The new cyclic peptide antibiotic, urukthapelstatin A, has been isolated from a culture of Thermoactinomycetaceae bacterium Mechercharimyces asporophorigenens YM11-542. The structure of urukthapelstatin A was elucidated by NMR, MS, Marfey analysis, chiral HPLC and X-ray crystal analyses.
Keywords urukthapelstatin A, cyclic peptide, cytotoxic, Thermoactinomyces
IntroductionUrukthapelstatin A (1) is a thiopeptide antibiotic which contains three oxazoles and two thiazoles in its cyclic structure and is structurally related to mechercharstatin (former name, mechercharmycin) [1,2] and YM-216391 [3, 4]. The fermentation, isolation and biological properties of 1 (Fig. 1) have been reported in the preceding paper [5]. This report describes the physico-chemical properties and structural determination of 1, which was produced by Mechercharimyces asporophorigenens YM11-542.
Results
Physico-chemical PropertiesThe physico-chemical properties of 1 are summarized in The relationship of the spin networks was established from 1 H-13 C long-range correlations in the HMBC spectrum and yielded three partial structures, which were assigned to a bithiazole-benzyloxazole moiety (C 15 H 7 N 3 OS 2 , partial structure A), one oxazole (C 3 HNO, partial structure B), and an alanine and isoleucinecontaining part (C 16 H 22 N 4 O 4 , partial structure C, Fig. 2). The HMBC correlations when n J CH was set to 2 Hz, were observed from H-34 (d H 8.59) to C-2 (d C 135.50), and from H-6 (d H 8.88) to C-4 (d C 155.11). Consequently, C-1 of partial structure A was connected to C-2 of partial structure B, and C-4 of partial structure B was connected to C-6 of partial structure C. In addition, the ROESY correlation of H-10 (d H 1.82) and N4-H (d H 9.49) revealed that a vinylmethyl part in partial structure C had a Z configuration (Fig. 2).Although there is no signal between partial structure A and C in HMBC spectrum, the C-20/C-21 connection can be brought about by the comparison of the molecular formula C 34 H 30 N 8 O 6 S 2 with a tolal of each partial structures (A; C 15 H 7 N 3 OS 2 , B; C 3 HNO, C; C 16 H 22 N 4 O 4 ), enabling the planer structure of 1 to be obtained.The absolute configuration of the alanine and isoleucine residues was determined by a Marfey analysis [6] and chiral HPLC analysis of the acid hydrolysate of 1. The Marfey analysis clarified the existence of L-Ala in the acid hydrolysate of 1, but D-Ile and D-allo-Ile were indistinguishable from the reversed-phase HPLC analysis of their FDAA derivatives. The chiral HPLC analysis successfully defined the absolute configuration of isoleucine as D-allo-Ile. Finally, the absolute stereochemistry of 1 was determined as shown in Fig. 1.An X-ray crystallographic analysis was also performed to confirm the full structure of 1. An adequate crystal was obtained by crystallization from CH 2 Cl 2 /MeOH (1 : 1). The crystal data and measurement conditions are summarized in the experimental section, and the ORTEP drawing shown in Fig. 3. The absolute configuration of 1 was ascertained ...