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Wallach I, Bernard D, Nguyen K, Ho G, Morrison A, Stecula A, Rosnik A, O’Sullivan AM, Davtyan A, Samudio B, Thomas B, Worley B, Butler B, Laggner C, Thayer D, Moharreri E, Friedland G, Truong H, van den Bedem H, Ng HL, Stafford K, Sarangapani K, Giesler K, Ngo L, Mysinger M, Ahmed M, Anthis NJ, Henriksen N, Gniewek P, Eckert S, de Oliveira S, Suterwala S, PrasadPrasad SVK, Shek S, Contreras S, Hare S, Palazzo T, O’Brien TE, Van Grack T, Williams T, Chern TR, Kenyon V, Lee AH, Cann AB, Bergman B, Anderson BM, Cox BD, Warrington JM, Sorenson JM, Goldenberg JM, Young MA, DeHaan N, Pemberton RP, Schroedl S, Abramyan TM, Gupta T, Mysore V, Presser AG, Ferrando AA, Andricopulo AD, Ghosh A, Ayachi AG, Mushtaq A, Shaqra AM, Toh AKL, Smrcka AV, Ciccia A, de Oliveira AS, Sverzhinsky A, de Sousa AM, Agoulnik AI, Kushnir A, Freiberg AN, Statsyuk AV, Gingras AR, Degterev A, Tomilov A, Vrielink A, Garaeva AA, Bryant-Friedrich A, Caflisch A, Patel AK, Rangarajan AV, Matheeussen A, Battistoni A, Caporali A, Chini A, Ilari A, Mattevi A, Foote AT, Trabocchi A, Stahl A, Herr AB, Berti A, Freywald A, Reidenbach AG, Lam A, Cuddihy AR, White A, Taglialatela A, Ojha AK, Cathcart AM, Motyl AAL, Borowska A, D’Antuono A, Hirsch AKH, Porcelli AM, Minakova A, Montanaro A, Müller A, Fiorillo A, Virtanen A, O’Donoghue AJ, Del Rio Flores A, Garmendia AE, Pineda-Lucena A, Panganiban AT, Samantha A, Chatterjee AK, Haas AL, Paparella AS, John ALS, Prince A, ElSheikh A, Apfel AM, Colomba A, O’Dea A, Diallo BN, Ribeiro BMRM, Bailey-Elkin BA, Edelman BL, Liou B, Perry B, Chua BSK, Kováts B, Englinger B, Balakrishnan B, Gong B, Agianian B, Pressly B, Salas BPM, Duggan BM, Geisbrecht BV, Dymock BW, Morten BC, Hammock BD, Mota BEF, Dickinson BC, Fraser C, Lempicki C, Novina CD, Torner C, Ballatore C, Bon C, Chapman CJ, Partch CL, Chaton CT, Huang C, Yang CY, Kahler CM, Karan C, Keller C, Dieck CL, Huimei C, Liu C, Peltier C, Mantri CK, Kemet CM, Müller CE, Weber C, Zeina CM, Muli CS, Morisseau C, Alkan C, Reglero C, Loy CA, Wilson CM, Myhr C, Arrigoni C, Paulino C, Santiago C, Luo D, Tumes DJ, Keedy DA, Lawrence DA, Chen D, Manor D, Trader DJ, Hildeman DA, Drewry DH, Dowling DJ, Hosfield DJ, Smith DM, Moreira D, Siderovski DP, Shum D, Krist DT, Riches DWH, Ferraris DM, Anderson DH, Coombe DR, Welsbie DS, Hu D, Ortiz D, Alramadhani D, Zhang D, Chaudhuri D, Slotboom DJ, Ronning DR, Lee D, Dirksen D, Shoue DA, Zochodne DW, Krishnamurthy D, Duncan D, Glubb DM, Gelardi ELM, Hsiao EC, Lynn EG, Silva EB, Aguilera E, Lenci E, Abraham ET, Lama E, Mameli E, Leung E, Christensen EM, Mason ER, Petretto E, Trakhtenberg EF, Rubin EJ, Strauss E, Thompson EW, Cione E, Lisabeth EM, Fan E, Kroon EG, Jo E, García-Cuesta EM, Glukhov E, Gavathiotis E, Yu F, Xiang F, Leng F, Wang F, Ingoglia F, van den Akker F, Borriello F, Vizeacoumar FJ, Luh F, Buckner FS, Vizeacoumar FS, Bdira FB, Svensson F, Rodriguez GM, Bognár G, Lembo G, Zhang G, Dempsey G, Eitzen G, Mayer G, Greene GL, Garcia GA, Lukacs GL, Prikler G, Parico GCG, Colotti G, De Keulenaer G, Cortopassi G, Roti G, Girolimetti G, Fiermonte G, Gasparre G, Leuzzi G, Dahal G, Michlewski G, Conn GL, Stuchbury GD, Bowman GR, Popowicz GM, Veit G, de Souza GE, Akk G, Caljon G, Alvarez G, Rucinski G, Lee G, Cildir G, Li H, Breton HE, Jafar-Nejad H, Zhou H, Moore HP, Tilford H, Yuan H, Shim H, Wulff H, Hoppe H, Chaytow H, Tam HK, Van Remmen H, Xu H, Debonsi HM, Lieberman HB, Jung H, Fan HY, Feng H, Zhou H, Kim HJ, Greig IR, Caliandro I, Corvo I, Arozarena I, Mungrue IN, Verhamme IM, Qureshi IA, Lotsaris I, Cakir I, Perry JJP, Kwiatkowski J, Boorman J, Ferreira J, Fries J, Kratz JM, Miner J, Siqueira-Neto JL, Granneman JG, Ng J, Shorter J, Voss JH, Gebauer JM, Chuah J, Mousa JJ, Maynes JT, Evans JD, Dickhout J, MacKeigan JP, Jossart JN, Zhou J, Lin J, Xu J, Wang J, Zhu J, Liao J, Xu J, Zhao J, Lin J, Lee J, Reis J, Stetefeld J, Bruning JB, Bruning JB, Coles JG, Tanner JJ, Pascal JM, So J, Pederick JL, Costoya JA, Rayman JB, Maciag JJ, Nasburg JA, Gruber JJ, Finkelstein JM, Watkins J, Rodríguez-Frade JM, Arias JAS, Lasarte JJ, Oyarzabal J, Milosavljevic J, Cools J, Lescar J, Bogomolovas J, Wang J, Kee JM, Kee JM, Liao J, Sistla JC, Abrahão JS, Sishtla K, Francisco KR, Hansen KB, Molyneaux KA, Cunningham KA, Martin KR, Gadar K, Ojo KK, Wong KS, Wentworth KL, Lai K, Lobb KA, Hopkins KM, Parang K, Machaca K, Pham K, Ghilarducci K, Sugamori KS, McManus KJ, Musta K, Faller KME, Nagamori K, Mostert KJ, Korotkov KV, Liu K, Smith KS, Sarosiek K, Rohde KH, Kim KK, Lee KH, Pusztai L, Lehtiö L, Haupt LM, Cowen LE, Byrne LJ, Su L, Wert-Lamas L, Puchades-Carrasco L, Chen L, Malkas LH, Zhuo L, Hedstrom L, Hedstrom L, Walensky LD, Antonelli L, Iommarini L, Whitesell L, Randall LM, Fathallah MD, Nagai MH, Kilkenny ML, Ben-Johny M, Lussier MP, Windisch MP, Lolicato M, Lolli ML, Vleminckx M, Caroleo MC, Macias MJ, Valli M, Barghash MM, Mellado M, Tye MA, Wilson MA, Hannink M, Ashton MR, Cerna MVC, Giorgis M, Safo MK, Maurice MS, McDowell MA, Pasquali M, Mehedi M, Serafim MSM, Soellner MB, Alteen MG, Champion MM, Skorodinsky M, O’Mara ML, Bedi M, Rizzi M, Levin M, Mowat M, Jackson MR, Paige M, Al-Yozbaki M, Giardini MA, Maksimainen MM, De Luise M, Hussain MS, Christodoulides M, Stec N, Zelinskaya N, Van Pelt N, Merrill NM, Singh N, Kootstra NA, Singh N, Gandhi NS, Chan NL, Trinh NM, Schneider NO, Matovic N, Horstmann N, Longo N, Bharambe N, Rouzbeh N, Mahmoodi N, Gumede NJ, Anastasio NC, Khalaf NB, Rabal O, Kandror O, Escaffre O, Silvennoinen O, Bishop OT, Iglesias P, Sobrado P, Chuong P, O’Connell P, Martin-Malpartida P, Mellor P, Fish PV, Moreira POL, Zhou P, Liu P, Liu P, Wu P, Agogo-Mawuli P, Jones PL, Ngoi P, Toogood P, Ip P, von Hundelshausen P, Lee PH, Rowswell-Turner RB, Balaña-Fouce R, Rocha REO, Guido RVC, Ferreira RS, Agrawal RK, Harijan RK, Ramachandran R, Verma R, Singh RK, Tiwari RK, Mazitschek R, Koppisetti RK, Dame RT, Douville RN, Austin RC, Taylor RE, Moore RG, Ebright RH, Angell RM, Yan R, Kejriwal R, Batey RA, Blelloch R, Vandenberg RJ, Hickey RJ, Kelm RJ, Lake RJ, Bradley RK, Blumenthal RM, Solano R, Gierse RM, Viola RE, McCarthy RR, Reguera RM, Uribe RV, do Monte-Neto RL, Gorgoglione R, Cullinane RT, Katyal S, Hossain S, Phadke S, Shelburne SA, Geden SE, Johannsen S, Wazir S, Legare S, Landfear SM, Radhakrishnan SK, Ammendola S, Dzhumaev S, Seo SY, Li S, Zhou S, Chu S, Chauhan S, Maruta S, Ashkar SR, Shyng SL, Conticello SG, Buroni S, Garavaglia S, White SJ, Zhu S, Tsimbalyuk S, Chadni SH, Byun SY, Park S, Xu SQ, Banerjee S, Zahler S, Espinoza S, Gustincich S, Sainas S, Celano SL, Capuzzi SJ, Waggoner SN, Poirier S, Olson SH, Marx SO, Van Doren SR, Sarilla S, Brady-Kalnay SM, Dallman S, Azeem SM, Teramoto T, Mehlman T, Swart T, Abaffy T, Akopian T, Haikarainen T, Moreda TL, Ikegami T, Teixeira TR, Jayasinghe TD, Gillingwater TH, Kampourakis T, Richardson TI, Herdendorf TJ, Kotzé TJ, O’Meara TR, Corson TW, Hermle T, Ogunwa TH, Lan T, Su T, Banjo T, O’Mara TA, Chou T, Chou TF, Baumann U, Desai UR, Pai VP, Thai VC, Tandon V, Banerji V, Robinson VL, Gunasekharan V, Namasivayam V, Segers VFM, Maranda V, Dolce V, Maltarollo VG, Scoffone VC, Woods VA, Ronchi VP, Van Hung Le V, Clayton WB, Lowther WT, Houry WA, Li W, Tang W, Zhang W, Van Voorhis WC, Donaldson WA, Hahn WC, Kerr WG, Gerwick WH, Bradshaw WJ, Foong WE, Blanchet X, Wu X, Lu X, Qi X, Xu X, Yu X, Qin X, Wang X, Yuan X, Zhang X, Zhang YJ, Hu Y, Aldhamen YA, Chen Y, Li Y, Sun Y, Zhu Y, Gupta YK, Pérez-Pertejo Y, Li Y, Tang Y, He Y, Tse-Dinh YC, Sidorova YA, Yen Y, Li Y, Frangos ZJ, Chung Z, Su Z, Wang Z, Zhang Z, Liu Z, Inde Z, Artía Z, Heifets A. AI is a viable alternative to high throughput screening: a 318-target study. Sci Rep 2024; 14:7526. [PMID: 38565852 PMCID: PMC10987645 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-54655-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2023] [Accepted: 02/15/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024] Open
Abstract
High throughput screening (HTS) is routinely used to identify bioactive small molecules. This requires physical compounds, which limits coverage of accessible chemical space. Computational approaches combined with vast on-demand chemical libraries can access far greater chemical space, provided that the predictive accuracy is sufficient to identify useful molecules. Through the largest and most diverse virtual HTS campaign reported to date, comprising 318 individual projects, we demonstrate that our AtomNet® convolutional neural network successfully finds novel hits across every major therapeutic area and protein class. We address historical limitations of computational screening by demonstrating success for target proteins without known binders, high-quality X-ray crystal structures, or manual cherry-picking of compounds. We show that the molecules selected by the AtomNet® model are novel drug-like scaffolds rather than minor modifications to known bioactive compounds. Our empirical results suggest that computational methods can substantially replace HTS as the first step of small-molecule drug discovery.
