The Marinopyrroles, Antibiotics of an Unprecedented Structure Class from a Marine Streptomyces sp.

Chambers C. Hughes, Alejandra Prieto-Davo, Paul R. Jensen, and William Fenical*
Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of CaliforniaSan Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0204
Org. Lett., 2008, 10 (4), pp 629–631
DOI: 10.1021/ol702952n
Publication Date (Web): January 19, 2008
Copyright © 2008 American Chemical Society
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Cultivation of an obligate marine Streptomyces strain has furnished the marinopyrroles A and B, densely halogenated, axially chiral metabolites that contain an uncommon bispyrrole structure. X-ray analysis of marinopyrrole B showed that the natural product exists as an atropo-enantiomer with the M-configuration. Though configurationally stable at room temperature, M-(−)-marinopyrrole A can be racemized at elevated temperatures to yield the non-natural P-(+)-atropo-enantiomer. The marinopyrroles possess potent antibiotic activities against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

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  • Published In Issue February 21, 2008
  • Received December 6, 2007

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