmanial, insecticidal, antitrypanosomal and nematicidal), structure-activity relationships, mechanisms of action, and specific relevance are discussed. These compounds have attracted considerable interest within the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries.
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- Pengchao Zhao
- College of Medical Technology and Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, 471023, China
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- College of Medical Technology and Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, 471023, China.
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- Life Science College, Yuncheng University, Yuncheng, 044000, China
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- College of Medical Technology and Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, 471023, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, 471023, China
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- Department of Life Science, Dalian Nationalities University, Dalian, 116600, China
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- College of Medical Technology and Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, 471023, China
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- College of Medical Technology and Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, 471023, China
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- College of Medical Technology and Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, 471023, China
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- College of Chemical Engineering and Pharmacy, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, 471023, China
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Wang X, Lin M, Xu D, Lai D, Zhou L. Structural Diversity and Biological Activities of Fungal Cyclic Peptides, Excluding Cyclodipeptides. Molecules 2017; 22:E2069. [PMID: 29186926 PMCID: PMC6150023 DOI: 10.3390/molecules22122069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2017] [Revised: 11/20/2017] [Accepted: 11/23/2017] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Cyclic peptides are cyclic compounds formed mainly by the amide bonds between either proteinogenic or non-proteinogenic amino acids. This review highlights the occurrence, structures and biological activities of fungal cyclic peptides (excluding cyclodipeptides, and peptides containing ester bonds in the core ring) reported until August 2017. About 293 cyclic peptides belonging to the groups of cyclic tri-, tetra-, penta-, hexa-, hepta-, octa-, nona-, deca-, undeca-, dodeca-, tetradeca-, and octadecapeptides as well as cyclic peptides containing ether bonds in the core ring have been isolated from fungi. They were mainly isolated from the genera Aspergillus, Penicillium, Fusarium, Acremonium and Amanita. Some of them were screened to have antimicrobial, antiviral, cytotoxic, phytotoxic, insecticidal, nematicidal, immunosuppressive and enzyme-inhibitory activities to show their potential applications. Some fungal cyclic peptides such as the echinocandins, pneumocandins and cyclosporin A have been developed as pharmaceuticals.
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- Xiaohan Wang
- Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China.
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- Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China.
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- Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China.
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- Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China.
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- Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China.
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Hüttel W. Structural diversity in echinocandin biosynthesis: the impact of oxidation steps and approaches toward an evolutionary explanation. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017; 72:1-20. [PMID: 27705900 DOI: 10.1515/znc-2016-0156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2016] [Accepted: 08/28/2016] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Echinocandins are an important group of cyclic non-ribosomal peptides with strong antifungal activity produced by filamentous fungi from Aspergillaceae and Leotiomycetes. Their structure is characterized by numerous hydroxylated non-proteinogenic amino acids. Biosynthetic clusters discovered in the last years contain up to six oxygenases, all of which are involved in amino acid modifications. Especially, variations in the oxidation pattern induced by these enzymes account for a remarkable structural diversity among the echinocandins. This review provides an overview of the current knowledge of echinocandin biosynthesis with a special focus on diversity-inducing oxidation steps. The emergence of metabolic diversity is further discussed on the basis of a comprehensive overview of the structurally characterized echinocandins, their producer strains and biosynthetic clusters. For the pneumocandins, echinocandins produced by Glarea lozoyensis, the formation of metabolic diversity in a single organism is analyzed. It is compared to two common models for the evolution of secondary metabolism: the 'target-based' approach and the 'diversity-based' model. Whereas the early phase of pneumocandin biosynthesis supports the target-based model, the diversity-inducing late steps and most oxidation reactions best fit the diversity-based approach. Moreover, two types of diversity-inducing steps can be distinguished. Although incomplete hydroxylation is a common phenomenon in echinocandin production and secondary metabolite biosynthesis in general, the incorporation of diverse hydroxyprolines at position 6 is apparently a unique feature of pneumocandin biosynthesis, which stands in stark contrast to the strict selectivity found in echinocandin biosynthesis by Aspergillaceae. The example of echinocandin biosynthesis shows that the existing models for the evolution of secondary metabolism can be well applied to parts of the pathway; however, thus far, there is no comprehensive theory that could explain the entire biosynthesis.