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Woodward E, Duggan BM. Changes in Internal Structure and Dynamics upon Binding Stabilise the Nematode Anticoagulant NAPc2. Biomolecules 2024; 14:421. [PMID: 38672438 PMCID: PMC11048057 DOI: 10.3390/biom14040421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2024] [Revised: 03/27/2024] [Accepted: 03/29/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024] Open
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Abnormal blood coagulation is a major health problem and natural anticoagulants from blood-feeding organisms have been investigated as novel therapeutics. NAPc2, a potent nematode-derived inhibitor of coagulation, has an unusual mode of action that requires coagulation factor Xa but does not inhibit it. Molecular dynamics simulations of NAPc2 and factor Xa were generated to better understand NAPc2. The simulations suggest that parts of NAPc2 become more rigid upon binding factor Xa and reveal that two highly conserved residues form an internal salt bridge that stabilises the bound conformation. Clotting time assays with mutants confirmed the utility of the salt bridge and suggested that it is a conserved mechanism for stabilising the bound conformation of secondary structure-poor protease inhibitors.
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Pham NT, Alves J, Sargison FA, Cullum R, Wildenhain J, Fenical W, Butler MS, Mead DA, Duggan BM, Fitzgerald JR, La Clair JJ, Auer M. Nanoscaled Discovery of a Shunt Rifamycin from Salinispora arenicola Using a Three-Color GFP-Tagged Staphylococcus aureus Macrophage Infection Assay. ACS Infect Dis 2023; 9:1499-1507. [PMID: 37433130 PMCID: PMC10425972 DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.3c00049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2023] [Indexed: 07/13/2023]
Abstract
Antimicrobial resistance has emerged as a global public health threat, and development of novel therapeutics for treating infections caused by multi-drug resistant bacteria is urgent. Staphylococcus aureus is a major human and animal pathogen, responsible for high levels of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The intracellular survival of S. aureus in macrophages contributes to immune evasion, dissemination, and resilience to antibiotic treatment. Here, we present a confocal fluorescence imaging assay for monitoring macrophage infection by green fluorescent protein (GFP)-tagged S. aureus as a front-line tool to identify antibiotic leads. The assay was employed in combination with nanoscaled chemical analyses to facilitate the discovery of a new, active rifamycin analogue. Our findings indicate a promising new approach for the identification of antimicrobial compounds with macrophage intracellular activity. The antibiotic identified here may represent a useful addition to our armory in tackling the silent pandemic of antimicrobial resistance.
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- Nhan T. Pham
- School
of Biological Sciences, The University of
Edinburgh, The King’s Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3BF, U.K.
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- The
Roslin Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush Campus, Midlothian EH25 9RG, U.K.
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- The
Roslin Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush Campus, Midlothian EH25 9RG, U.K.
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- Center
for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0204, United
States
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- Exscientia
Oxford Science Park, The Schrödinger Building, Oxford Science Park, Oxford OX4 4GE, U.K.
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- Center
for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0204, United
States
- Skaggs
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Xenobe Research Institute, P. O. Box 3052, San Diego, California 92163, United States
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- Terra
Bioforge
Inc., 3220 Deming Way
Suite 100, Middleton, Wisconsin 53562, United States
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- Skaggs
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- The
Roslin Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush Campus, Midlothian EH25 9RG, U.K.
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- Xenobe Research Institute, P. O. Box 3052, San Diego, California 92163, United States
- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University
of California at San Diego, La
Jolla, California 92093-0358, United States
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- School
of Biological Sciences, The University of
Edinburgh, The King’s Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3BF, U.K.
- Xenobe Research Institute, P. O. Box 3052, San Diego, California 92163, United States
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Stankey RJ, Johnson D, Duggan BM, Mead DA, La Clair JJ. A Survey of Didemnin Depsipeptide Production in Tistrella. Mar Drugs 2023; 21:md21020056. [PMID: 36827097 PMCID: PMC9964501 DOI: 10.3390/md21020056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2022] [Revised: 01/07/2023] [Accepted: 01/12/2023] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
Abstract
As one of the first families of marine natural products to undergo clinical trials, the didemnin depsipeptides have played a significant role in inspiring the discovery of marine drugs. Originally developed as anticancer therapeutics, the recent re-evaluation of these compounds including synthetically derived dehydrodidemnin B or Aplidine, has led to their advancement towards antiviral applications. While conventionally associated with production in colonial tunicates of the family Didemnidae, recent studies have identified their biosynthetic gene clusters from the marine-derived bacteria Tistrella mobilis. While these studies confirm the production of didemnin X/Y, the low titer and general lack of understanding of their biosynthesis in Tistrella currently prevents the development of effective microbial or synthetic biological approaches for their production. To this end, we conducted a survey of known species of Tistrella and report on their ability to produce the didemnin depsipeptides. These data were used to develop conditions to produce didemnin B at titers over 15 mg/L.
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- Terra Bioworks Inc., Middleton, WI 53562, USA
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, 9500 Gilman Drive, San Diego, CA 92093-0657, USA
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- Terra Bioworks Inc., Middleton, WI 53562, USA
- Correspondence: (D.A.M.); (J.J.L.C.)
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093-0358, USA
- Xenobe Research Institute, P.O. Box 3052, San Diego, CA 92163-1052, USA
- Correspondence: (D.A.M.); (J.J.L.C.)
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Liang Z, Soriano-Castell D, Kepchia D, Duggan BM, Currais A, Schubert D, Maher P. Corrigendum to "Cannabinol inhibits oxytosis/ferroptosis by directly targeting mitochondria independently of cannabinoid receptors" [Free Radic. Biol. Med. 180 (2020 Feb 20) 33-51]. Free Radic Biol Med 2022; 184:16. [PMID: 35381547 PMCID: PMC9116140 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2022.03.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Zhibin Liang
- Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA, 92037, United States; The Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Aging Research, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA, 92037, United States.
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- Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA, 92037, United States
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- Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA, 92037, United States
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92093, United States
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- Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA, 92037, United States
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- Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA, 92037, United States; The Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Aging Research, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA, 92037, United States
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- Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA, 92037, United States.
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Liang Z, Soriano-Castell D, Kepchia D, Duggan BM, Currais A, Schubert D, Maher P. Cannabinol inhibits oxytosis/ferroptosis by directly targeting mitochondria independently of cannabinoid receptors. Free Radic Biol Med 2022; 180:33-51. [PMID: 34999187 PMCID: PMC8840979 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2022.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2021] [Revised: 12/08/2021] [Accepted: 01/03/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
Abstract
The oxytosis/ferroptosis regulated cell death pathway recapitulates many features of mitochondrial dysfunction associated with the aging brain and has emerged as a potential key mediator of neurodegeneration. It has thus been proposed that the oxytosis/ferroptosis pathway can be used to identify novel drug candidates for the treatment of age-associated neurodegenerative diseases that act by preserving mitochondrial function. Previously, we identified cannabinol (CBN) as a potent neuroprotector. Here, we demonstrate that not only does CBN protect nerve cells from oxytosis/ferroptosis in a manner that is dependent on mitochondria and it does so independently of cannabinoid receptors. Specifically, CBN directly targets mitochondria and preserves key mitochondrial functions including redox regulation, calcium uptake, membrane potential, bioenergetics, biogenesis, and modulation of fusion/fission dynamics that are disrupted following induction of oxytosis/ferroptosis. These protective effects of CBN are at least partly mediated by the promotion of endogenous antioxidant defenses and the activation of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) signaling. Together, our data highlight the potential of mitochondrially-targeted compounds such as CBN as novel oxytotic/ferroptotic inhibitors to rescue mitochondrial dysfunction as well as opportunities for the discovery and development of future neurotherapeutics.
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- Zhibin Liang
- Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA, 92037, United States; The Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Aging Research, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA, 92037, United States.
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- Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA, 92037, United States
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- Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA, 92037, United States
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92093, United States
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- Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA, 92037, United States
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- Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA, 92037, United States; The Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Aging Research, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA, 92037, United States
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- Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA, 92037, United States.
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Kellett K, Slochower DR, Schauperl M, Duggan BM, Gilson MK. Experimental characterization of the association of β-cyclodextrin and eight novel cyclodextrin derivatives with two guest compounds. J Comput Aided Mol Des 2020; 35:95-104. [PMID: 33037548 DOI: 10.1007/s10822-020-00350-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2020] [Accepted: 09/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
Abstract
We investigate the binding of native β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) and eight novel β-CD derivatives with two different guest compounds, using isothermal calorimetry and 2D NOESY NMR. In all cases, the stoichiometry is 1:1 and binding is exothermic. Overall, modifications at the 3' position of β-CD, which is at the secondary face, weaken binding by several kJ/mol relative to native β-CD, while modifications at the 6' position (primary face) maintain or somewhat reduce the binding affinity. The variations in binding enthalpy are larger than the variations in binding free energy, so entropy-enthalpy compensation is observed. Characterization of the bound conformations with NOESY NMR shows that the polar groups of the guests may be situated at either face, depending on the host molecule, and, in some cases, both orientations are populated. The present results were used in the SAMPL7 blinded prediction challenge whose results are detailed in the same special issue of JCAMD.
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- K Kellett
- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0751, USA
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0751, USA
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0751, USA
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0751, USA
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0751, USA.
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Uranga CC, Arroyo P, Duggan BM, Gerwick WH, Edlund A. Commensal Oral Rothia mucilaginosa Produces Enterobactin, a Metal-Chelating Siderophore. mSystems 2020; 5:e00161-20. [PMID: 32345739 PMCID: PMC7190385 DOI: 10.1128/msystems.00161-20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2020] [Accepted: 04/13/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
Abstract
Next-generation sequencing studies of saliva and dental plaque from subjects in both healthy and diseased states have identified bacteria belonging to the Rothia genus as ubiquitous members of the oral microbiota. To gain a deeper understanding of molecular mechanisms underlying the chemical ecology of this unexplored group, we applied a genome mining approach that targets functionally important biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs). All 45 genomes that were mined, representing Rothia mucilaginosa, Rothia dentocariosa, and Rothia aeria, harbored a catechol-siderophore-like BGC. To explore siderophore production further, we grew the previously characterized R. mucilaginosa ATCC 25296 in liquid cultures, amended with glycerol, which led to the identification of the archetype siderophore enterobactin by using tandem liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Normally attributed to pathogenic gut bacteria, R. mucilaginosa is the first commensal oral bacterium found to produce enterobactin. Cocultivation studies including R. mucilaginosa or purified enterobactin revealed that enterobactin reduced growth of certain strains of cariogenic Streptococcus mutans and pathogenic strains of Staphylococcus aureus Commensal oral bacteria were either unaffected, reduced in growth, or induced to grow adjacent to enterobactin-producing R. mucilaginosa or the pure compound. Taken together with Rothia's known capacity to ferment a variety of carbohydrates and amino acids, our findings of enterobactin production add an additional level of explanation to R. mucilaginosa's prevalence in the oral cavity. Enterobactin is the strongest Fe(III) binding siderophore known, and its role in oral health requires further investigation.IMPORTANCE The communication language of the human oral microbiota is vastly underexplored. However, a few studies have shown that specialized small molecules encoded by BGCs have critical roles such as in colonization resistance against pathogens and quorum sensing. Here, by using a genome mining approach in combination with compound screening of growth cultures, we identified that the commensal oral community member R. mucilaginosa harbors a catecholate-siderophore BGC, which is responsible for the biosynthesis of enterobactin. The iron-scavenging role of enterobactin is known to have positive effects on the host's iron pool and negative effects on host immune function; however, its role in oral health remains unexplored. R. mucilaginosa was previously identified as an abundant community member in cystic fibrosis, where bacterial iron cycling plays a major role in virulence development. With respect to iron's broad biological importance, iron-chelating enterobactin may explain R. mucilaginosa's colonization success in both health and disease.
