title: Structure of the Bacillus subtilis peptide antibiotic subtilosin A determined by 1H-NMR and matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry.
abstract: Subtilosin A produced by Bacillus subtilis is a macrocyclic peptide antibiotic which comprises 35 amino acids. Its molecular mass (3399.7 Da), determined by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry, and chemical properties gave experimental support for unusual intramolecular linkages. The three-dimensional fold of native subtilosin in dimethylsulfoxide was determined from two-dimensional 1H-NMR spectra recorded at 600 MHz. Based on the backbone conformation, a structure for subtilosin A is presented which is characterized by three inter-residue bridges where two cysteines are linked with two phenylalanine residues, respectively, and a third cysteine is bound to a threonine residue.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Organische Chemie.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Marx
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Stein
authors.forename: K D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Entian
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Glaser
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000737:chemistry*; D001412:Bacillus subtilis / Q000737:chemistry*; D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D001430:Bacteriocins; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D008970:Molecular Weight; D019906:Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular / Q000379:methods*; D010455:Peptides; D010456:Peptides, Cyclic; D011487:Protein Conformation; D019032:Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D001430:Bacteriocins; D010455:Peptides; D010456:Peptides, Cyclic; C047828:sboA protein, Bacillus subtilis