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JOURNAL OF ANTIBIOTICS
Volume 59, Issue 5, Pages 267-280Publisher
JAPAN ANTIBIOTICS RESEARCH ASSOC
DOI: 10.1038/ja.2006.38
Keywords
efrapeptin; MS/MS; papain digestion; circular dichroism
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The structures of neoefrapeptins A to N, peptides with insecticidal activity, were elucidated. They showed a close similarity to efrapeptin. However, all neoefrapeptins contained the very rare amino acid 1-aminocyclopropane-carboxylic acid and some of them also contained (2S,3S)-3-methylproline. The neoefrapeptins are the first case, in which these amino, acids are found as building blocks for linear peptides. They were identified by comparison of the silylated hydrolyzate to reference material by GC/MS (EI-mode). The sequence was elucidated using mass spectrometry (ESI+ mode). Full scan spectra showed two fragments in high yield, even under mild ionization conditions. MS/MS spectra of these two fragments yielded fragment rich spectra from which the sequence of the compounds was determined almost completely. The proteolytic cleavage with the protemase papain yielded products that allowed to prove the rest of the sequence and the identity of the C-terminus to efrapeptin. The proteolytic cleavage products allowed furthermore to determine the position of the isobaric amino acids, pipecolic acid and 3-methylproline in neoefrapeptin F, as well as the location of R-isovaline and S-isovaline. Papain digestion was such established as a tool for structure elucidation of peptides rich in alpha,alpha-dialkylated amino acids. CD spectra suggested a 3(10) helical structure for neoefrapeptins A and F.
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