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- Carla C Uranga
- J. Craig Venter Institute, Genomic Medicine Group, La Jolla, California, USA
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- J. Craig Venter Institute, Genomic Medicine Group, La Jolla, California, USA
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- University of California San Diego, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, La Jolla, California, USA
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- University of California San Diego, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, La Jolla, California, USA
- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
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- J. Craig Venter Institute, Genomic Medicine Group, La Jolla, California, USA
- University of California San Diego, School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, La Jolla, California, USA
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Duggan BM, Cullum R, Fenical W, Amador LA, Rodríguez AD, La Clair JJ. Corrigendum: Searching for Small Molecules with an Atomic Sort. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020; 59:4993. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.202000826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Duggan BM, Cullum R, Fenical W, Amador LA, Rodríguez AD, La Clair JJ. Berichtigung: Searching for Small Molecules with an Atomic Sort. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202000826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Keller L, Canuto KM, Liu C, Suzuki BM, Almaliti J, Sikandar A, Naman CB, Glukhov E, Luo D, Duggan BM, Luesch H, Koehnke J, O’Donoghue AJ, Gerwick WH. Tutuilamides A-C: Vinyl-Chloride-Containing Cyclodepsipeptides from Marine Cyanobacteria with Potent Elastase Inhibitory Properties. ACS Chem Biol 2020; 15:751-757. [PMID: 31935054 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.9b00992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Marine cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) have been shown to possess an enormous capacity to produce structurally diverse natural products that exhibit a broad spectrum of potent biological activities, including cytotoxic, antifungal, antiparasitic, antiviral, and antibacterial activities. Using mass-spectrometry-guided fractionation together with molecular networking, cyanobacterial field collections from American Samoa and Palmyra Atoll yielded three new cyclic peptides, tutuilamides A-C. Their structures were established by spectroscopic techniques including 1D and 2D NMR, HR-MS, and chemical derivatization. Structure elucidation was facilitated by employing advanced NMR techniques including nonuniform sampling in combination with the 1,1-ADEQUATE experiment. These cyclic peptides are characterized by the presence of several unusual residues including 3-amino-6-hydroxy-2-piperidone and 2-amino-2-butenoic acid, together with a novel vinyl chloride-containing residue. Tutuilamides A-C show potent elastase inhibitory activity together with moderate potency in H-460 lung cancer cell cytotoxicity assays. The binding mode to elastase was analyzed by X-ray crystallography revealing a reversible binding mode similar to the natural product lyngbyastatin 7. The presence of an additional hydrogen bond with the amino acid backbone of the flexible side chain of tutuilamide A, compared to lyngbyastatin 7, facilitates its stabilization in the elastase binding pocket and possibly explains its enhanced inhibitory potency.
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- Lena Keller
- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
- Embrapa Agroindústria Tropical, Fortaleza, Ceará 60511-110, Brazil
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Jordan, Amman 11942, Jordan
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- Workgroup Structural Biology of Biosynthetic Enzymes, Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Saarland University, Saarbrücken 66123, Germany
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
- Li Dak Sum Yip Yio Chin Kenneth Li Marine Biopharmaceutical Research Center, Department of Marine Pharmacy, College of Food and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315800, People’s Republic of China
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Center for Natural Products, Drug Discovery and Development (CNPD3), University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610, United States
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Center for Natural Products, Drug Discovery and Development (CNPD3), University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610, United States
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- Workgroup Structural Biology of Biosynthetic Enzymes, Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Saarland University, Saarbrücken 66123, Germany
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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Reher R, Kim HW, Zhang C, Mao HH, Wang M, Nothias LF, Caraballo-Rodriguez AM, Glukhov E, Teke B, Leao T, Alexander KL, Duggan BM, Van Everbroeck EL, Dorrestein PC, Cottrell GW, Gerwick WH. A Convolutional Neural Network-Based Approach for the Rapid Annotation of Molecularly Diverse Natural Products. J Am Chem Soc 2020; 142:4114-4120. [PMID: 32045230 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b13786] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
This report describes the first application of the novel NMR-based machine learning tool "Small Molecule Accurate Recognition Technology" (SMART 2.0) for mixture analysis and subsequent accelerated discovery and characterization of new natural products. The concept was applied to the extract of a filamentous marine cyanobacterium known to be a prolific producer of cytotoxic natural products. This environmental Symploca extract was roughly fractionated, and then prioritized and guided by cancer cell cytotoxicity, NMR-based SMART 2.0, and MS2-based molecular networking. This led to the isolation and rapid identification of a new chimeric swinholide-like macrolide, symplocolide A, as well as the annotation of swinholide A, samholides A-I, and several new derivatives. The planar structure of symplocolide A was confirmed to be a structural hybrid between swinholide A and luminaolide B by 1D/2D NMR and LC-MS2 analysis. A second example applies SMART 2.0 to the characterization of structurally novel cyclic peptides, and compares this approach to the recently appearing "atomic sort" method. This study exemplifies the revolutionary potential of combined traditional and deep learning-assisted analytical approaches to overcome longstanding challenges in natural products drug discovery.
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- Raphael Reher
- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, United States.,Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, United States.,Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Director's Office, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, United States.,Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Brendan M. Duggan
- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla CA 92093 USA
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California, San Diego La Jolla CA 92093-0204 USA
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California, San Diego La Jolla CA 92093-0204 USA
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- Molecular Sciences Research Center University of Puerto Rico 1390 Ponce de León Avenue San Juan 00926 Puerto Rico
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- Molecular Sciences Research Center University of Puerto Rico 1390 Ponce de León Avenue San Juan 00926 Puerto Rico
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla CA 92093 USA
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Duggan BM, Cullum R, Fenical W, Amador LA, Rodríguez AD, La Clair JJ. Searching for Small Molecules with an Atomic Sort. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020; 59:1144-1148. [PMID: 31696595 PMCID: PMC6942196 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201911862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2019] [Revised: 10/24/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
The discovery of biologically active small molecules requires sifting through large amounts of data to identify unique or unusual arrangements of atoms. Here, we develop, test and evaluate an atom-based sort to identify novel features of secondary metabolites and demonstrate its use to evaluate novelty in marine microbial and sponge extracts. This study outlines an important ongoing advance towards the translation of autonomous systems to identify, and ultimately elucidate, atomic novelty within a complex mixture of small molecules.
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- Brendan M Duggan
- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0204, USA
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0204, USA
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- Molecular Sciences Research Center, University of Puerto Rico, 1390 Ponce de León Avenue, San Juan, 00926, Puerto Rico
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- Molecular Sciences Research Center, University of Puerto Rico, 1390 Ponce de León Avenue, San Juan, 00926, Puerto Rico
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA
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Camacho-Hernandez GA, Stokes C, Duggan BM, Kaczanowska K, Brandao-Araiza S, Doan L, Papke RL, Taylor P. Synthesis, Pharmacological Characterization, and Structure-Activity Relationships of Noncanonical Selective Agonists for α7 nAChRs. J Med Chem 2019; 62:10376-10390. [PMID: 31675224 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.9b01467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
Abstract
A lack of selectivity of classical agonists for the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChR) has prompted us to identify and develop a distinct scaffold of α7 nAChR-selective ligands. Noncanonical 2,4,6-substituted pyrimidine analogues were framed around compound 40 for a structure-activity relationship study. The new lead compounds activate selectively the α7 nAChRs with EC50's between 30 and 140 nM in a PNU-120596-dependent, cell-based calcium influx assay. After characterizing the expanded lead landscape, we ranked the compounds for rapid activation using Xenopus oocytes expressing human α7 nAChR with a two-electrode voltage clamp. This approach enabled us to define the molecular determinants governing rapid activation, agonist potency, and desensitization of α7 nAChRs after exposure to pyrimidine analogues, thereby distinguishing this subclass of noncanonical agonists from previously defined types of agonists (agonists, partial agonists, silent agonists, and ago-PAMs). By NMR, we analyzed pKa values for ionization of lead candidates, demonstrating distinctive modes of interaction for this landscape of ligands.
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- Gisela Andrea Camacho-Hernandez
- Department of Pharmacology, Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences , University of California-San Diego , La Jolla , California 92093-0751 , United States
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- Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics , University of Florida , P.O. Box 100267, Gainesville , Florida 32610-0267 , United States
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- Department of Pharmacology, Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences , University of California-San Diego , La Jolla , California 92093-0751 , United States
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- Department of Pharmacology, Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences , University of California-San Diego , La Jolla , California 92093-0751 , United States
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- Department of Pharmacology, Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences , University of California-San Diego , La Jolla , California 92093-0751 , United States
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- Department of Pharmacology, Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences , University of California-San Diego , La Jolla , California 92093-0751 , United States
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- Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics , University of Florida , P.O. Box 100267, Gainesville , Florida 32610-0267 , United States
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- Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics , University of Florida , P.O. Box 100267, Gainesville , Florida 32610-0267 , United States
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Ómarsdóttir S, Wang X, Liu HB, Duggan BM, Molinski TF. Lepadins I-K, 3- O-(3'-Methylthio)acryloyloxy-decahydroquinoline Esters from a Bahamian Ascidian Didemnum sp. Assignment of Absolute Stereostructures. J Org Chem 2018; 83:13670-13677. [PMID: 30280573 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.8b01609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Three decahydroisoquinoline alkaloids, lepadins I-K, were isolated from a specimen of Didemnum sp. collected in the Bahamas. The structures of the new compounds were assigned by an integrated analysis of MS, IR, and 1H, 13C, and 2D NMR spectra. Like previously reported lepadins, the structures of the new compounds contain a decahydroquinoline heterocyclic core in lepadin I, and a new variation, an octahydroquinoline in lepadin J, but differ from earlier reported compounds by acylation of the 3-hydroxyl group by a rare 3'-methylthioacrylate. The absolute configuration of lepadin I was solved by interpretation of NOE measurements, and exciton coupled circular dichroism (ECCD) of the corresponding N- p-bromobenzoyl derivative. The latter constitutes a general method for determination of absolute configuration of the entire lepadin family. The configuration of the remote side-chain secondary carbinol was solved by the modified Mosher's esters method. Lepadin I inhibited butyrylcholineesterase (BuChE, IC50 3.1 μM), but only weakly inhibited acetylcholineesterase (AChE) (10% at 100 μM).
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- Sesselja Ómarsdóttir
- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences , University of Iceland , Hofsvallagata 53 , Reykjavik 107 , Iceland
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences , University of Iceland , Hofsvallagata 53 , Reykjavik 107 , Iceland
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O'Rourke A, Kremb S, Duggan BM, Sioud S, Kharbatia N, Raji M, Emwas AH, Gerwick WH, Voolstra CR. Identification of a 3-Alkylpyridinium Compound from the Red Sea Sponge Amphimedon chloros with In Vitro Inhibitory Activity against the West Nile Virus NS3 Protease. Molecules 2018; 23:E1472. [PMID: 29912151 PMCID: PMC6099703 DOI: 10.3390/molecules23061472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2018] [Revised: 06/12/2018] [Accepted: 06/15/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Viruses are underrepresented as targets in pharmacological screening efforts, given the difficulties of devising suitable cell-based and biochemical assays. In this study we found that a pre-fractionated organic extract of the Red Sea sponge Amphimedon chloros was able to inhibit the West Nile Virus NS3 protease (WNV NS3). Using liquid chromatography⁻mass spectrometry (LC-MS) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, the identity of the bioactive compound was determined as a 3-alkylpyridinium with m/z = 190.16. Diffusion Ordered Spectroscopy (DOSY) NMR and NMR relaxation rate analysis suggest that the bioactive compound forms oligomers of up to 35 kDa. We observed that at 9.4 μg/mL there was up to 40⁻70% inhibitory activity on WNV NS3 protease in orthogonal biochemical assays for solid phase extracts (SPE) of A. chloros. However, the LC-MS purified fragment was effective at inhibiting the protease up to 95% at an approximate amount of 2 µg/mL with negligible cytotoxicity to HeLa cells based on a High-Content Screening (HCS) cytological profiling strategy. To date, 3-alkylpyridinium type natural products have not been reported to show antiviral activity since the first characterization of halitoxin, or 3-alkylpyridinium, in 1978. This study provides the first account of a 3-alkylpyridinium complex that exhibits a proposed antiviral activity by inhibiting the NS3 protease. We suggest that the here-described compound can be further modified to increase its stability and tested in a cell-based assay to explore its full potential as a potential novel antiviral capable of inhibiting WNV replication.