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- Wolfgang Hüttel
- Wolfgang Hüttel, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Freiburg, Albertstrasse 25, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Li XB, Li L, Zhu RX, Li W, Chang WQ, Zhang LL, Wang XN, Zhao ZT, Lou HX. Tetramic Acids and Pyridone Alkaloids from the Endolichenic Fungus Tolypocladium cylindrosporum. JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS 2015; 78:2155-60. [PMID: 26356746 DOI: 10.1021/np501018w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Three new tetramic acid derivatives, tolypocladenols A1, A2, and B (1-3), a new pyridone alkaloid, tolypyridone A (4), and a new coumarin derivative, 3,8-dihydroxy-4-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-6-methylcoumarin (5), together with four known compounds (6-9) were isolated from the endolichenic fungus Tolypocladium cylindrosporum, which inhabits the lichen Lethariella zahlbruckneri. Structures of these compounds were determined by comprehensive analysis of spectroscopic data and single-crystal X-ray diffraction determination. Bioassay of the isolated compounds found that pyridoxatin (7) was cytotoxic to human cancer cells by induction of G0/G1 cell cycle arrest and apoptosis.
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- Xiao-Bin Li
- Department of Natural Product Chemistry, Key Lab of Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shandong University , 44 Wenhua West Road, Jinan 250012, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Natural Product Chemistry, Key Lab of Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shandong University , 44 Wenhua West Road, Jinan 250012, People's Republic of China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University , 27 Shanda Nanlu, Jinan 250100, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Natural Product Chemistry, Key Lab of Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shandong University , 44 Wenhua West Road, Jinan 250012, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Natural Product Chemistry, Key Lab of Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shandong University , 44 Wenhua West Road, Jinan 250012, People's Republic of China
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- College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University , 88 Wenhua East Road, Jinan 250014, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Natural Product Chemistry, Key Lab of Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shandong University , 44 Wenhua West Road, Jinan 250012, People's Republic of China
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- College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University , 88 Wenhua East Road, Jinan 250014, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Natural Product Chemistry, Key Lab of Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shandong University , 44 Wenhua West Road, Jinan 250012, People's Republic of China
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Evolution of Chemical Diversity in Echinocandin Lipopeptide Antifungal Metabolites. EUKARYOTIC CELL 2015; 14:698-718. [PMID: 26024901 DOI: 10.1128/ec.00076-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2015] [Accepted: 05/19/2015] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The echinocandins are a class of antifungal drugs that includes caspofungin, micafungin, and anidulafungin. Gene clusters encoding most of the structural complexity of the echinocandins provided a framework for hypotheses about the evolutionary history and chemical logic of echinocandin biosynthesis. Gene orthologs among echinocandin-producing fungi were identified. Pathway genes, including the nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs), were analyzed phylogenetically to address the hypothesis that these pathways represent descent from a common ancestor. The clusters share cooperative gene contents and linkages among the different strains. Individual pathway genes analyzed in the context of similar genes formed unique echinocandin-exclusive phylogenetic lineages. The echinocandin NRPSs, along with the NRPS from the inp gene cluster in Aspergillus nidulans and its orthologs, comprise a novel lineage among fungal NRPSs. NRPS adenylation domains from different species exhibited a one-to-one correspondence between modules and amino acid specificity that is consistent with models of tandem duplication and subfunctionalization. Pathway gene trees and Ascomycota phylogenies are congruent and consistent with the hypothesis that the echinocandin gene clusters have a common origin. The disjunct Eurotiomycete-Leotiomycete distribution appears to be consistent with a scenario of vertical descent accompanied by incomplete lineage sorting and loss of the clusters from most lineages of the Ascomycota. We present evidence for a single evolutionary origin of the echinocandin family of gene clusters and a progression of structural diversification in two fungal classes that diverged approximately 290 to 390 million years ago. Lineage-specific gene cluster evolution driven by selection of new chemotypes contributed to diversification of the molecular functionalities.
