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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Cyclodepsipeptides from a Kenyan marine cyanobacterium

Dzeha, Thomas Mwambire January 2003 (has links)
An examination of an organic extract of the cyanobacterium Lyngbya majuscula collected from Wasini Island off the southern Kenyan coast led to the isolation of the known cyclodepsipeptide antanapeptin A (7), recently isolated from a Madagascan collection of L. majuscula, and a new bioactive cyclodepsipeptide, homodolastatin 16 (42). Although L. majuscula is a common, pantropical cyanobacterium this study represents the first investigation of the natural product chemistry of a Kenyan population of L. majuscula. The structures of the two cyclodepsipeptides were determined from 2D NMR and mass spectrometry data. The L- stereochemistry of the proline, valine, and N-methylphenylalanine amino acids in 7 and the L – proline configuration in 42, was confirmed by Marfey’s HPLC method. Chiral GC was used to determine the absolute stereochemistry of the hydroxyisovaleric acid moiety in 7 and 42, the lactate residue in 42 and tentatively propose an L-stereochemistry for the Nmethylisoleucine amino acid in 42. Homodolastatin 16, a higher homologue of the potential anti-cancer agent, dolastatin 16, exhibited moderate activity against two oesophageal cancer cell lines.

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