1225277-47-3Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Structure-Based Design of a Eukaryote-Selective Antiprotozoal Fluorinated Aminoglycoside
Kanazawa, Hiroki,Saavedra, Oscar M.,Maianti, Juan Pablo,Young, Simon A.,Izquierdo, Luis,Smith, Terry K.,Hanessian, Stephen,Kondo, Jiro
, p. 1541 - 1548 (2018)
Aminoglycosides (AG) are antibiotics that lower the accuracy of protein synthesis by targeting a highly conserved RNA helix of the ribosomal A-site. The discovery of AGs that selectively target the eukaryotic ribosome, but lack activity in prokaryotes, are promising as antiprotozoals for the treatment of neglected tropical diseases, and as therapies to read-through point-mutation genetic diseases. However, a single nucleobase change A1408G in the eukaryotic A-site leads to negligible affinity for most AGs. Herein we report the synthesis of 6′-fluorosisomicin, the first 6′-fluorinated aminoglycoside, which specifically interacts with the protozoal cytoplasmic rRNA A-site, but not the bacterial A-site, as evidenced by X-ray co-crystal structures. The respective dispositions of 6′-fluorosisomicin within the bacterial and protozoal A-sites reveal that the fluorine atom acts only as a hydrogen-bond acceptor to favorably interact with G1408 of the protozoal A-site. Unlike aminoglycosides containing a 6′-ammonium group, 6′-fluorosisomicin cannot participate in the hydrogen-bonding pattern that characterizes stable pseudo-base-pairs with A1408 of the bacterial A-sites. Based on these structural observations it may be possible to shift the biological activity of aminoglycosides to act preferentially as antiprotozoal agents. These findings expand the repertoire of small molecules targeting the eukaryotic ribosome and demonstrate the usefulness of fluorine as a design element.
Synthesis of Gentamicin Minor Components: Gentamicin B1 and Gentamicin X2
Crich, David,Rajasekaran, Parasuraman
, p. 3850 - 3854 (2020/06/04)
The clinical aminoglycoside antibiotic gentamicin is a mixture of several difficult-to-separate major and minor components. The relative inaccessibility of the minor components in particular complicates efforts to separate antibacterial activity from nephro- and/or ototoxicity and to clarify the origin of the potentially therapeutically important read-through activity. With a view to facilitating such studies, the synthesis of a fully and selectively protected garamine-based acceptor has been developed from readily available sisomicin. Glycosylation of this acceptor with a 6-azido-6,7-dideoxy-d-glycero-d-glucoheptopyranosyl donor affords gentamicin B1 after deprotection, whereas employment of a 2-azido-2-deoxy-d-glucopyranosyl donor under N,N-dimethylformamide-directed glycosylation conditions affords gentamicin X2 after deprotection.
Biomimetic synthesis and structural refinement of the macrocyclic dimer aminoglycoside 66-40C - The remarkably selective self-condensation of a putative aldehyde intermediate in the submerged culture medium producing sisomicin
Hanessian, Stephen,Maianti, Juan Pablo
supporting information; experimental part, p. 2013 - 2015 (2010/07/07)
Aminoglycoside 66-40C, an unprecedented 16-membered bis-azadiene macrocyclic natural product isolated from the Micromonospora producer of the antibiotic sisomicin, was synthesized following a biomimetic strategy which definitively established its origin as arising from a remarkably selective non-enzymatic macro-dimerization. The Royal Society of Chemistry.
Synthesis and comparative antibacterial activity of verdamicin C2 and C2a. A new oxidation of primary allylic azides in dihydro[2H]pyrans
Hanessian, Stephen,Szychowski, Janek,Pablo Maianti
supporting information; experimental part, p. 429 - 432 (2009/09/25)
(Chemical Equation Presented) A synthesis of verdamicin C2 and its congener C2a has been accomplished from sisomicin relying on a novel oxidative transformation of an allylic azide to the corresponding α,β- unsaturated aldehyde, and its stereocontrolled elaboration into the intended 5′ side chain of verdamicin C2 and C2a. In vitro antibacterial testing shows that both C6′ epimers in verdamicin C2 and C2a are equally active against a variety of bacterial strains. Oxidation of allylic primary azides, ethers, and esters of 2-substituted dihydro[2H]pyrans with SeO2 leads directly to the corresponding aldehydes.