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- Aubrie O'Rourke
- Red Sea Research Center, Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering (BESE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.
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- Red Sea Research Center, Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering (BESE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.
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- Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Core Labs, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Core Labs, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Core Labs, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Core Labs, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.
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- Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
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- Red Sea Research Center, Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering (BESE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.
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Zhang C, Idelbayev Y, Roberts N, Tao Y, Nannapaneni Y, Duggan BM, Min J, Lin EC, Gerwick EC, Cottrell GW, Gerwick WH. Small Molecule Accurate Recognition Technology (SMART) to Enhance Natural Products Research. Sci Rep 2017; 7:14243. [PMID: 29079836 PMCID: PMC5660213 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-13923-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2017] [Accepted: 10/02/2017] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
Abstract
Various algorithms comparing 2D NMR spectra have been explored for their ability to dereplicate natural products as well as determine molecular structures. However, spectroscopic artefacts, solvent effects, and the interactive effect of functional group(s) on chemical shifts combine to hinder their effectiveness. Here, we leveraged Non-Uniform Sampling (NUS) 2D NMR techniques and deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to create a tool, SMART, that can assist in natural products discovery efforts. First, an NUS heteronuclear single quantum coherence (HSQC) NMR pulse sequence was adapted to a state-of-the-art nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) instrument, and data reconstruction methods were optimized, and second, a deep CNN with contrastive loss was trained on a database containing over 2,054 HSQC spectra as the training set. To demonstrate the utility of SMART, several newly isolated compounds were automatically located with their known analogues in the embedded clustering space, thereby streamlining the discovery pipeline for new natural products.
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- Chen Zhang
- Department of Nanoengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, 92093, United States of America
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, 92093, United States of America
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, 92093, United States of America
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, 92037, United States of America.,School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 511436, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, 92093, United States of America
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, 92093, United States of America
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, 92093, United States of America
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- Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, 37235, United States of America.,Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, 37235, United States of America
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- Physikalisches Institut, Universität Göttingen, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, 37077, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, 92093, United States of America.
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, 92037, United States of America. .,Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, 92093, United States of America.
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Wang M, Carver JJ, Phelan VV, Sanchez LM, Garg N, Peng Y, Nguyen DD, Watrous J, Kapono CA, Luzzatto-Knaan T, Porto C, Bouslimani A, Melnik AV, Meehan MJ, Liu WT, Crüsemann M, Boudreau PD, Esquenazi E, Sandoval-Calderón M, Kersten RD, Pace LA, Quinn RA, Duncan KR, Hsu CC, Floros DJ, Gavilan RG, Kleigrewe K, Northen T, Dutton RJ, Parrot D, Carlson EE, Aigle B, Michelsen CF, Jelsbak L, Sohlenkamp C, Pevzner P, Edlund A, McLean J, Piel J, Murphy BT, Gerwick L, Liaw CC, Yang YL, Humpf HU, Maansson M, Keyzers RA, Sims AC, Johnson AR, Sidebottom AM, Sedio BE, Klitgaard A, Larson CB, P CAB, Torres-Mendoza D, Gonzalez DJ, Silva DB, Marques LM, Demarque DP, Pociute E, O'Neill EC, Briand E, Helfrich EJN, Granatosky EA, Glukhov E, Ryffel F, Houson H, Mohimani H, Kharbush JJ, Zeng Y, Vorholt JA, Kurita KL, Charusanti P, McPhail KL, Nielsen KF, Vuong L, Elfeki M, Traxler MF, Engene N, Koyama N, Vining OB, Baric R, Silva RR, Mascuch SJ, Tomasi S, Jenkins S, Macherla V, Hoffman T, Agarwal V, Williams PG, Dai J, Neupane R, Gurr J, Rodríguez AMC, Lamsa A, Zhang C, Dorrestein K, Duggan BM, Almaliti J, Allard PM, Phapale P, Nothias LF, Alexandrov T, Litaudon M, Wolfender JL, Kyle JE, Metz TO, Peryea T, Nguyen DT, VanLeer D, Shinn P, Jadhav A, Müller R, Waters KM, Shi W, Liu X, Zhang L, Knight R, Jensen PR, Palsson BO, Pogliano K, Linington RG, Gutiérrez M, Lopes NP, Gerwick WH, Moore BS, Dorrestein PC, Bandeira N. Sharing and community curation of mass spectrometry data with Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking. Nat Biotechnol 2017; 34:828-837. [PMID: 27504778 DOI: 10.1038/nbt.3597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2254] [Impact Index Per Article: 322.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2015] [Accepted: 05/10/2016] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
The potential of the diverse chemistries present in natural products (NP) for biotechnology and medicine remains untapped because NP databases are not searchable with raw data and the NP community has no way to share data other than in published papers. Although mass spectrometry (MS) techniques are well-suited to high-throughput characterization of NP, there is a pressing need for an infrastructure to enable sharing and curation of data. We present Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking (GNPS; http://gnps.ucsd.edu), an open-access knowledge base for community-wide organization and sharing of raw, processed or identified tandem mass (MS/MS) spectrometry data. In GNPS, crowdsourced curation of freely available community-wide reference MS libraries will underpin improved annotations. Data-driven social-networking should facilitate identification of spectra and foster collaborations. We also introduce the concept of 'living data' through continuous reanalysis of deposited data.
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Affiliation(s)
- Mingxun Wang
- Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States.,Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States.,Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, United States
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Biology Department, San Diego State University, San Diego, United States
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- Scottish Association for Marine Science, Scottish Marine Institute, Oban, United Kingdom.,Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Center for Drug Discovery and Biodiversity, INDICASAT, City of Knowledge, Panama
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Genome Dynamics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States
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- FAS Center for Systems Biology, Harvard, Cambridge, United States
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- Produits naturels - Synthèses - Chimie Médicinale, University of Rennes 1, Rennes Cedex, France
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- Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States
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- Dynamique des Génomes et Adaptation Microbienne, University of Lorraine, Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France
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- Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
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- Centro de Ciencias Genómicas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Cuernavaca, Mexico
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- Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States.,Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Microbial and Environmental Genomics, J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, United States.,School of Dentistry, UC Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States
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- Department of Periodontics, University of Washington, Seattle, United States.,School of Dentistry, UC Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States
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- Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, United States
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Department of Marine Biotechnology and Resources, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Food Chemistry, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
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- School of Chemical & Physical Sciences, and Centre for Biodiscovery, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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- Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, United States
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- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Ancón, Panama.,Center for Drug Discovery and Biodiversity, INDICASAT, City of Knowledge, Panama
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- Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States.,Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Center for Drug Discovery and Biodiversity, INDICASAT, City of Knowledge, Panama
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States.,Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ribeirao Preto, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.,Centro de Ciencias Biologicas e da Saude, Universidade Fderal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Brazil
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ribeirao Preto, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ribeirao Preto, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Sirenas Marine Discovery, San Diego, United States
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States.,UMR CNRS 6553 ECOBIO, University of Rennes 1, Rennes Cedex, France
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, United States
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- PBSci-Chemistry & Biochemistry Department, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States
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- Sirenas Marine Discovery, San Diego, United States
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, United States
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, United States
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States
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- Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ribeirao Preto, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Produits naturels - Synthèses - Chimie Médicinale, University of Rennes 1, Rennes Cedex, France
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- Genome Dynamics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Center for Oceans and Human Health, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, United States
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ribeirao Preto, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Division of Biological Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Department of Nanoengineering, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Structural and Computational Biology, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, CNRS-ICSN, UPR 2301, Labex CEBA, University of Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Structural and Computational Biology, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, CNRS-ICSN, UPR 2301, Labex CEBA, University of Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Biological Sciences, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States
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- Biological Sciences, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States
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- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institute of Health, Rockville, United States
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- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institute of Health, Rockville, United States
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- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institute of Health, Rockville, United States
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- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institute of Health, Rockville, United States
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- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institute of Health, Rockville, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Biological Sciences, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States
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- School of Dentistry, UC Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States
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- Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Pediatrics, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Division of Biological Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- PBSci-Chemistry & Biochemistry Department, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, United States
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- Center for Drug Discovery and Biodiversity, INDICASAT, City of Knowledge, Panama
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ribeirao Preto, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States.,Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States.,Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States.,Center for Oceans and Human Health, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States.,Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States.,Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States.,Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States.,Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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Luzzatto-Knaan T, Garg N, Wang M, Glukhov E, Peng Y, Ackermann G, Amir A, Duggan BM, Ryazanov S, Gerwick L, Knight R, Alexandrov T, Bandeira N, Gerwick WH, Dorrestein PC. Digitizing mass spectrometry data to explore the chemical diversity and distribution of marine cyanobacteria and algae. eLife 2017; 6. [PMID: 28492366 PMCID: PMC5441867 DOI: 10.7554/elife.24214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2016] [Accepted: 04/29/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Natural product screening programs have uncovered molecules from diverse natural sources with various biological activities and unique structures. However, much is yet underexplored and additional information is hidden in these exceptional collections. We applied untargeted mass spectrometry approaches to capture the chemical space and dispersal patterns of metabolites from an in-house library of marine cyanobacterial and algal collections. Remarkably, 86% of the metabolomics signals detected were not found in other available datasets of similar nature, supporting the hypothesis that marine cyanobacteria and algae possess distinctive metabolomes. The data were plotted onto a world map representing eight major sampling sites, and revealed potential geographic locations with high chemical diversity. We demonstrate the use of these inventories as a tool to explore the diversity and distribution of natural products. Finally, we utilized this tool to guide the isolation of a new cyclic lipopeptide, yuvalamide A, from a marine cyanobacterium. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.24214.001 Cyanobacteria and algae are found in all oceans around the globe. Like plants, they can use sunlight as a source of energy in a process called photosynthesis. As a result, these organisms are important sources of oxygen and another vital nutrient called nitrogen for other marine organisms. Many of these organisms also produce a variety of other chemicals known as “natural products” to help them to survive in their environments. Some of these natural products have shown potential as medicinal drugs. The search for new chemicals with useful medicinal properties has led researchers to collect samples of algae and cyanobacteria from various locations around the world. An approach called mass spectrometry is often used to identify new chemicals because it can provide information about the structure of a molecule based on how much its fragments weigh. Luzzatto-Knaan et al. used mass spectrometry to search for new chemicals in samples of algae and cyanobacteria that had been collected by diving and snorkeling in a wide variety of tropical marine environments over several decades. The experiments reveal that the organisms in these samples produce a diverse range of chemicals, most of which were previously unknown and have not been found in other similar environmental collections. The data were grouped together into eight major collection areas covering different parts of the tropics. The samples from some areas contained a wider variety of chemicals than others. Within each collection area, some molecules were found to be very common whereas others were only present at specific locations. To highlight the distribution of these natural products, Luzzatto-Knaan et al. display the data on a world map. Further experiments used this approach as a guide to extract a previously unknown chemical called yuvalamide A from a marine cyanobacterium. The next challenge would be to associate the geographical patterns of chemicals to their potential ecological roles. This approach offers a new way to explore large-scale collections of environmental samples to discover and study new natural products. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.24214.002
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Affiliation(s)
- Tal Luzzatto-Knaan
- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, San Diego, United States
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, San Diego, United States
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- Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry and Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, San Diego, United States
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, San Diego, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, San Diego, United States
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- Departments of Pediatrics and Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, San Diego, United States
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- Departments of Pediatrics and Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, San Diego, United States
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, San Diego, United States
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, San Diego, United States
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- Departments of Pediatrics and Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, San Diego, United States
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, San Diego, United States.,European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, San Diego, United States.,Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry and Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, San Diego, United States
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, San Diego, United States.,Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, San Diego, United States
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, San Diego, United States.,Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry and Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, San Diego, United States.,Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, San Diego, United States
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Duggan BM, Rae AM, Clements DN, Hocking PM. Higher heritabilities for gait components than for overall gait scores may improve mobility in ducks. Genet Sel Evol 2017; 49:42. [PMID: 28464791 PMCID: PMC5412063 DOI: 10.1186/s12711-017-0317-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2016] [Accepted: 04/19/2017] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
Abstract
Background Genetic progress in selection for greater body mass and meat yield in poultry has been associated with an increase in gait problems which are detrimental to productivity and welfare. The incidence of suboptimal gait in breeding flocks is controlled through the use of a visual gait score, which is a subjective assessment of walking ability of each bird. The subjective nature of the visual gait score has led to concerns over its effectiveness in reducing the incidence of suboptimal gait in poultry through breeding. The aims of this study were to assess the reliability of the current visual gait scoring system in ducks and to develop a more objective method to select for better gait. Results Experienced gait scorers assessed short video clips of walking ducks to estimate the reliability of the current visual gait scoring system. Kendall’s coefficients of concordance between and within observers were estimated at 0.49 and 0.75, respectively. In order to develop a more objective scoring system, gait components were visually scored on more than 4000 pedigreed Pekin ducks and genetic parameters were estimated for these components. Gait components, which are a more objective measure, had heritabilities that were as good as, or better than, those of the overall visual gait score. Conclusions Measurement of gait components is simpler and therefore more objective than the standard visual gait score. The recording of gait components can potentially be automated, which may increase accuracy further and may improve heritability estimates. Genetic correlations were generally low, which suggests that it is possible to use gait components to select for an overall improvement in both economic traits and gait as part of a balanced breeding programme.
