Chemoenzymatic synthesis of macrocyclic peptides and polyketides via thioesterase-catalyzed macrocyclization

• Senze Qiao,
• Zhongyu Cheng and
• Fuzhuo Li

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 721–733, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.66

• understanding of the acidic lipopeptide structure–activity relationship (Scheme 4b). Surugamide B The cyclic octapeptides surugamides were isolated from several Streptomyces sp. and shown to be cathepsin B inhibitors [56][57][58]. According to a biosynthetic viewpoint, the corresponding modules consist of four

New variochelins from soil-isolated Variovorax sp. H002

• Jabal Rahmat Haedar,
• Aya Yoshimura and
• Toshiyuki Wakimoto

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 692–700, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.63

• , suggesting that Variovorax sp. H002 modulates the local rhizosphere microbiome by utilizing variochelins (Table 2). Conclusion In this study, we reported the isolation of new variochelin congeners 3–5, as well as the known variochelins 1 and 2, from soil-isolated Variovorax sp. H002. The lipopeptide

Intermediates and shunt products of massiliachelin biosynthesis in Massilia sp. NR 4-1

• Till Steinmetz,
• Blaise Kimbadi Lombe and
• Markus Nett

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 909–917, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.69

• Burkholderia gladioli, which possesses an unprecedented citrate-derived fatty acid moiety [11]. Furthermore, lipopeptide siderophores with photocleavable moieties, like taiwachelin, were reported from bacteria of the genera Cupriavidus and Variovorax [12][13][14]. The β-proteobacterial genus Massilia was

• ). Although the architecture of the corresponding locus suggested an involvement in the production of a lipopeptide siderophore, the gene cluster could not be unequivocally associated with a known compound. The assumption that Massilia sp. NR 4-1 synthesizes iron-chelating molecules in addition to

• -chelating molecules, which are structurally and likely also biosynthetically linked to massiliachelin. However, these compounds are not related to the predicted lipopeptide siderophore. Herein, we describe their isolation, characterization and antibacterial activities, and we discuss their biosynthetic

Nostochopcerol, a new antibacterial monoacylglycerol from the edible cyanobacterium Nostochopsis lobatus

• Naoya Oku,
• Saki Hayashi,
• Yuji Yamaguchi,
• Hiroyuki Takenaka and
• Yasuhiro Igarashi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 133–138, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.13

• limited number of attempts include an antifungal lipopeptide nostofungicidine [4] and an antioxidant nostocionone [5] from Nostoc commune, an unusual antibacterial n−1 fatty acid from N. verrucosum [2], and the sacrolides, antimicrobial oxylipin macrolactones from Aphanothece sacrum [6][7]. Nostochopsis

Digyalipopeptide A, an antiparasitic cyclic peptide from the Ghanaian Bacillus sp. strain DE2B

• Adwoa P. Nartey,
• Aboagye K. Dofuor,
• Kofi B. A. Owusu,
• Anil S. Camas,
• Hai Deng,
• Marcel Jaspars and
• Kwaku Kyeremeh

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1763–1771, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.185

• , the Ghanaian novel Bacillus sp. strain DE2B was isolated from rhizosphere soils collected from the Digya National Park in Ghana. Chromatographic purifications of the fermented culture extract of the strain DE2B, led to the isolation of a cyclic lipopeptide, digyalipopeptide A (1). Using 1D and 2D NMR

• (Figures S1 and S2 in Supporting Information File 1), isolated from the Digya National Park in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana. We found this strain to produce a cyclic lipopeptide which we have named digyalipopeptide A (1). Results and Discussion Structure elucidation Compound 1 (digyalipopeptide A) was

• examine similar lipopeptide structures previously characterized in the literature that possessed both the fatty acid chain terminating as an isopropyl and adjacent to Glu residue connected by an amide bond. This detailed examination revealed that in the structure of these cyclic lipopeptides, the

First total synthesis of hoshinoamide A

• Haipin Zhou,
• Zihan Rui,
• Yiming Yang,
• Shengtao Xu,
• Yutian Shao and
• Long Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2924–2931, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.201

• artemisinin derivatives [7]. The emergence of drug resistance makes the efficacy of these drugs decline year by year, forcing scientists to constantly search for new antimalarial drugs [8][9][10]. In recent years, Iwasaki and co-workers have reported three novel linear lipopeptide natural products

Synthesis and physicochemical evaluation of fluorinated lipopeptide precursors of ligands for microbubble targeting

• Masayori Hagimori,
• Estefanía E. Mendoza-Ortega and
• Marie Pierre Krafft

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 511–518, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.45

