Protoaculeine B, a putative N-terminal residue for the novel peptide toxin aculeines

Org Lett. 2014 Jun 6;16(11):3090-3. doi: 10.1021/ol5011888. Epub 2014 May 20.

Abstract

A new polyamine-modified indole derivative protoaculeine B (1) was isolated from Okinawan marine sponge Axinyssa aculeata. The structure of 1 was assigned on the basis of spectral data along with chemical transformations. Because the structure of 1 greatly inferred the N-terminal amino acid for highly modified peptide toxin aculeines, the probable structure for aculeine B was proposed on the basis of high-resolution mass spectral analysis.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Indoles / chemistry*
  • Indoles / isolation & purification
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  • Molecular Structure
  • Peptides / chemistry*
  • Peptides / isolation & purification
  • Polyamines / chemistry*
  • Polyamines / isolation & purification
  • Porifera / chemistry*

Substances

  • Indoles
  • Peptides
  • Polyamines
  • protoaculeine B