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- Brendan M Duggan
- The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Midlothian, EH25 9RG, UK.
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- Cherry Valley Farms Ltd., Laceby Business Park, Grimsby Road, Laceby, North Lincolnshire, DN37 7DP, UK
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- The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Midlothian, EH25 9RG, UK
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- The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Midlothian, EH25 9RG, UK
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Wang X, Duggan BM, Molinski TF. Ultra-high resolution band-selective HSQC for nanomole-scale identification of chlorine-substituted 13 C in natural products drug discovery. Magn Reson Chem 2017; 55:263-268. [PMID: 26951950 PMCID: PMC6411301 DOI: 10.1002/mrc.4415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2015] [Revised: 12/09/2015] [Accepted: 01/07/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
Abstract
Ultra-high resolution band-selective HSQC (bsHSQC) has been employed for detection of 35 Cl-37 Cl isotope shifted 13 C NMR signals for assignment of regioisomerism in bromo-chloro natural products. Optimum pulse sequence and instrumental parameters for maximization of detection of the isotope shifts were explored. The chlorine isotope shifts (Δδ) were detected within crosspeaks and were shown to vary with hybridization of 13 C, substitution of 13 C, presence of β-chloro substituents, and their relative configuration. Deconvolution of Cl-substituted CH bsHSQC crosspeaks may provide other useful information, including a potentially MS-independent method for quantitating 37 Cl/35 C isotopic fractionation during the biosynthesis of halogenated natural products. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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- Xiao Wang
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr. MC-0358, La Jolla, California 92093-0358
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr. MC-0358, La Jolla, California 92093-0358
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr. MC-0358, La Jolla, California 92093-0358
- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr. MC-0358, La Jolla, California 92093-0358
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Nguyen DD, Melnik AV, Koyama N, Lu X, Schorn M, Fang J, Aguinaldo K, Lincecum TL, Ghequire MGK, Carrion VJ, Cheng TL, Duggan BM, Malone JG, Mauchline TH, Sanchez LM, Kilpatrick AM, Raaijmakers JM, De Mot R, Moore BS, Medema MH, Dorrestein PC. Erratum: Indexing the Pseudomonas specialized metabolome enabled the discovery of poaeamide B and the bananamides. Nat Microbiol 2017; 2:17010. [PMID: 28112718 DOI: 10.1038/nmicrobiol.2017.10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Li ZR, Li J, Gu JP, Lai JYH, Duggan BM, Zhang WP, Li ZL, Li YX, Tong RB, Xu Y, Lin DH, Moore BS, Qian PY. Divergent biosynthesis yields a cytotoxic aminomalonate-containing precolibactin. Nat Chem Biol 2016; 12:773-5. [PMID: 27547923 PMCID: PMC5030165 DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.2157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2016] [Accepted: 07/14/2016] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
Abstract
Colibactin is an as-yet-uncharacterized genotoxic secondary metabolite produced by human gut bacteria. Here we report the biosynthetic discovery of two new precolibactin molecules from Escherichia coli, including precolibactin-886, which uniquely incorporates the highly sought genotoxicity-associated aminomalonate building block into its unprecedented macrocyclic structure. This work provides new insights into the biosynthetic logic and mode of action of this colorectal-cancer-linked microbial chemical.
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- Zhong-Rui Li
- Division of Life Science and Environmental Science Programs, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, P. R. China
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, United States
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- High-field NMR Research Center, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P. R. China
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- Division of Life Science and Environmental Science Programs, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, P. R. China
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, United States
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- Division of Life Science and Environmental Science Programs, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, P. R. China
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- Division of Life Science and Environmental Science Programs, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, P. R. China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Bioresource & Ecoenvironmental Science, Shenzhen Engineering Laboratory for Marine Algal Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, P. R. China
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- High-field NMR Research Center, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P. R. China
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, United States
- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, United States
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- Division of Life Science and Environmental Science Programs, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, P. R. China
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Genetic selection for increased growth rate and muscle mass in broiler chickens has been accompanied by mobility issues and poor gait. There are concerns that the Pekin duck, which is on a similar selection trajectory (for production traits) to the broiler chicken, may encounter gait problems in the future. In order to understand how gait has been altered by selection, the walking ability of divergent lines of high- and low-growth chickens and ducks was objectively measured using a pressure platform, which recorded various components of their gait. In both species, lines which had been selected for large breast muscle mass moved at a slower velocity and with a greater step width than their lighter conspecifics. These high-growth lines also spent more time supported by two feet in order to improve balance when compared with their lighter, low-growth conspecifics. We demonstrate that chicken and duck lines which have been subjected to intense selection for high growth rates and meat yields have adapted their gait in similar ways. A greater understanding of which components of gait have been altered in selected lines with impaired walking ability may lead to more effective breeding strategies to improve gait in poultry. Summary: Different bird species bred for meat production have adapted their gait in similar ways to handle the extra loads imposed on their legs by larger muscle masses.
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- B M Duggan
- The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Midlothian EH25 9RG, UK
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- The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Midlothian EH25 9RG, UK
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- The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Midlothian EH25 9RG, UK
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Wang M, Carver JJ, Phelan VV, Sanchez LM, Garg N, Peng Y, Nguyen DD, Watrous J, Kapono CA, Luzzatto-Knaan T, Porto C, Bouslimani A, Melnik AV, Meehan MJ, Liu WT, Crüsemann M, Boudreau PD, Esquenazi E, Sandoval-Calderón M, Kersten RD, Pace LA, Quinn RA, Duncan KR, Hsu CC, Floros DJ, Gavilan RG, Kleigrewe K, Northen T, Dutton RJ, Parrot D, Carlson EE, Aigle B, Michelsen CF, Jelsbak L, Sohlenkamp C, Pevzner P, Edlund A, McLean J, Piel J, Murphy BT, Gerwick L, Liaw CC, Yang YL, Humpf HU, Maansson M, Keyzers RA, Sims AC, Johnson AR, Sidebottom AM, Sedio BE, Klitgaard A, Larson CB, P CAB, Torres-Mendoza D, Gonzalez DJ, Silva DB, Marques LM, Demarque DP, Pociute E, O'Neill EC, Briand E, Helfrich EJN, Granatosky EA, Glukhov E, Ryffel F, Houson H, Mohimani H, Kharbush JJ, Zeng Y, Vorholt JA, Kurita KL, Charusanti P, McPhail KL, Nielsen KF, Vuong L, Elfeki M, Traxler MF, Engene N, Koyama N, Vining OB, Baric R, Silva RR, Mascuch SJ, Tomasi S, Jenkins S, Macherla V, Hoffman T, Agarwal V, Williams PG, Dai J, Neupane R, Gurr J, Rodríguez AMC, Lamsa A, Zhang C, Dorrestein K, Duggan BM, Almaliti J, Allard PM, Phapale P, Nothias LF, Alexandrov T, Litaudon M, Wolfender JL, Kyle JE, Metz TO, Peryea T, Nguyen DT, VanLeer D, Shinn P, Jadhav A, Müller R, Waters KM, Shi W, Liu X, Zhang L, Knight R, Jensen PR, Palsson BO, Pogliano K, Linington RG, Gutiérrez M, Lopes NP, Gerwick WH, Moore BS, Dorrestein PC, Bandeira N. Sharing and community curation of mass spectrometry data with Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking. Nat Biotechnol 2016. [PMID: 27504778 DOI: 10.1038/nbt.3597.sharing] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/16/2023]
Abstract
The potential of the diverse chemistries present in natural products (NP) for biotechnology and medicine remains untapped because NP databases are not searchable with raw data and the NP community has no way to share data other than in published papers. Although mass spectrometry (MS) techniques are well-suited to high-throughput characterization of NP, there is a pressing need for an infrastructure to enable sharing and curation of data. We present Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking (GNPS; http://gnps.ucsd.edu), an open-access knowledge base for community-wide organization and sharing of raw, processed or identified tandem mass (MS/MS) spectrometry data. In GNPS, crowdsourced curation of freely available community-wide reference MS libraries will underpin improved annotations. Data-driven social-networking should facilitate identification of spectra and foster collaborations. We also introduce the concept of 'living data' through continuous reanalysis of deposited data.
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- Mingxun Wang
- Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States.,Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States.,Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, United States
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Biology Department, San Diego State University, San Diego, United States
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- Scottish Association for Marine Science, Scottish Marine Institute, Oban, United Kingdom.,Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Center for Drug Discovery and Biodiversity, INDICASAT, City of Knowledge, Panama
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Genome Dynamics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States
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- FAS Center for Systems Biology, Harvard, Cambridge, United States
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- Produits naturels - Synthèses - Chimie Médicinale, University of Rennes 1, Rennes Cedex, France
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- Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States
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- Dynamique des Génomes et Adaptation Microbienne, University of Lorraine, Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France
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- Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
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- Centro de Ciencias Genómicas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Cuernavaca, Mexico
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- Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States.,Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Microbial and Environmental Genomics, J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, United States.,School of Dentistry, UC Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States
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- Department of Periodontics, University of Washington, Seattle, United States.,School of Dentistry, UC Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States
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- Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, United States
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Department of Marine Biotechnology and Resources, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Food Chemistry, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
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- School of Chemical & Physical Sciences, and Centre for Biodiscovery, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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- Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, United States
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- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Ancón, Panama.,Center for Drug Discovery and Biodiversity, INDICASAT, City of Knowledge, Panama
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- Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States.,Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Center for Drug Discovery and Biodiversity, INDICASAT, City of Knowledge, Panama
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States.,Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ribeirao Preto, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.,Centro de Ciencias Biologicas e da Saude, Universidade Fderal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Brazil
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ribeirao Preto, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ribeirao Preto, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Sirenas Marine Discovery, San Diego, United States
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States.,UMR CNRS 6553 ECOBIO, University of Rennes 1, Rennes Cedex, France
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, United States
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- PBSci-Chemistry & Biochemistry Department, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States
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- Sirenas Marine Discovery, San Diego, United States
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, United States
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, United States
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States
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- Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ribeirao Preto, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Produits naturels - Synthèses - Chimie Médicinale, University of Rennes 1, Rennes Cedex, France
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- Genome Dynamics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Center for Oceans and Human Health, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, United States
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ribeirao Preto, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Division of Biological Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Department of Nanoengineering, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Structural and Computational Biology, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, CNRS-ICSN, UPR 2301, Labex CEBA, University of Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Structural and Computational Biology, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, CNRS-ICSN, UPR 2301, Labex CEBA, University of Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Biological Sciences, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States
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- Biological Sciences, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States
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- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institute of Health, Rockville, United States
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- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institute of Health, Rockville, United States
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- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institute of Health, Rockville, United States
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- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institute of Health, Rockville, United States
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- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institute of Health, Rockville, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Biological Sciences, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States
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- School of Dentistry, UC Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States
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- Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Pediatrics, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Division of Biological Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- PBSci-Chemistry & Biochemistry Department, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, United States
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- Center for Drug Discovery and Biodiversity, INDICASAT, City of Knowledge, Panama
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ribeirao Preto, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States.,Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States.,Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States.,Center for Oceans and Human Health, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States.,Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States.,Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States.,Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States.,Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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Abstract
Many halogenases interchangeably incorporate chlorine and bromine into organic molecules. On the basis of an unsubstantiated report that the alga Ochromonas danica, a prodigious producer of chlorosulfolipids, was able to produce bromosulfolipids, we have investigated the promiscuity of its halogenases toward bromine incorporation. We have found that bromosulfolipids are produced with the exact positional and stereochemical selectivity as in the chlorosulfolipid danicalipin A when this alga is grown under modified conditions containing excess bromide ion.
