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Published on: May 4, 2018
A new peptide isolated from a marine derived Streptomyces bacillaris
1Department of Biochemistry, Division of Chemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines, Blvd, Dallas, TX 75390-9038, USA.
Abstract:
A new peptide, L-O-Lac-L-Val-D-O-Hiv-D-Val (1), consisting of D-valine, L-valine, L-lactic acid, and 3-D-hydroxyisovaleric acid, was isolated from the culture of the marine sediment derived Streptomyces bacillaris. The planar structure of compound 1 was assigned by 1D, 2D NMR and mass spectroscopic analyses. Following acid and base hydrolysis, the absolute configuration of the valine residues in 1 were determined by application of the advanced Marfey's method and the absolute configurations of hydroxy acids units were determined by a HPLC method based on Mosher's reagents.
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