• hydrophobic chains (CnF2n+1, n = 6, 7, 8, 1–3) grafted through a lysine moiety on a hydrophilic chain composed of a lysine–serine–serine (KSS) sequence followed by 5 SG sequences. These F-lipopeptides are precursors of targeting lipopeptide conjugates. A hydrocarbon counterpart with a C10H21 chain (4) was

• provokes delipidation of the interfacial film. The incorporation of the F-lipopeptides 1–3 in microbubbles with a shell of DPPC and dipalmitoylphosphatidylethanolamine-PEG2000 decreased their mean diameter and increased their stability, the best results being obtained for the C8F17-bearing lipopeptide 3

• . By contrast, the hydrocarbon lipopeptide led to microbubbles with a larger mean diameter and a significantly lower stability. Keywords: adsorption at fluid interfaces; drug delivery; microbubble targeting; molecular imaging; monolayer; perfluoroalkylated lipopeptide; solid-phase peptide synthesis

Secondary metabolites of Bacillus subtilis impact the assembly of soil-derived semisynthetic bacterial communities

• Heiko T. Kiesewalter,
• Carlos N. Lozano-Andrade,
• Mikael L. Strube and
• Ákos T. Kovács

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2983–2998, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.248

• directly affected by the B. subtilis lipopeptide surfactin in a monitored growth experiment. We studied the bacterial community compositions by sequencing the two variable regions V3 and V4 of the 16S rRNA gene. Noteworthy, some limitations of this technique are well known. In 2014, Poretsky et al

Chemical structure of cichorinotoxin, a cyclic lipodepsipeptide that is produced by Pseudomonas cichorii and causes varnish spots on lettuce

• Hidekazu Komatsu,
• Takashi Shirakawa,
• Takeo Uchiyama and
• Tsutomu Hoshino

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 299–309, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.27

• conserved; this could be the Dab-Ser or the Dab-Dab sequence for example. The conversion of the two hydrophilic amino acids into hydrophobic residues by acylation may have caused the complete loss of activity seen with the tetraacetate (4). Acyclic compound A (a linear lipopeptide) produced by alkaline

Synthesis of a tubugi-1-toxin conjugate by a modulizable disulfide linker system with a neuropeptide Y analogue showing selectivity for hY1R-overexpressing tumor cells

• Rainer Kufka,
• Robert Rennert,
• Goran N. Kaluđerović,
• Lutz Weber,
• Wolfgang Richter and
• Ludger A. Wessjohann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 96–105, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.11

• characterization data. Acknowledgements The authors acknowledge support from the State of Saxony-Anhalt (MK-LSA, Projekt “Lipopeptide”). We thank Dr. Jürgen Schmidt and Ms. Anja Ehrlich for HRMS and HPLC support, respectively.

Posttranslational isoprenylation of tryptophan in bacteria

• Masahiro Okada,
• Tomotoshi Sugita and
• Ikuro Abe

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 338–346, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.37

• at a high population cell density in B. subtilis [19][20]. In addition, the ComX pheromone promotes the production of surfactin A, a cyclic lipopeptide with antibiotic and biological surfactant activities (Figure 2A) [21][22]. Furthermore, the ComXnatto pheromone from B. subtilis subsp. natto

Synthesis of antibacterial 1,3-diyne-linked peptoids from an Ugi-4CR/Glaser coupling approach

• Martin C. N. Brauer,
• Ricardo A. W. Neves Filho,
• Bernhard Westermann,
• Ramona Heinke and
• Ludger A. Wessjohann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 25–30, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.4

• and 8a–j. Supporting Information Supporting Information File 22: Complete experimental procedures, characterization and figures of 1H and 13C NMR spectra. Acknowledgements The authors acknowledge support from the State of Saxony-Anhalt (MK-LSA, Projekt “Lipopeptide”). We thank Dr. Jürgen Schmidt and

Convergent synthetic methodology for the construction of self-adjuvanting lipopeptide vaccines using a novel carbohydrate scaffold

• Vincent Fagan,
• Istvan Toth and
• Pavla Simerska

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1741–1748, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.181

• , Australia 10.3762/bjoc.10.181 Abstract A novel convergent synthetic strategy for the construction of multicomponent self-adjuvanting lipopeptide vaccines was developed. A tetraalkyne-functionalized glucose derivative and lipidated Fmoc-lysine were prepared by novel efficient and convenient syntheses. The

• carbohydrate building block was coupled to the self-adjuvanting lipidic moiety (three lipidated Fmoc-lysines) on solid support. Four copies of a group A streptococcal B cell epitope (J8) were then conjugated to the glyco-lipopeptide using a copper-catalyzed cycloaddition reaction. The approach was elaborated

