title: Peptide siderophores.
abstract: Siderophores are low molecular weight iron chelators, produced by virtually all bacteria, fungi and some plants. They serve to deliver the essential element iron, barely soluble under aerobic conditions, into microbial cells. Siderophores are therefore important secondary metabolites which are very often based on amino acids and their derivatives. Biosynthesis, transport, regulation and chemical synthesis of natural siderophores and their analogues is of considerable interest for the protein and peptide chemist. This review gives an overview of the structural classes of peptidic siderophores, along with data on their biosynthesis. On a number of representative examples, strategies and schemes of their chemical synthesis are described.
authors.affiliation: Universität Tübingen, Institut für Organische Chemie, Germany.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Drechsel
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Jung
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000596:Amino Acids / Q000737:chemistry; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010455:Peptides / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry*; D011487:Protein Conformation; D017262:Siderophores / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D010455:Peptides; D017262:Siderophores