Conformations of ten-membered carbocyclic rings in zeylanine and zeylanane as determined by application of nuclear overhauser effects

1968 ◽  
pp. 943 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuo Tori ◽  
Masako Ohtsuru ◽  
Isao Horibe ◽  
Ken'ichi Takeda
1989 ◽  
Vol 259 (2) ◽  
pp. 433-441 ◽  
Author(s):  
M S Searle ◽  
J G Hall ◽  
W A Denny ◽  
L P Wakelin

1H- and 31P-n.m.r. spectroscopy were used to characterize the solution structure of the 1:1 complex formed between the antitumour antibiotic luzopeptin and the self-complementary hexanucleotide d(5'-GCATGC)2. Eighteen nuclear Overhauser effects between antibiotic and nucleotide protons, together with ring-current-induced perturbations to base-pair and quinoline 1H resonances, define the position and orientation of the bound drug molecule. Luzopeptin binds in the minor groove of the DNA with full retention of dyad symmetry, its quinoline chromophores intercalating at the 5'-CpA and 5'-TpG steps and its depsipeptide ring spanning the central two A.T base-pairs. The chromophores stack principally on the adenine base with their carbocyclic rings pointing towards the deoxyribose of the cytosine. There is no evidence for Hoogsteen base-pairing in the complex, all glycosidic bond angles and sugar puckers being typical of B-DNA as found for the free hexanucleotide. The ‘breathing’ motions of the A.T and internal G.C base-pairs are substantially slowed in the complex compared with the free DNA, and the observation that two phosphate resonances are shifted downfield by at least 0.5 p.p.m. in the 31P-n.m.r. spectrum of the complex suggests pronounced local helix unwinding at the intercalation sites. The data are consistent with a model of the complex in which luzopeptin bisintercalates with its depsipeptide essentially in the conformation found in the crystal of the free antibiotic [Arnold & Clardy (1981) J. Am. Chem. Soc. 103, 1243-1244]. We postulate only one conformational change within the peptide ring, which involves rotation of the pyridazine-glycine amide group linkage by 90 degrees towards the DNA surface. This manoeuvre breaks the glycine-to-glycine transannular hydrogen bonds and enables the glycine NH groups to bond to the thymine O-2 atoms of the sandwiched A.T base-pairs. It also shortens the major axis of the depsipeptide so that the interchromophore distance is more suitable for spanning two base-pairs. The model further implies that the carboxy and hydroxy groups of the L-beta-hydroxyvaline residue are appropriately positioned for hydrogen-bonding to the 2-amino group of guanine and the O-2 atom of cytosine of the adjacent G.C base-pair.


1996 ◽  
Vol 318 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmitri MIKHAILOV ◽  
Kevin H. MAYO ◽  
Ioncho R. VLAHOV ◽  
Toshihiko TOIDA ◽  
Azra PERVIN ◽  
...  

The solution conformation of the homogeneous, heparin-derived tetrasaccharide ΔUA2S(1 → 4)-α-d-GlcNpS6S(1 → 4)-α-l-IdoAp2S(1 → 4)-α-d-GlcNpS6S (residues A, B, C and D respectively, where IdoA is iduronic acid) has been investigated by using 1H- and 13C-NMR. Ring conformations have been defined by J-coupling constants and inter-proton nuclear Overhauser effects (NOEs), and the orientation of one ring with respect to the other has been defined by inter-ring NOEs. NOE-based conformational modelling has been done by using the iterative relaxation matrix approach (IRMA), restrained molecular dynamics simulations and energy minimization to refine structures and to distinguish between minor structural differences and equilibria between various ring forms. Both glucosamine residues B and D are in the 4C1 chair conformation. The 6-O-sulphate group is oriented in the gauche–trans configuration in the D ring, whereas in the B ring the gauche–gauche rotomer predominates. Uronate (A) and iduronate (C) residues are mostly represented by 1H2 and 2S0 twisted boat forms, respectively, with small deviations in expected coupling constants and NOEs suggesting minor contributions from other A and C ring conformations.


2010 ◽  
Vol 109 (10) ◽  
pp. 509-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanislaw Boryczka ◽  
Andrzej Maślankiewicz ◽  
Miroslaw Wyszomirski ◽  
Teresa Borowiak ◽  
Maciej Kubicki

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (20) ◽  
pp. 7626
Author(s):  
Victor Stroylov ◽  
Maria Panova ◽  
Philip Toukach

Six empirical force fields were tested for applicability to calculations for automated carbohydrate database filling. They were probed on eleven disaccharide molecules containing representative structural features from widespread classes of carbohydrates. The accuracy of each method was queried by predictions of nuclear Overhauser effects (NOEs) from conformational ensembles obtained from 50 to 100 ns molecular dynamics (MD) trajectories and their comparison to the published experimental data. Using various ranking schemes, it was concluded that explicit solvent MM3 MD yielded non-inferior NOE accuracy with newer GLYCAM-06, and ultimately PBE0-D3/def2-TZVP (Triple-Zeta Valence Polarized) Density Functional Theory (DFT) simulations. For seven of eleven molecules, at least one empirical force field with explicit solvent outperformed DFT in NOE prediction. The aggregate of characteristics (accuracy, speed, and compatibility) made MM3 dynamics with explicit solvent at 300 K the most favorable method for bulk generation of disaccharide conformation maps for massive database filling.


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