Cyclopeptid-Antibiotika aus Aspergillus-Arten. Struktur der Echinocandine C und D

Cyclopeptide antibiotics from Aspergillus species. Structure of echinocandins C and D The echinocandins B, C and D are antifungal antibiotics produced by a strain of Aspergillus rugulosus. All three metabolites are closely related representing cyclic oligopeptides composed of six amino acids and a linolic acid residue in an amide linkage. The complete structure of echinocandin B ( 1 ) has recently been established by X-ray analysis. Structural assignments to the new minor metabolites C and D have now been made by hydrolytic and oxidative cleavage reactions, formation of N-acyl-α-aminoethers as well as by chemical correlations and extensive NMR. examinations. Echinocandin C ( 2 ), C₅₂H₈₁N₇O₁₅, contains 3-hydroxyhomotyrosine in the place of 3, 4-dihydroxyhomotyrosine present in 1 . Echinocandin D ( 3 ), C₅₂H₈₁N₇O₁₃, differs in two amino acids: 3, 4-dihyroxyhomotyrosine and 4, 5-dihydroxyornithine, unusual units of 1 being replaced by 3-hydroxyhomotyrosine and ornithine.     

Stoffwechselprodukte von Mikroorganismen. 211. Milteilung. Röntgenstrukturanalyse von Elaiophylin

The X-ray crystal structure analysis of the antibiotic elaiophylin ( 1 ), monoclinic, a = 9.927, b = 10.105, c = 31.183 Å, β = 93.20°, space group P2₁, confirms the constitution elucidated by spectroscopic methods and chemical degradation. In the crystal the two chemically equivalent halves of the molecule are related by an approximate twofold rotation axis.     

Time-resolved investigations of singlet oxygen luminescence in water, in phosphatidylcholine, and in aqueous suspensions of phosphatidylcholine or HT29 cells

Singlet oxygen was generated by energy transfer from the photoexcited sensitizer, Photofrin or 9-acetoxy-2,7,12,17-tetrakis-(beta-methoxyethyl)-porphycene (ATMPn), to molecular oxygen. Singlet oxygen was detected time-resolved by its luminescence at 1270 nm in an environment of increasing complexity, water (H2O), pure phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylcholine in water (lipid suspensions), and aqueous suspensions of living cells. In the case of the lipid suspensions, the sensitizers accumulated in the lipids, whereas the localizations in the cells are the membranes containing phosphatidylcholine. By use of Photofrin, the measured luminescence decay times of singlet oxygen were 3.5 +/- 0.5 micros in water, 14 +/- 2 micros in lipid, 9 +/- 2 micros in aqueous suspensions of lipid droplets, and 10 +/- 3 micros in aqueous suspensions of human colonic cancer cells (HT29). The decay time in cell suspensions was much longer than in water and was comparable to the value in suspensions of phosphatidylcholine. That luminescence signal might be attributed to singlet oxygen decaying in the lipid areas of cellular membranes. The measured luminescence decay times of singlet oxygen excited by ATMPn in pure lipid and lipid suspensions were the same within the experimental error as for Photofrin. In contrast to experiments with Photofrin, the decay time in aqueous suspension of HT29 cells was 6 +/- 2 micros when using ATMPn.     

Nouveaux heterocycles tricycliques synthese de derives de l'aza-2 pyrrolo[1,2-a]indole

The synthesis of aza-2 pyrrolo[1,2-a]indole derivatives was achieved by a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction of dimethylacetylenedicarboxylate with a mesoionic ion.     

Triazino-1,2,4-[4,5-a] indoles IV. Etude des triazinoindolethiones

The 1,2-dihy dro-1,2,4-triazino[4,5-a] indole-1-thiones 2 and 3 obtained by sulphurization of the 1,2-dihydro-1,2,4-triazino-[4,5-a] indol-1-ones 1 and 4 with phosphorus pentasulphide are intermediate products in the synthesis of 1,2,4-triazino[4,5-a]-indolc 10 and 4-methyl-1,2,4 omdp;e 19. The thiolactam-thiolactim tautomerism was studied using the ir and nmr spectra and allowed N. and S.substitutions. The methylation with dimethyl sulphate afforded mixtures of N. and S. methyl derivatives which were separated by chromatographic analysis and identified by |21|0H nmr and unequivocal synthesis.