Pluramycin A

Pluramycin A is an antibiotic/anticancer compound that inhibits nucleic acid biosynthesis.[1] The pluramycin family of natural products are an important group of complex C-aryl glycoside antibiotics that possess the tetracyclic 4H-anthra[1,2-b]pyran-4,7,12-trione moiety A–D as an aromatic core. The D-ring is adorned with two deoxyaminosugars that are appended by C-aryl glycosidic linkages. The E-ring sugar is angolosamine, a carbohydrate that is also found in the antibiotic angolamycin. The F-ring sugar is the N,N-dimethyl derivative of vancosamine, which is the sugar found in the glycopeptide antibiotic vancomycin.

Pluramycin A

Names
IUPAC name [4-(Dimethylamino)-6-[8-[4-(dimethylamino)-5-hydroxy-6-methyloxan-2-yl]-11-hydroxy-5-methyl-2-[2-methyl-3-[(E)-prop-1-enyl]oxiran-2-yl]-4,7,12-trioxonaphtho[2,3-h]chromen-10-yl]-2,4-dimethyloxan-3-yl] acetate
Identifiers
PubChem CID	5906990
InChI InChI=1S/C43H52N2O11/c1-12-13-30-43(7,56-30)31-17-27(47)32-19(2)14-25-34(40(32)55-31)39(51)35-33(38(25)50)23(28-16-26(44(8)9)36(48)20(3)52-28)15-24(37(35)49)29-18-42(6,45(10)11)41(21(4)53-29)54-22(5)46/h12-15,17,20-21,26,28-30,36,41,48-49H,16,18H2,1-11H3/b13-12+
Properties
Chemical formula	C43H52N2O11
Molar mass	772.892 g·mol^−1
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
Infobox references

These compounds exhibit in vitro antitumor activity by DNA alkylation, where the two proximal amino sugars, D-angolosamine and N,N-dimethyl-L-vancosamine, play a key role in sequence recognition in intercalation of the tetracyclic chromophore.

References

1. Nagai, K.; Yamaki, H.; Tanaka, N.; Umezwa, H. (1967). "Inhibition by pluramycin a of nucleic acid biosynthesis". Journal of Biochemistry. 62 (3): 321–7. PMID 4869973.