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Effect of the solvent on the conformation of a depsipeptide: NMR-derived solution structure of hormaomycin in DMSO from residual dipolar couplings in a novel DMSO-compatible alignment medium.

Reinscheid UM, Farjon J, Radzom M, Haberz P, Zeeck A, Blackledge M, Griesinger C

Max Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.

The macrocyclic compound hormaomycin has been investigated by NMR spectroscopy and by restrained molecular-dynamics simulations. Measurement of residual dipolar couplings induced by dissolving the depsipeptide in a polyacrylamide gel compatible with DMSO and their incorporation into the structure calculation of the title compound improved the precision of the family of structures. In DMSO the macrocyclic ring shows two beta-turns, whose positions in the sequence differ from those found in the CDCl3 solution structure and in the crystal structure obtained from hexylene glycol/H2O (50:50). The bulky side chain consisting of a 3-(2-nitrocyclopropyl)alanine and a chlorinated N-hydroxypyrrole moiety is flexible in DMSO.

Published 7 February 2006 in Chembiochem, 7(2): 287-96.
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