摘要:
The aromatic amino acid constituent of Echinocandin B: 3,4‐Dihydroxyhomotyrosine.The antifungal antibiotic echinocandin B gave upon treatment of its tetrahydroderivative with anhydrous trifluoroacetic acid and subsequent methanolysis the tripeptide threonyl‐(4‐hydroxyprolyl)‐(4‐oxohomotyrosine) methyl ester (8), which could be hydrolysed to 4‐oxohomotyrosine (11). These facts together with the earlier described hydrolysis of the antibiotic to 1‐amino‐3‐p‐hydroxyphenyl‐2‐propanone (6) and the reductive hydrolysis to homotyrosine suggested the presence of 3,4‐dihydroxyhomotyrosine (14) as a constituent amino acid of echinocandin B. This was confirmed by a degradation of the intact tetrahydro‐polypeptide with perjodate yielding p‐hydroxybenzaldehyde and by the isolation of free 3,4‐dihydroxyhomotyrosine upon mild acidic treatment of the tetrahydro‐polypeptide.