• cleavage conditions and the product, glyco-lipopeptide 9, was used in the final reaction step without purification. Four copies of the N3-J8 epitope were then coupled to glyco-lipopeptide 9 using the copper-catalyzed alkyne–azide cycloaddition reaction (Scheme 4), which was performed according to Urbani et

Multicomponent reactions in nucleoside chemistry

• Mariola Koszytkowska-Stawińska and
• Włodzimierz Buchowicz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1706–1732, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.179

• and 1H NMR analysis). Members of this library were claimed to show promising biological activity, however details were not given. Muraymycins (MRYs) are a class of naturally occurring nucleoside-lipopeptide antibiotics with excellent antibacterial activity. Matsuda and coworkers envisaged that MRYs

The multicomponent approach to N-methyl peptides: total synthesis of antibacterial (–)-viridic acid and analogues

• Ricardo A. W. Neves Filho,
• Sebastian Stark,
• Bernhard Westermann and
• Ludger A. Wessjohann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 2085–2090, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.234

• : Complete experimental procedures and characterization. Supporting Information File 312: Figures of 1H and 13C NMR spectra. Acknowledgements The authors acknowledge support from the state of Saxony-Anhalt (MK-LSA, WZW project “Lipopeptide”). We thank Dr. Jürgen Schmidt and Ms. Annett Werner for HRMS and

A macrolactonization approach to the total synthesis of the antimicrobial cyclic depsipeptide LI-F04a and diastereoisomeric analogues

• James R. Cochrane,
• Dong Hee Yoon,
• Christopher S. P. McErlean and
• Katrina A. Jolliffe

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 1344–1351, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.154

• naturally occurring cyclic peptide may be required for the antifungal activity of this natural product. Keywords: antifungal; cyclic depsipeptide; epimerization; lipopeptide; macrolactonization; peptides; Introduction The LI-F or fusaricidin class of cyclic depsipeptides are produced by a number of

Partial thioamide scan on the lipopeptaibiotic trichogin GA IV. Effects on folding and bioactivity

• Marta De Zotti,
• Barbara Biondi,
• Cristina Peggion,
• Matteo De Poli,
• Haleh Fathi,
• Simona Oancea,
• Claudio Toniolo and
• Fernando Formaggio

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 1161–1171, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.129

• single thioamide replacement was incorporated. Sequence positions near the N-terminus, at the center, and near the C-terminus were investigated. Our results indicate that (i) a thioamide linkage is well tolerated in the overall helical conformation of the [Leu11-OMe] lipopeptide analogue and (ii) this

• analogues maintain the mixed 310-/α-helical structure and the self-association propensity of the native lipopeptide. They also preserve, at least to a great extent, its well-established capability to interact with model phospholipid membranes and to exhibit activity against Gram-positive bacterial strains

Synthetic glycopeptides and glycoproteins with applications in biological research

• Ulrika Westerlind

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 804–818, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.90

• , tripalmitoyl-(S)-glyceryl lipopeptide Pam3-Cys-Ser-(Lys)4 (Pam3CSK4) and carrier proteins, such as tetanus toxoid (T.Tox.), have been successfully applied in MUC1 anti-tumor vaccines [28][29][30]. TH-cell peptides included in two- or three-component vaccines and multivalent glycopeptide dendrimer vaccines have

• with a Pam3Cys TLR2 ligand connected to TN, T and sialyl-T MUC1 glycopeptides was recently described (Scheme 2) [35]. The Pam3CSK4 lipopeptide fragment 13 was prepared by Fmoc solid-phase synthesis, including protected amino-acid side chains after resin cleavage. Subsequently, different TN, T and

• sialyl-T MUC1 glycopeptides (2, 11, 12) were prepared and fully deprotected. Peptide synthesis was followed by fragment condensation employing HATU and HOAt and after additional deprotection steps, resulting in the formation of the lipopeptide vaccine constructs 14–16. Immunization of the vaccines in

Natural product biosyntheses in cyanobacteria: A treasure trove of unique enzymes

• Jan-Christoph Kehr,
• Douglas Gatte Picchi and
• Elke Dittmann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1622–1635, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.191

• contributors to coral reef ecosystems and extremely rich in bioactive secondary metabolites. The first pathway described was the biosynthesis of barbamide (7) (Figure 5), a chlorinated lipopeptide with potent molluscidal activity. The lipopeptide contains a unique trichloroleucyl starter unit that is

• second biosynthetic pathway identified in a strain of the tropical marine cyanobacterium Lyngbya majuscula was assigned to jamaicamides 8. Jamaicamides are neurotoxins and show sodium-channel-blocking activity. The lipopeptide is highly functionalized and contains a bromo-alkynyl, a chlorovinylidene