中文名称 | 英文名称 | CAS号 | 化学式 | 分子量 |
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BOC-L-丝氨酸 | (S)-N-(tert-butoxycarbonyl)serine | 3262-72-4 | C8H15NO5 | 205.211 |
BOC-D-丝氨酸 | (R)-N-tert-butoxycarbonyl serine | 6368-20-3 | C8H15NO5 | 205.211 |
—— | tert-butyl (2S)-1-hydroxy-3-oxobutan-2-ylcarbamate | 1013028-29-9 | C9H17NO4 | 203.238 |
中文名称 | 英文名称 | CAS号 | 化学式 | 分子量 |
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丁氧羰基-D-二氨基二酸羟基 | (R)-2-tert-butoxycarbonyl-3-aminopropionic acid | 76387-70-7 | C8H16N2O4 | 204.226 |
3-叠氮基-N-[叔丁氧羰基]-D-丙氨酸 | 2-(R)-(tert-butoxycarbonyl)-amino-3-azidopropionic acid | 225780-77-8 | C8H14N4O4 | 230.224 |
—— | N-tert-butoxycarbonyl-D-2-aminooctanoic acid | 92211-96-6 | C13H25NO4 | 259.346 |
Natural products provide the inspiration for most drugs, and marine natural products, in particular, are emerging as promising new therapeutics with new targets or mechanisms of action. Pharmacological targeting of tubulin dynamics has been a validated strategy for cancer therapy for decades, yielding structurally diverse natural products and derivatives, including paclitaxel, vincristine, maytansine, and eribulin, targeting six known and different binding sites. We discovered a chemical scaffold from marine cyanobacteria that targets a seventh tubulin binding site. We report the entire spectrum of the discovered chemical and biological novelties, including the isolation, structure determination, and chemical synthesis of the natural product, and the investigation of its mechanism of action, target identification, and binding mode elucidation at the atomic level.
天然产物为大多数药物提供灵感,尤其是海洋天然产物正逐渐成为具有新靶点或作用机制的有前途的新疗法。数十年来,药理学上针对微管动力学的靶向治疗一直是癌症治疗的验证策略,产生了结构多样的天然产物和衍生物,包括紫杉醇、长春碱、马丹霉素和依立必利,靶向六个已知且不同的结合位点。我们发现了一种来自海洋蓝藻的化学骨架,靶向第七个微管结合位点。我们报告了所发现的化学和生物新颖性的整个范围,包括天然产物的分离、结构确定和化学合成,以及对其作用机制、靶点识别和在原子水平上结合方式的阐明的调查。
2,2-Dimethyl-3-(2′-hydroxypropyl)-5-carboxy-Δ3 -1,4-thiazine (1) is a designed antibacterial agent. Based on an analysis of how penicillin complexes to and reacts with a model of a penicillin-binding protein, 1 contains a functional group (C=N) that can react with a serine hydroxyl group of the receptor according to the putative reaction Enz-OH + C = N → Enz-O-C-NH. Compound 1 also contains additional substituents that are designed to position the O-H and C=N groups relative to one another in the enzyme–substrate complex in a geometry that attempts to reproduce the optimum geometry of approach of two such reactants. A most important assumption is that this optimum geometry can be computed ab initio. In a first preparation of 1, (±)-5-methyl-4-hexene-2-ol (2) was converted to the lithium salt of (±)-2-mercapto-2-methyl-5-tert-butyldimethylsiloxy-3- hexanone (7), which was condensed with the N-tert-butoxycarbonyl-D- and L-serine-β-lactones (3). The synthesis was completed by deprotection with formic acid and cyclization in water. The R and S enantiomers of 2 have now been obtained, and the absolute configuration of the alcohol established, by reaction of the R- and S-propylene oxides with an organometallic reagent prepared from β,β-dimethylvinyl bromide. The R alcohol has also been secured by lipase-catalyzed transesterification with trifluoroethyl butyrate, and chemical hydrolysis of the trifluoroethyl ester. The R and S enantiomers of 2 were converted to the R and S enantiomers of 7, and these were condensed with the R and S enantiomers of 3 to yield each of the stereoisomers of the chemically unstable 1 in ca. 95% optically pure form. Antibacterial activity resides in the 5S,8R and 5S,8S isomers. These findings are shown to be consistent with the theoretical model. It is hoped that the stability of the lead structure 1 can be improved, to allow binding experiments with penicillin recognizing enzymes to proceed.
β-Lactam compounds act on penicillin-recognizing enzymes via acylation of the hydroxyl group of an active site serine. When the resulting acyl enzyme is kinetically stable, as in the case of a penicillin-binding protein (PBP), the biosynthesis of a bacterial cell wall is inhibited, and death of the organism results. The de novo design of an antibacterial agent targeted to a PBP might be possible if the three-dimensional structural requirements of the equilibrium (i.e, fit) and catalytic (i.e. reactivity) steps of the aforementioned enzymatic process could be determined. For a model of the active site of a PBP from Streptomyces R61, the use of molecular mechanics calculations to treat "fit," and ab initio molecular orbital calculations to treat "reactivity," leads to the idea that the carboxyl group (G1) and the amide N-H (G2) of the antibiotic are hydrogen bonded to a lysine amino group and a valine carbonyl group in the enzyme–substrate complex. These two hydrogen bonds place the serine hydroxyl group on the convex face of the antibiotic, in position for attack on the β-lactam ring by a neutral reaction, catalyzed by water, that involves a direct proton transfer to the β-lactam nitrogen. Molecular orbital calculations of structure–reactivity relations associated with this mechanism suggest that C=N is bioisosteric to the β-lactam N-C(=O), comparable to a β-lactam in its reactivity with an alcohol, and that the product RO(C-N)H is formed essentially irreversibly (−ΔE > 10 kcal/mol). Accordingly, structures containing a G1 and a G2 separated by a C=N, and positioned in different ways with respect to this functional group, have been synthesized computationally and examined for their ability to fit to the PBP model. This strategy identified a 2H-5,6-dihydro-1,4-thiazine substituted by hydroxyl and carboxyl groups as a target for chemical synthesis. However, exploratory experiments suggested that the C=N of this compound equilibrates with endocyclic and exocyclic enamine tautomers. This required that the C2 position be substituted, and that the hydroxyl group not be attached to the carbon atom adjacent to the C=N. These conditions are met in a 2,2-dimethyl-3-(2-hydroxypropyl)-1,4-thiazine, which also exhibits the necessary fit to the PBP model. Two epimers of this compound have been synthesized, from D- and L-serine. The compound derived from L-serine is not active. The compound derived from D-serine exhibits antibacterial activity, but is unstable, and binding studies with PBP's have not been performed. It is hoped that these studies can be carried out if modification of the lead structure leads to compounds with improved chemical stability.