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- Alexander R. White
- 1102 Natural Sciences II, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA 92617
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- 9500 Gilman Drive, #0684, School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Science, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093
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- 1102 Natural Sciences II, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA 92617
- 3205 McGaugh Hall, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA 92617
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Carling CJ, Olejniczak J, Foucault-Collet A, Collet G, Viger ML, Nguyen Huu VA, Duggan BM, Almutairi A. Efficient Red Light Photo-Uncaging of Active Molecules in Water Upon Assembly into Nanoparticles. Chem Sci 2016; 7:2392-2398. [PMID: 27014436 PMCID: PMC4800316 DOI: 10.1039/c5sc03717d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2015] [Accepted: 12/08/2015] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
Abstract
We introduce a means of efficiently photo-uncaging active compounds from amino-1,4-benzoquinone in aqueous environments. Aqueous photochemistry of this photocage with one-photon red light is typically not efficient unless the photocaged molecules are allowed to assemble into nanoparticles. A variety of biologically active molecules were functionalized with the photocage and subsequently formulated into water-dispersible nanoparticles. Red light irradiation through various mammalian tissues achieved efficient photo-uncaging. Co-encapsulation of NIR fluorescent dyes and subsequent photomodulation provides a NIR fluorescent tool to assess both particle location and successful photorelease.
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- Carl-Johan Carling
- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
, University of California, San Diego
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9500 Gilman Dr.
, La Jolla
, California 92093
, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
, University of California, San Diego
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9500 Gilman Dr.
, La Jolla
, California 92093
, USA
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
, University of California, San Diego
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9500 Gilman Dr.
, La Jolla
, California 92093
, USA
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
, University of California, San Diego
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9500 Gilman Dr.
, La Jolla
, California 92093
, USA
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
, University of California, San Diego
,
9500 Gilman Dr.
, La Jolla
, California 92093
, USA
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- Department of Nanoengineering
, University of California, San Diego
,
9500 Gilman Dr.
, La Jolla
, California 92093
, USA
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
, University of California, San Diego
,
9500 Gilman Dr.
, La Jolla
, California 92093
, USA
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
, University of California, San Diego
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9500 Gilman Dr.
, La Jolla
, California 92093
, USA
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- Department of Nanoengineering
, University of California, San Diego
,
9500 Gilman Dr.
, La Jolla
, California 92093
, USA
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering
, University of California, San Diego
,
9500 Gilman Dr.
, La Jolla
, California 92093
, USA
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Duggan BM, Hocking PM, Schwarz T, Clements DN. Differences in hindlimb morphology of ducks and chickens: effects of domestication and selection. Genet Sel Evol 2015; 47:88. [PMID: 26576729 PMCID: PMC4647608 DOI: 10.1186/s12711-015-0166-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2015] [Accepted: 10/28/2015] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
Abstract
Background Poultry account for the most numerous species farmed for meat and have been subject to intense selection over approximately 60 generations. To assess morphological changes which have occurred in the avian leg due to selection for rapid growth and high meat yields, divergent lines of chicken (Gallus gallus) and duck (Anas platyrhynchos) were studied between 3 and 7 weeks of age. For each line, femoral and tibiotarsal morphology was recorded using computed tomography scanning and tibiotarsal bone quality measures (stiffness, bending stress and porosity) were assessed. Results In chicken and duck, divergence in hindlimb morphology has occurred in the commercial meat lines compared to their lighter conspecifics. As expected, the differences were largest between species. Leg development nears completion much earlier in ducks than in chickens. Duck tibiotarsi showed a large degree of lateral curvature, which is expected to affect foot position during swimming and walking, and thus to influence gait. All lines have adapted their tibiotarsal morphology to suit the loading forces they experience; however bone quality was found to be poorer in chickens. Conclusions We demonstrate that intensive selection for growth rate in both chickens and ducks has resulted in leg morphology changes, which are likely to influence gait. Ducks represent an interesting compromise of adaptation for efficient locomotion in two media—on land and in water. Some aspects of bone morphology in the duck, such as lateral curvature of the tibiotarsus, may result from adaptation to swimming, which potentially imposes limitations on terrestrial locomotion. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12711-015-0166-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Brendan M Duggan
- The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Midlothian, EH25 9RG, UK.
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- The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Midlothian, EH25 9RG, UK.
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- The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Midlothian, EH25 9RG, UK.
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- The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Midlothian, EH25 9RG, UK.
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Wang X, Duggan BM, Molinski TF. Mollenynes B-E from the marine sponge Spirastrella mollis. Band-selective heteronuclear single quantum coherence for discrimination of bromo-chloro regioisomerism in natural products. J Am Chem Soc 2015; 137:12343-51. [PMID: 26336030 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b07858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
Four new chlorobromohydrins, mollenynes B-E, were isolated from the marine sponge Spirastrella mollis collected from Hogsty Reef, Bahamas. Their structures were elucidated by integrated analysis of NMR, MS, and computational methods. A high-resolution band-selective HSQC experiment was developed to identify (13)C NMR signals in samples at the nanomole-scale that arise from Cl-substituted (13)C by exploiting the (35)Cl/(37)Cl isotope shift.
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- Xiao Wang
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and ‡Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego , 9500 Gilman Drive, MC-0358, La Jolla, California 92093-0358, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and ‡Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego , 9500 Gilman Drive, MC-0358, La Jolla, California 92093-0358, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and ‡Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego , 9500 Gilman Drive, MC-0358, La Jolla, California 92093-0358, United States
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Kleigrewe K, Almaliti J, Tian IY, Kinnel RB, Korobeynikov A, Monroe EA, Duggan BM, Di Marzo V, Sherman DH, Dorrestein PC, Gerwick L, Gerwick WH. Combining Mass Spectrometric Metabolic Profiling with Genomic Analysis: A Powerful Approach for Discovering Natural Products from Cyanobacteria. J Nat Prod 2015; 78:1671-82. [PMID: 26149623 PMCID: PMC4681511 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.5b00301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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An innovative approach was developed for the discovery of new natural products by combining mass spectrometric metabolic profiling with genomic analysis and resulted in the discovery of the columbamides, a new class of di- and trichlorinated acyl amides with cannabinomimetic activity. Three species of cultured marine cyanobacteria, Moorea producens 3L, Moorea producens JHB, and Moorea bouillonii PNG, were subjected to genome sequencing and analysis for their recognizable biosynthetic pathways, and this information was then compared with their respective metabolomes as detected by MS profiling. By genome analysis, a presumed regulatory domain was identified upstream of several previously described biosynthetic gene clusters in two of these cyanobacteria, M. producens 3L and M. producens JHB. A similar regulatory domain was identified in the M. bouillonii PNG genome, and a corresponding downstream biosynthetic gene cluster was located and carefully analyzed. Subsequently, MS-based molecular networking identified a series of candidate products, and these were isolated and their structures rigorously established. On the basis of their distinctive acyl amide structure, the most prevalent metabolite was evaluated for cannabinomimetic properties and found to be moderate affinity ligands for CB1.
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- Karin Kleigrewe
- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, USA
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, USA
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, USA
- University of California Berkeley, USA
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
- Center for Algorithmic Biotechnology, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
- Algorithmic Biology Laboratory, Saint Petersburg Academic University, Russia
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, USA
- Department of Biology, William Paterson University of New Jersey, USA
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, USA
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- Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry, National Research Council, Pozzuoli, Italy
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- Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, USA
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, USA
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, USA
- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, USA
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Mehrotra S, Duggan BM, Tello-Aburto R, Newar TD, Gerwick W, Murray TF, Maio WA. Detailed analysis of (-)-palmyrolide a and some synthetic derivatives as voltage-gated sodium channel antagonists. J Nat Prod 2014; 77:2553-2560. [PMID: 25343669 PMCID: PMC4251536 DOI: 10.1021/np500644k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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A small library of synthetic (-)-palmyrolide A diastereomers, analogues, and acyclic precursors have been examined with respect to their interaction with voltage-gated sodium channels (VGSCs). Toward this goal, the ability of (-)-palmyrolide A and analogues to antagonize veratridine-stimulated Na(+) influx in primary cultures of mouse cerebrocortical neurons was assessed. We found that synthetic (-)-palmyrolide A and its enantiomer functioned as VGSC antagonists to block veratridine-induced sodium influx. A detailed NMR and computational analysis of four diastereomers revealed that none had the same combination of shape and electrostatic potential as exhibited by natural (-)-palmyrolide A. These data indicate that the relative configuration about the tert-butyl and methyl substituents appears to be a prerequisite for biological function. Additional testing revealed that the enamide double bond was not necessary for blocking veratridine-induced sodium influx, whereas the acyclic analogues and other macrolide diastereomers tested were inactive as inhibitors of VGSCs, suggesting that the intact macrolide was required.
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- Suneet Mehrotra
- Department
of Pharmacology, Creighton University School
of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska 68178, United
States
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- Center
for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92037, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, New Mexico
State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, New Mexico
State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, United States
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H. Gerwick
- Center
for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92037, United States
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- Department
of Pharmacology, Creighton University School
of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska 68178, United
States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, New Mexico
State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, United States
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Casu F, Duggan BM, Hennig M. The arginine-rich RNA-binding motif of HIV-1 Rev is intrinsically disordered and folds upon RRE binding. Biophys J 2014; 105:1004-17. [PMID: 23972852 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.07.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2013] [Revised: 06/19/2013] [Accepted: 07/02/2013] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
Abstract
Arginine-rich motifs (ARMs) capable of binding diverse RNA structures play critical roles in transcription, translation, RNA trafficking, and RNA packaging. The regulatory HIV-1 protein Rev is essential for viral replication and belongs to the ARM family of RNA-binding proteins. During the early stages of the HIV-1 life cycle, incompletely spliced and full-length viral mRNAs are very inefficiently recognized by the splicing machinery of the host cell and are subject to degradation in the cell nucleus. These transcripts harbor the Rev Response Element (RRE), which orchestrates the interaction with the Rev ARM and the successive Rev-dependent mRNA export pathway. Based on established criteria for predicting intrinsic disorder, such as hydropathy, combined with significant net charge, the very basic primary sequences of ARMs are expected to adopt coil-like structures. Thus, we initiated this study to investigate the conformational changes of the Rev ARM associated with RNA binding. We used multidimensional NMR and circular dichroism spectroscopy to monitor the observed structural transitions, and described the conformational landscapes using statistical ensemble and molecular-dynamics simulations. The combined spectroscopic and simulated results imply that the Rev ARM is intrinsically disordered not only as an isolated peptide but also when it is embedded into an oligomerization-deficient Rev mutant. RRE recognition triggers a crucial coil-to-helix transition employing an induced-fit mechanism.
