Synthesis of Cortistatins A, J, K, and L
| Title: | Synthesis of Cortistatins A, J, K, and L |
| Author: |
Myers, Andrew G.; Flyer, Alec N.; Si, Chong
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| Citation: | Flyer, Alec N., Chong Si, and Andrew G. Myers. 2010. Synthesis of cortistatins A, J, K, and L. Nature Chemistry 2(10): 886-892. |
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| Abstract: | The cortistatins are a recently identified class of marine natural products characterized by an unusual steroidal skeleton and have been found to inhibit differentially the proliferation of various mammalian cells in culture by an unknown mechanism. We describe a comprehensive route for the synthesis of cortistatins from a common precursor, which in turn is assembled from two fragments of similar structural complexity. Cortistatins A and J, and for the first time, K and L, have been synthesized in parallel processes from like intermediates prepared from a single compound. With the identification of facile laboratory transformations linking intermediates in the cortistatin L synthetic series with corresponding intermediates to cortistatins A and J, we have been led to speculate that somewhat related paths might occur in nature, offering potential sequencing and chemical detail for cortistatin biosynthetic pathways. |
| Published Version: | doi:10.1038/nchem.794 |
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