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Bills G, Li Y, Chen L, Yue Q, Niu XM, An Z. New insights into the echinocandins and other fungal non-ribosomal peptides and peptaibiotics. Nat Prod Rep 2014; 31:1348-75. [PMID: 25156669 DOI: 10.1039/c4np00046c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Non-ribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs) are a primary modality for fungal peptidic natural product assembly and are responsible for some of the best known, most useful, and most destructive fungal metabolites. Through genome sequencing and computer-assisted recognition of modular motifs of catalytic domains, one can now confidently identify most NRPS biosynthetic genes of a fungal strain. The biosynthetic gene clusters responsible for two of the most important classes of NRP fungal derived drugs, cyclosporine and the echinocandins, have been recently characterized by genomic sequencing and annotation. Complete biosynthetic gene clusters for the pneumocandins and echinocandins have been mapped at the genetic level and functionally characterized to some extent. Genomic sequencing of representative strains of most of the variants in the echinocandin family, including the wild-type of the three fungal strains employed for industrial-scale production of caspofungin, micafungin and anidulofungin, has enabled characterization of the basic architecture of the echinocandin NRPS pathways. A comparative analysis of how pathway genes cause variations in lipoinitiation, biosynthesis of the non-proteinogenic amino acids, amino acid substitutions, and hydroxylations and sulfonations of the core peptide and contribute to the molecular diversity of the family is presented. We also review new information on the natural functions of NRPs, the differences between fungal and bacterial NRPSs, and functional characterization of selected NRPS gene clusters. Continuing discovery of the new fungal nonribosomal peptides has contributed new structural diversity and potential insights into their biological functions among other natural peptides and peptaibiotics. We therefore provide an update on new peptides, depsipeptides and peptaibols discovered in the Fungi since 2009.
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- Gerald Bills
- Texas Therapeutics Institute, The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Centre at Houston, Houston, Texas 77054, USA.
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Echinocandins: production and applications. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2013; 97:3267-84. [PMID: 23463246 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-013-4761-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2012] [Revised: 02/06/2013] [Accepted: 02/07/2013] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The first echinocandin-type antimycotic (echinocandin B) was discovered in the 1970s. It was followed by the isolation of more than 20 natural echinocandins. These cyclic lipo-hexapeptides are biosynthesized on non-ribosomal peptide synthase complexes by different ascomycota fungi. They have a unique mechanism of action; as non-competitive inhibitors of β-1,3-glucan synthase complex they target the fungal cell wall. Results of the structure-activity relationship experiments let us develop semisynthetic derivatives with improved properties. Three cyclic lipohiexapeptides (caspofungin, micafungin and anidulafungin) are currently approved for use in clinics. As they show good fungicidal (Candida spp.) or fungistatic (Aspergillus spp.) activity against the most important human pathogenic fungi including azole-resistant strains, they are an important addition to the antifungal armamentarium. Some evidence of acquired resistance against echinocandins has been detected among Candida glabrata strains in recent years, which enhanced the importance of data collected on the mechanism of acquired resistance developing against the echinocandins. In this review, we show the structural diversity of natural echinocandins, and we summarize the emerging data on their mode of action, biosynthesis and industrial production. Their clinical significance as well as the mechanism of natural and acquired resistance is also discussed.
