Cyclosporin structure

Loor F, Tiberghien F, Wenandy T, Didier A, Traber R (2002) Cyclosporins Structure-activity relationships for the inhibition of the human FPR1 formylpeptide receptor. J Med Chem 45 4598-4612. 

Cyclosporin A contains II amino acids, joined in a cyclic strncture by peptide bonds. The structure is also stabilized by intramolecular hydrogen bonds. Only two of the amino acids, i.e. alanine and valine, are typical of proteins. The compound contains several A-methylated amino acid residues, together with the even less common L-a-aminobutyric acid and an Ai-methylated butenylmethylthreonine. There is one o-amino acid, i.e. o-alanine, and the assembly of the polypeptide chain is known to start from this residue. Many of the other natural cyclosporin structures differ only with respect to a single amino acid (the a-aminobutyric acid residue) or the number of amino acids that have the extra Ai-methyl group. 

Fig. 14. Structure of cyclosporin A where MeBmt = 4-(2-butenyl)-4, A-dimethylthreonine Sar = sarcosine MeLeu = A-methylleucine ...

Kallen, J., et al. Structure of human cyclophilin and its binding site for cyclosporin A determined by x-ray crystallography and NMR spectroscopy. Nature 353 276-279, 1991. 

Structural determination of macrocyclic peptides cyclosporins by mass spectrometry 97CLY2. 

Fig. 9.4 The fixation of the Ala proton in cyclosporin A via ROE-derived distance restraints as an illustrative example for NMR structure determination. (A) The amide region of the 2D ROESY spectrum of cyclosporin A at room temperature with the cross-peaks to...

The full potenhal of RDCs, however, can be seen by the incorporation of RDC data in structure calculations. Several programs hke XPLOR-NIH, DISCOVER or GROM ACS allow the incorporation of RDCs as angular or combined angular and distance dependent restraints. Several studies on sugars have been reported (see, e.g. Ref [43] and references therein) and Fig. 9.8 shows the comparison of three structural models for the backbone of the cyclic undecapeptide cyclosporin A, derived from X-ray crystahography, ROE data in CDCI3 as the solvent, and RDCs and ROEs obtained in a PDMS/CDCfi stretched gel [22]. Due to the sensitivity to... 

Fig. 9.8 Comparison of experimentally determined and back-calculated one-bond RDCs for the crystal structure (A), the ROE-derived structure (B) and the (RDC-hROE)-refined structure (C) of cyclosporin A. (D) Evaluation of the resulting models for the...

Two structurally unrelated immunosuppressant drugs, cyclosporin A and FK506, have been shown to bind to separate proteins, which have in common the ability to catalyse the interconversion (8) of the cis and trans rotamers of peptidyl-proline bonds of peptide substrates. A profound change in the conformation, and hence the shape and binding properties of the protein, may result. The mechanism of this isomerization appears, on the basis of recent work (Rosen et al., 1990 Van Duyne et al., 1993 Albers et al., 1990), to involve simple twisting about the amide bond, rather than such alternatives as conversion to a C-N single bond by addition of a nucleophile to C=0.y The proteins which catalyse the reaction may be... 

Microbial natural product chemistiy has generated a number of bioactive natural products. For instance cyclosporine A FK506 and rapamycin are used as immunosuppressants [16]. Other examples of microbial metabolites, having potential biomedical application include antihyperlipidemics, lovastatin and guggulsterone [17, 18]. The crude extracts of Mucor plumbeus exhibited acetylcholinesterase (AChE) enzyme inhibition activity. Our detailed chromatographic work on this crude extract resulted in the isolation of mucoralactone A (11), a novel steroid containing a lactone moeity incorporated in its structure. 

Selected entries from Methods in Enzymology [vol, page(s)] Acquisition of frequency-discriminated spectrum, 239, 162-166, 170 sensitivity, 239, 169-173 constant-time, 239, 23-26 doublequantum filtered, 239, 236 gradient pulse experiments, 239, 185-189 protein structural information, 239, 377-379 pulse sequence and coherence transfer pathway, 239, 148-149 paramagnetic metalloprotein, 239, 494-497 data recording, SWAT method, 239, 166-169, 172 line shapes, effects of gradient pulses, 239, 162-166 identification of protein amino acid resonances, 232, 100 cyclosporin A, 239, 240-241. 

All cyclosporines (A,B,C,. .. U,V,W), are oligopeptides containing 11 amino acids closed in a cyclic form. All of these are known amino acids except the first, which sometimes has not been isolated from natural sources. All of them are L-amino acids except for the amino acids in positions 3 and 8. Because of all of the hydrogen bonds, the structure of cyclosporine is quite rigid. Cyclosporines (A,B,C,. .. U,V,W) only differ in the second amino acid. 

Cyclosporine A itself and a number of other cyclosporines have been completely synthesized. Many stmctural analogs have also been synthesized, and a few patterns have been discovered in terms of their structure and activity. It is known that the activity of the dmg is determined by the entire cyclic stmcture, and not by its separate fragments. Likewise, it is also clear, that the structure of amino acids at position 1 is an important factor of... 

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