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- Fabio Casu
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
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Liu WT, Lamsa A, Wong WR, Boudreau PD, Kersten R, Peng Y, Moree WJ, Duggan BM, Moore BS, Gerwick WH, Linington RG, Pogliano K, Dorrestein PC. MS/MS-based networking and peptidogenomics guided genome mining revealed the stenothricin gene cluster in Streptomyces roseosporus. J Antibiot (Tokyo) 2013; 67:99-104. [PMID: 24149839 DOI: 10.1038/ja.2013.99] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2013] [Revised: 07/24/2013] [Accepted: 07/27/2013] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
Abstract
Most (75%) of the anti-infectives that save countless lives and enormously improve quality of life originate from microbes found in nature. Herein, we described a global visualization of the detectable molecules produced from a single microorganism, which we define as the 'molecular network' of that organism, followed by studies to characterize the cellular effects of antibacterial molecules. We demonstrate that Streptomyces roseosporus produces at least four non-ribosomal peptide synthetase-derived molecular families and their gene subnetworks (daptomycin, arylomycin, napsamycin and stenothricin) were identified with different modes of action. A number of previously unreported analogs involving truncation, glycosylation, hydrolysis and biosynthetic intermediates and/or shunt products were also captured and visualized by creation of a map through MS/MS networking. The diversity of antibacterial compounds produced by S. roseosporus highlights the importance of developing new approaches to characterize the molecular capacity of an organism in a more global manner. This allows one to more deeply interrogate the biosynthetic capacities of microorganisms with the goal to streamline the discovery pipeline for biotechnological applications in agriculture and medicine. This is a contribution to a special issue to honor Chris Walsh's amazing career.
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- Wei-Ting Liu
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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- Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- 1] Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA [2] Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA [3] Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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Duggan BM, Roca A, Zhang YM. ¹H, ¹³C and ¹⁵N assignments of the holo-acyl carrier protein of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Biomol NMR Assign 2013; 7:225-228. [PMID: 22843382 PMCID: PMC3759651 DOI: 10.1007/s12104-012-9415-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2012] [Accepted: 07/17/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Acyl carrier proteins (ACPs) are a group of highly conserved and abundant proteins in bacteria. ACPs play a central role as the acyl group carriers in bacterial fatty acid biosynthesis, providing building blocks for membrane biogenesis and the production of secondary metabolites. In the versatile human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa, three ACP homologs have been identified. One homolog, AcpP, exhibits the strongest sequence homology to the canonical Escherichia coli ACP. Here we report the (1)H, (13)C and (15)N assignments of the holo-AcpP of P. aeruginosa.
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- Brendan M. Duggan
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
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Boehr DD, Schnell JR, McElheny D, Bae SH, Duggan BM, Benkovic SJ, Dyson HJ, Wright PE. A distal mutation perturbs dynamic amino acid networks in dihydrofolate reductase. Biochemistry 2013; 52:4605-19. [PMID: 23758161 DOI: 10.1021/bi400563c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
Abstract
Correlated networks of amino acids have been proposed to play a fundamental role in allostery and enzyme catalysis. These networks of amino acids can be traced from surface-exposed residues all the way into the active site, and disruption of these networks can decrease enzyme activity. Substitution of the distal Gly121 residue in Escherichia coli dihydrofolate reductase results in an up to 200-fold decrease in the hydride transfer rate despite the fact that the residue is located 15 Å from the active-site center. In this study, nuclear magnetic resonance relaxation experiments are used to demonstrate that dynamics on the picosecond to nanosecond and microsecond to millisecond time scales are changed significantly in the G121V mutant of dihydrofolate reductase. In particular, picosecond to nanosecond time scale dynamics are decreased in the FG loop (containing the mutated residue at position 121) and the neighboring active-site loop (the Met20 loop) in the mutant compared to those of the wild-type enzyme, suggesting that these loops are dynamically coupled. Changes in methyl order parameters reveal a pathway by which dynamic perturbations can be propagated more than 25 Å across the protein from the site of mutation. All of the enzyme complexes, including the model Michaelis complex with folate and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate bound, assume an occluded ground-state conformation, and we do not observe sampling of a higher-energy closed conformation by (15)N R2 relaxation dispersion experiments. This is highly significant, because it is only in the closed conformation that the cofactor and substrate reactive centers are positioned for reaction. The mutation also impairs microsecond to millisecond time scale fluctuations that have been implicated in the release of product from the wild-type enzyme. Our results are consistent with an important role for Gly121 in controlling protein dynamics critical for enzyme function and further validate the dynamic energy landscape hypothesis of enzyme catalysis.
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- David D Boehr
- Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology and the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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- Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology and the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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- Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology and the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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- Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology and the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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- Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology and the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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- The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Chemistry, 414 Wartik Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology and the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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- Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology and the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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Kersten RD, Lane AL, Nett M, Richter TKS, Duggan BM, Dorrestein PC, Moore BS. Bioactivity-guided genome mining reveals the lomaiviticin biosynthetic gene cluster in Salinispora tropica. Chembiochem 2013; 14:955-62. [PMID: 23649992 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201300147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2013] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
Abstract
The use of genome sequences has become routine in guiding the discovery and identification of microbial natural products and their biosynthetic pathways. In silico prediction of molecular features, such as metabolic building blocks, physico-chemical properties or biological functions, from orphan gene clusters has opened up the characterization of many new chemo- and genotypes in genome mining approaches. Here, we guided our genome mining of two predicted enediyne pathways in Salinispora tropica CNB-440 by a DNA interference bioassay to isolate DNA-targeting enediyne polyketides. An organic extract of S. tropica showed DNA-interference activity that surprisingly was not abolished in genetic mutants of the targeted enediyne pathways, ST_pks1 and spo. Instead we showed that the product of the orphan type II polyketide synthase pathway, ST_pks2, is solely responsible for the DNA-interfering activity of the parent strain. Subsequent comparative metabolic profiling revealed the lomaiviticins, glycosylated diazofluorene polyketides, as the ST_pks2 products. This study marks the first report of the 59 open reading frame lomaiviticin gene cluster (lom) and supports the biochemical logic of their dimeric construction through a pathway related to the kinamycin monomer.
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- Roland D Kersten
- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0204, USA
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Watrous JD, Phelan VV, Hsu CC, Moree WJ, Duggan BM, Alexandrov T, Dorrestein PC. Microbial metabolic exchange in 3D. ISME J 2013; 7:770-80. [PMID: 23283018 PMCID: PMC3603389 DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2012.155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2012] [Revised: 10/12/2012] [Accepted: 10/26/2012] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
Abstract
Mono- and multispecies microbial populations alter the chemistry of their surrounding environments during colony development thereby influencing multicellular behavior and interspecies interactions of neighboring microbes. Here we present a methodology that enables the creation of three-dimensional (3D) models of a microbial chemotype that can be correlated to the colony phenotype through multimodal imaging analysis. These models are generated by performing matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) imaging mass spectrometry (IMS) on serial cross-sections of microbial colonies grown on 8 mm deep agar, registering data sets of each serial section in MATLAB to create a model, and then superimposing the model with a photograph of the colonies themselves. As proof-of-principle, 3D models were used to visualize metabolic exchange during microbial interactions between Bacillus subtilis and Streptomyces coelicolor, as well as, Candida albicans and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The resulting models were able to capture the depth profile of secreted metabolites within the agar medium and revealed properties of certain mass signals that were previously not observable using two-dimensional MALDI-TOF IMS. Most significantly, the 3D models were capable of mapping previously unobserved chemical distributions within the array of sub-surface hyphae of C. albicans and how this chemistry is altered by the presence of P. aeruginosa, an opportunistic pathogen known to alter virulence of C. albicans. It was determined that the presence of C. albicans triggered increased rhamnolipid production by P. aeruginosa, which in turn was capable of inhibiting embedded hyphal growth produced beneath the C. albicans colony at ambient temperature.
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- Jeramie D Watrous
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Center for Industrial Mathematics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Department of Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, USA
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Halsey LG, Watkins DAR, Duggan BM. The energy expenditure of stair climbing one step and two steps at a time: estimations from measures of heart rate. PLoS One 2012; 7:e51213. [PMID: 23251455 PMCID: PMC3520986 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2012] [Accepted: 10/30/2012] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Stairway climbing provides a ubiquitous and inconspicuous method of burning calories. While typically two strategies are employed for climbing stairs, climbing one stair step per stride or two steps per stride, research to date has not clarified if there are any differences in energy expenditure between them. Fourteen participants took part in two stair climbing trials whereby measures of heart rate were used to estimate energy expenditure during stairway ascent at speeds chosen by the participants. The relationship between rate of oxygen consumption ([Formula: see text]) and heart rate was calibrated for each participant using an inclined treadmill. The trials involved climbing up and down a 14.05 m high stairway, either ascending one step per stride or ascending two stair steps per stride. Single-step climbing used 8.5±0.1 kcal min(-1), whereas double step climbing used 9.2±0.1 kcal min(-1). These estimations are similar to equivalent measures in all previous studies, which have all directly measured [Formula: see text] The present study findings indicate that (1) treadmill-calibrated heart rate recordings can be used as a valid alternative to respirometry to ascertain rate of energy expenditure during stair climbing; (2) two step climbing invokes a higher rate of energy expenditure; however, one step climbing is energetically more expensive in total over the entirety of a stairway. Therefore to expend the maximum number of calories when climbing a set of stairs the single-step strategy is better.
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- Lewis G Halsey
- Department of Life Sciences, University of Roehampton, London, United Kingdom.
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Parnham S, Gaines WA, Duggan BM, Marcotte WR, Hennig M. NMR assignments of the N-terminal domain of Nephila clavipes spidroin 1. Biomol NMR Assign 2011; 5:131-133. [PMID: 21152998 PMCID: PMC3090696 DOI: 10.1007/s12104-010-9284-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2010] [Accepted: 11/20/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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The building blocks of spider dragline silk are two fibrous proteins secreted from the major ampullate gland named spidroins 1 and 2 (MaSp1, MaSp2). These proteins consist of a large central domain composed of approximately 100 tandem copies of a 35-40 amino acid repeat sequence. Non-repetitive N and C-terminal domains, of which the C-terminal domain has been implicated to transition from soluble and insoluble states during spinning, flank the repetitive core. The N-terminal domain until recently has been largely unknown due to difficulties in cloning and expression. Here, we report nearly complete assignment for all (1)H, (13)C, and (15)N resonances in the 14 kDa N-terminal domain of major ampullate spidroin 1 (MaSp1-N) of the golden orb-web spider Nephila clavipes.
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- Stuart Parnham
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, 173 Ashley Ave., BSB 535D, PO Box 250509, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Biochemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, 173 Ashley Ave., BSB 535D, PO Box 250509, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Biochemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, 173 Ashley Ave., BSB 535D, PO Box 250509, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
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Microarrays have been used extensively to identify differential gene expression at the level of transcriptional control in oncogenesis. However, increasing evidence indicates that changes in translational control are critical to oncogenic transformation. This study identifies mRNA transcripts that are differentially regulated, primarily at the level of translation, in the immortalized human embryonic prostate epithelial cell line 267B1 and the v-Ki-ras-transformed counterpart by comparing total mRNA to polysome-bound mRNA by using Affymetrix oligonucleotide microarrays. Among the transcripts that were identified were those encoding proteins involved in DNA replication, cell cycle control, cell-to-cell interactions, electron transport, G protein signaling, and translation. Many of these proteins are known to contribute to oncogenesis or have the potential to contribute to oncogenesis. Differential expression of RNA-binding proteins and the presence of highly conserved motifs in the 5' and 3' untranslated regions of the mRNAs are consistent with multiple pathways and mechanisms governing the changes in translational control. Although Alu sequences were found to be associated with increased translation in transformed cells, an evolutionarily conserved motif was identified in the 3' untranslated regions of ephrinB1, calreticulin, integrin alpha3, and mucin3B that was associated with decreased polysome association in 267B1/Ki-ras.
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- Jean Spence
- Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, San Diego, CA, USA.
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Viles JH, Duggan BM, Zaborowski E, Schwarzinger S, Huntley JJ, Kroon GJ, Dyson HJ, Wright PE. Potential bias in NMR relaxation data introduced by peak intensity analysis and curve fitting methods. J Biomol NMR 2001; 21:1-9. [PMID: 11693564 DOI: 10.1023/a:1011966718826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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We present an evaluation of the accuracy and precision of relaxation rates calculated using a variety of methods, applied to data sets obtained for several very different protein systems. We show that common methods of data evaluation, such as the determination of peak heights and peak volumes, may be subject to bias, giving incorrect values for quantities such as R1 and R2. For example, one common method of peak-height determination, using a search routine to obtain the peak-height maximum in successive spectra, may be a source of significant systematic error in the relaxation rate. The alternative use of peak volumes or of a fixed coordinate position for the peak height in successive spectra gives more accurate results, particularly in cases where the signal/noise is low, but these methods have inherent problems of their own. For example, volumes are difficult to quantitate for overlapped peaks. We show that with any method of sampling the peak intensity, the choice of a 2- or 3-parameter equation to fit the exponential relaxation decay curves can dramatically affect both the accuracy and precision of the calculated relaxation rates. In general, a 2-parameter fit of relaxation decay curves is preferable. However, for very low intensity peaks a 3 parameter fit may be more appropriate.