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Pham TLH, Zaspel I, Schuemann M, Stephanowitz H, Krause E. Rapid <i>In-Vitro</i> and <i>In-Vitro</i> Detection of <i>Chalara fraxinea</i> by Means of Mass Spectrometric Techniques. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013. [DOI: 10.4236/ajps.2013.42a057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Peláez F, Collado J, Platas G, Overy D, Martín J, Vicente F, González del Val A, Basilio A, De la Cruz M, Tormo J, Fillola A, Arenal F, Villareal M, Rubio V, Baral H, Galán R, Bills G. Phylogeny and intercontinental distribution of the pneumocandin-producing anamorphic fungusGlarea lozoyensis. Mycology 2011. [DOI: 10.1080/21501203.2010.544334] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022] Open
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- F. Peláez
- f Spanish National Cancer Research Center , Melchor Fernández Almagro 3, Madrid, 28029, Spain
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- h Oficina Española de Patentes y Marcas , Departamento de Patentes e Información Tecnológica , Paseo de la Castellana 75, Madrid, E-28071, Spain
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- a Fundación MEDINA, Centro de Excelencia en Investigación de Medicamentos Innovadores en Andalucía, Parque Tecnológico de Ciencias de la Salud , Avda. de Conocimiento 3, E-18100, Armilla, Granada, Spain
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- i University of Prince Edward Island, Duffy Research Center (NRC-INH) , 550 University Avenue, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, C1A 4P3, Canada
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- a Fundación MEDINA, Centro de Excelencia en Investigación de Medicamentos Innovadores en Andalucía, Parque Tecnológico de Ciencias de la Salud , Avda. de Conocimiento 3, E-18100, Armilla, Granada, Spain
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- a Fundación MEDINA, Centro de Excelencia en Investigación de Medicamentos Innovadores en Andalucía, Parque Tecnológico de Ciencias de la Salud , Avda. de Conocimiento 3, E-18100, Armilla, Granada, Spain
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- g Centro de Investigación Básica, Merck, Sharp and Dohme de España , S.A. Josefa Valcárcel 38, Madrid, E-28026, Spain
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- g Centro de Investigación Básica, Merck, Sharp and Dohme de España , S.A. Josefa Valcárcel 38, Madrid, E-28026, Spain
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- a Fundación MEDINA, Centro de Excelencia en Investigación de Medicamentos Innovadores en Andalucía, Parque Tecnológico de Ciencias de la Salud , Avda. de Conocimiento 3, E-18100, Armilla, Granada, Spain
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- a Fundación MEDINA, Centro de Excelencia en Investigación de Medicamentos Innovadores en Andalucía, Parque Tecnológico de Ciencias de la Salud , Avda. de Conocimiento 3, E-18100, Armilla, Granada, Spain
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- g Centro de Investigación Básica, Merck, Sharp and Dohme de España , S.A. Josefa Valcárcel 38, Madrid, E-28026, Spain
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- b PharmaMar S.A.U., Microbiology Department , R and D Drug Discovery , Edificio Parque Científico de Madrid, Santiago Grisolía 2, PTM, Tres Cantos, Madrid, E-28760, Spain
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- c Centro de Ciencias Medioambientales , CSIC, Serrano 115-bis, 28006, Madrid, Spain
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- c Centro de Ciencias Medioambientales , CSIC, Serrano 115-bis, 28006, Madrid, Spain
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- d Blaihofstrasse 42 , Tübingen, D-72074, Germany
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- e Departamento de Biología Vegetal, Facultad de Biología , Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares , Madrid, E-28871, Spain
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- a Fundación MEDINA, Centro de Excelencia en Investigación de Medicamentos Innovadores en Andalucía, Parque Tecnológico de Ciencias de la Salud , Avda. de Conocimiento 3, E-18100, Armilla, Granada, Spain
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Micafungin is the second approved antifungal agent in the echinocandin series and is now used worldwide in chemotherapy for life-threatening fungal infections. It is water-soluble and is semi-synthesized from the acylated cyclic hexapeptide FR901379, a natural product from the fungus Coleophoma empetri F-11899, through enzymatic deacylation of FR901379, followed by chemical reacylation with the optimized N-acyl side chain. The water solubility of micafungin is ascribed to a sulfate moiety in the molecule. This feature differentiates micafungin from other echinocandin members. Micafungin is a potent inhibitor of 1,3-beta-glucan synthase, an enzyme necessary for cell-wall synthesis of several fungal pathogens.
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Hashizume H, Nishimura Y. Cyclic Lipopeptide Antibiotics. BIOACTIVE NATURAL PRODUCTS (PART O) 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/s1572-5995(08)80016-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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