Synthesis of Phakellistatin 11: A Micronesia (Chuuk) Marine Sponge Cyclooctapeptide

Autor: Michael D. Williams, Stuart R. Taylor, George R. Pettit, John W. Lippert, Rui Tan
Rok vydání: 2001
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Zdroj: Journal of Natural Products. 64:883-891
ISSN: 1520-6025
0163-3864
DOI: 10.1021/np0100441
Popis: The cyclic octapeptide phakellistatin 11 (1), a constituent of The Federated States of Micronesia (Chuuk) marine sponge Phakellia sp., was synthesized using solid-phase techniques. An initial solution-phase synthesis proved to be inadequate owing to spontaneous deprotection of the Fmoc group at the heptapeptide stage. Using the PAL resin attachment and proceeding from Fmoc-Glu-alpha-allyl ester, linear elongation of the octapeptide was performed until the final unit Pro was added. The allyl ester was removed using Pd(0)[P(C(6)H(5))(3)](4). Cleavage of the final Fmoc group and cyclization with PyAOP provided phakellistatin 11 (1) in 17% overall yield. The synthetic specimen of phakellistatin 11 (1) was found to be chemically but not biologically (cancer cell lines) identical to the natural product. The result suggested a conformational difference or more likely the presence of a trace amount of a highly active antineoplastic agent that binds noncovalently to the natural cyclic octapeptide 1.
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