Neocarzinostatin chromophore: Presence of a cyclic carbonate subunit and its modification in the structure of other biologically active forms |
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Authors: | Mary A. Napier Irving H. Goldberg Otto D. Hensens Ray S. Dewey Jerrold M. Liesch Georg Albers-Schönberg |
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Affiliation: | Department of Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115 USA;Merck, Sharp and Dohme Research Laboratories, Rahway, NJ 07065 USA |
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Abstract: | On the basis of spectroscopic evidence, opening of a five-membered cyclic carbonate ring (1,3-dioxolan-2-one) in the C15-subunit of the previously determined partial structure (Fig. 1) of the major neocarzinostatin chromophore (NCS-Chrom ), is proposed to account for its base-catalyzed methanolysis to NCS-Chrom . NCS-Chrom , apparently an authentic natural product present as a minor component in all preparations of NCS studied, was found to be formally equivalent to the hydrolysis/decarboxylation product of the cyclic carbonate functionality in NCS-Chrom . The mercaptan-dependent DNA strand-scission activity, equivalent for NCS-Chrom , and , is independent of the integrity of the cyclic carbonate ring system and implicates a secondary site in the C15-substructure for mercaptan activation. |
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Keywords: | NCS HPLC high pressure liquid chromatography TMS NMR nuclear magnetic resonance δppm chemical shift in parts per million J(Hz) coupling constants in Hertz d doublet m multiplet FT-IR Fourier transform infrared HRMS high resolution mass spectra |
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