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- J H Viles
- Department of Molecular Biology and Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 90237, USA
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Duggan BM, Legge GB, Dyson HJ, Wright PE. SANE (Structure Assisted NOE Evaluation): an automated model-based approach for NOE assignment. J Biomol NMR 2001; 19:321-329. [PMID: 11370778 DOI: 10.1023/a:1011227824104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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A reliable automated approach for assignment of NOESY spectra would allow more rapid determination of protein structures by NMR. In this paper we describe a semi-automated procedure for complete NOESY assignment (SANE, Structure Assisted NOE Evaluation), coupled to an iterative procedure for NMR structure determination where the user is directly involved. Our method is similar to ARIA [Nilges et al. (1997) J. Mol. Biol., 269, 408-422], but is compatible with the molecular dynamics suites AMBER and DYANA. The method is ideal for systems where an initial model or crystal structure is available, but has also been used successfully for ab initio structure determination. Use of this semi-automated iterative approach assists in the identification of errors in the NOE assignments to short-cut the path to an NMR solution structure.
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- B M Duggan
- Department of Molecular Biology MB2 and Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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Duggan BM, Dyson HJ, Wright PE. Inherent flexibility in a potent inhibitor of blood coagulation, recombinant nematode anticoagulant protein c2. Eur J Biochem 1999; 265:539-48. [PMID: 10504384 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00781.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Nematode anticoagulant proteins (NAPs) from the hematophagous nematode Ancylostoma caninum inhibit blood coagulation with picomolar inhibition constants, and have been targeted as novel pharmaceutical agents. NAP5 and NAP6 inhibit factor Xa by binding to its active site, whereas NAPc2 binds to factor Xa at a different, as yet unidentified, site and the resultant binary complex inhibits the tissue factor-factor VIIa complex. We have undertaken NMR studies of NAPc2, including the calculation of a solution structure, and found that the protein is folded, with five disulfide bonds, but is extremely flexible, especially in the acidic loop. The Halpha secondary shifts and 3JHNHalpha coupling constants indicate the presence of some beta structure and a short helix, but the intervening loops are highly conformationally heterogeneous. Heteronuclear NOE measurements showed the presence of large amplitude motions on a subnanosecond timescale at the N-terminus and C-terminus and in the substrate-binding loop, indicating that the conformational heterogeneity observed in the NMR structures is due to flexibility of the polypeptide chain in these regions. Flexibility may well be an important factor in the physiological function of NAPc2, because it must interact with other proteins in the inhibition of blood coagulation. We suggest that this inhibitor is likely to become structured on binding to factor Xa, because the inhibition of the tissue factor-factor VIIa complex requires both NAPc2 and factor Xa.
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- B M Duggan
- Department of Molecular Biology and Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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Duggan BM, Craik DJ. Conformational dynamics of thyroid hormones by variable temperature nuclear magnetic resonance: the role of side chain rotations and cisoid/transoid interconversions. J Med Chem 1997; 40:2259-65. [PMID: 9216845 DOI: 10.1021/jm9606610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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1H NMR spectra of the thyroid hormone thyroxine recorded at low temperature and high field show splitting into two peaks of the resonance due to the H2,6 protons of the inner (tyrosyl) ring. A single resonance is observed in 600 MHz spectra at temperatures above 185 K. An analysis of the line shape as a function of temperature shows that the coalescence phenomenon is due to an exchange process with a barrier of 37 kJ mol-1. This is identical to the barrier for coalescence of the H2',6' protons of the outer (phenolic) ring reported previously for the thyroid hormones and their analogues. It is proposed that the separate peaks at low temperature are due to resonances for H2,6 in cisoid and transoid conformers which are populated in approximately equal populations. These two peaks are averaged resonances for the individual H2 and H6 protons. Conversion of cisoid to transoid forms can occur via rotation of either the alanyl side chain or the outer ring, from one face of the inner ring to the other. It is proposed that the latter process is the one responsible for the observed coalescence phenomenon. The barrier to rotation of the alanyl side chain is > or = 37 kJ mol-1, which is significantly larger than has previously been reported for Csp2-Csp3 bonds in other Ph-CH2-X systems. The recent crystal structure of a hormone agonist bound to the ligand-binding domain of the rat thyroid hormone receptor (Wagner et al. Nature 1995, 378, 690-697) shows the transoid form to be the bound conformation. The significant energy barrier to cisoid/transoid interconversion determined in the current study combined with the tight fit of the hormone to its receptor suggests that interconversion between the forms cannot occur at the receptor site but that selection for the preferred bound form occurs from the 50% population of the transoid form in solution.
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- B M Duggan
- School of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Victorian College of Pharmacy, Monash University, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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Duggan BM, Craik DJ. 1H and 13C NMR relaxation studies of molecular dynamics of the thyroid hormones thyroxine, 3,5,3'-triiodothyronine, and 3,5-diiodothyronine. J Med Chem 1996; 39:4007-16. [PMID: 8831766 DOI: 10.1021/jm960231+] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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1H and 13C NMR spin-lattice relaxation times and 13C{1H} nuclear Overhauser enhancement factors have been measured for the thyroid hormones thyroxine, 3,5,3'-triiodothyronine, and 3,5-diiodothyronine, with the aim of determining the internal molecular dynamics in these molecules. Spin-lattice relaxation times of protons on the two aromatic rings of these hormones show remarkable differences, with values for the hydroxyl-bearing ring being a factor of 4-12 times larger than those for the alanyl-bearing ring. This difference is not mirrored in the 13C relaxation times, which are identical within experimental error for the two rings. The 13C data show that the mobility of the two rings is similar, and therefore the difference in proton spin-lattice relaxation times arises because the protons of the alanyl-bearing ring are efficiently relaxed by interactions with neighboring protons on the side chain. Quantitative analysis of the 13C relaxation data shows that there must be a significant degree of internal flexibility in the thyroid hormone molecules. The NMR data suggest that in methanol the molecules tumble with an overall correlation time of approximately 0.35 ns, but that rapid internal motion (in the form of jumps between two stable conformations) occurs on a 30-fold faster time scale. When combined with previous variable temperature NMR studies that show interconversion between proximal and distal forms of the outer ring on the microsecond time scale, the results provide a complete description of the conformations and both fast and slow internal motions in the thyroid hormones. The findings suggest that modeling studies of thyroid hormone interactions with receptor proteins should take into account the possibility that these internal motions are present. In effect, the thyroid hormones may likely populate a larger range of conformations in the bound state than might be inferred from just the lowest energy forms seen in the crystal and solution states.
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- B M Duggan
- School of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Victorian College of Pharmacy, Monash University, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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Dyke TR, Duggan BM, Pennington MW, Byrnes ME, Kem WR, Norton RS. Synthesis and structural characterisation of analogues of the potassium channel blocker charybdotoxin. Biochim Biophys Acta 1996; 1292:31-8. [PMID: 8547346 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4838(95)00182-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Charybdotoxin is a 37-residue polypeptide toxin from scorpion venom, which acts by blocking voltage-gated and Ca(2+)-activated K+ channels. We have synthesized charybdotoxin and three mono-substituted analogues using an Fmoc-tBu protocol. The Phe-2 --> Tyr analogues was chosen to introduce a site for Tyr iodination which was distinct from the K+ channel binding surface, while the Glu-12 --> Gln and Arg-19 --> His analogues were studied to probe the roles of charged residues at these positions in the structure and activity of the toxin. The synthetic native molecule was equipped with natural toxin in inhibiting the human erythrocyte Ca(2+)-dependent K+ channel. The affinities of all three analogues for the erythrocyte K+ channel were slightly reduced, with the Arg-19 --> His analogue showing the greatest increase in IC50 (2.30-fold). Two-dimensional 1H-NMR studies of these analogues showed that the Glu-12 to Gln substitution, which appeared to destabilise the N-terminal half of the alpha-helix, possibly due to the weakening of an N-terminal helix capping interaction which is apparent from our NMR data. His-21 has a pKa more than one unit below the value for a non-interacting histidine. Possible reasons for this are that the imidazolium side chain is partly buried and is located near positively charged moieties. Thus, His-21 would be neutral at physiological pH, where charybdotoxin binds to the potassium channel.
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- T R Dyke
- NMR Laboratory, Biomolecular Research Institute, Parkville, Vic. Australia
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An investigation has been carried out into the Schlack-Kumpf reaction, i.e., the reaction of amino acids with a mixture of acetic anhydride, acetic acid and sodium thiocyanate (occasionally ammonium thiocyanate was used). Particular emphasis was placed on the reactions with amino acids containing sensitive or functional side chains, i.e., serine, threonine , arginine , proline , lysine, histidine , cysteine , and aspartic and glutamic acids. The reaction of serine, and of certain of its O- and N-substituted derivatives, takes an unusual course to give an acetylated thiohydantoin derivative of cysteine. Correspondingly, threonine gives an acetylated thiohydantoin derivative of β- methylcysteine. Similar reactions occurred with the 3-phenylthiohydantoin derivatives of serine and of threonine to give acetylated thiohydantoin derivatives of cysteine and of β-methylcysteine respectively.
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Casagranda F, Duggan BM, Kirkpatrick A, Laslett RL, Wilshire JFK. Studies in Thiohydantoin Chemistry. II. C-Terminal Sequencing of Peptides. Aust J Chem 1996. [DOI: 10.1071/ch9960551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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An investigation has been carried out into the thiocyanate degradation (AcOH/Ac2O/HSCN) procedure as it relates to the C-terminal sequencing of peptides, particular emphasis being placed on the sequencing of amino acid residues containing sensitive or functional side chains. Attempted C-terminal sequencing of several serine- and threonine -containing peptides stopped at these particular residues, and did not proceed further. It is concluded that sequencing of most of the common amino acids is achievable but that significant problems will have to be overcome before routine sequencing of proline , serine, threonine, arginine , and, in particular, aspartic and glutamic acids can be claimed. The action of base on the thiohydantoin derivatives of N,S- diacetylcysteine and N,S- diacetyl-β-methylcysteine causes β-elimination of thioacetic S-acid to give the corresponding olefinic thiohydantoins.
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The 27 amino acid residue polypeptide omega-conotoxin GVIA, from venom of the cone shell Conus geographus, blocks neuronal voltage-activated calcium channels at picomolar concentrations. The three-dimensional structure in aqueous solution of synthetic omega-conotoxin has been determined from two-dimensional 1H n.m.r. data recorded at 600 MHz. Structural constraints consisting of interproton distances inferred from NOEs and dihedral angles from spin-spin coupling constants were used as input for distance geometry calculations with the program DSPACE. The structures were then refined using back-calculation of NOESY spectra. The family of structures obtained in this way is well defined by the n.m.r. data, the best 12 structures having pairwise root-mean-square differences of 0.68 (+/- 0.15) A over the backbone heavy atoms (N, C alpha and C) and 1.15 (+/- 0.17) A over all heavy-atoms. The molecule adopts a compact structure consisting of a small, triple-stranded, anti-parallel beta-sheet and several reverse turns. All three tyrosine residues are located on the molecular surface, which is noteworthy for its abundance of side-chain hydroxyl groups. There is no negatively charged group in conotoxin, but the five positively charged groups are distributed in three small patches on the surface, one of which, made up of the ammonium moieties of the N terminus and Lys2, may contribute to the receptor-binding surface of the molecule. An isomer of conotoxin with the same amino acid sequence, but different disulfide pairings, has also been investigated. Its structure is less well ordered than that of native conotoxin and it shows significant heterogeneity, probably as a result of cis-trans isomerism preceding hydroxyproline residues.
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- P K Pallaghy
- NMR Laboratory, Biomolecular Research Institute, Parkville, Australia
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