Aestuaramides, a Natural Library of Cyanobactin Cyclic
Peptides Resulting from Isoprene-Derived Claisen Rearrangements
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Abstract
We
report 12 cyanobactin cyclic peptides, the aestuaramides, from
the cultivated cyanobacterium <i>Lyngbya aestuarii</i>.
We show that aestuaramides are synthesized enzymatically as reverse <i>O</i>-prenylated tyrosine ethers that subsequently undergo a
Claisen rearrangement to produce forward <i>C</i>-prenylated
tyrosine. These results reveal that a nonenzymatic Claisen rearrangement
dictates isoprene regiochemistry in a natural system. They also reveal
one of the mechanisms that organisms use to generate structurally
diverse compound libraries starting from simple ribosomal peptide
pathways (RiPPs)