Structures and Activity of New Anabaenopeptins Produced by Baltic Sea Cyanobacteria

Abstract

Anabaenopeptins, bioactive cyclic hexapeptides, were isolated by preparative reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography from an extract of Baltic Sea cyanobacterial bloom material composed of Nodularia spumigena (50%), Aphanizomenon flos-aquae (40%) and Dolichospermum spp. (10%). Five new anabaenopeptins and nine previously known anabaenopeptins were isolated, and their putative structures were determined by tandem mass spectrometry. The activity of the peptides against carboxypeptidase A and protein phosphatase 1 as well as chymotrypsin, trypsin and thrombin was tested. All anabaenopeptins inhibited carboxypeptidase A (apart from one anabaenopeptin variant) and protein phosphatase 1 with varying potency, but no inhibition against chymotrypsin, trypsin and thrombin was observed.

Keywords

• Anabaenopeptins
• nodulapeptins
• Baltic Sea
• cyanobacteria
• Nodularia spumigena
• Aphanizomenon flos-aquae
• Dolichospermum spp.
• carboxypeptidase A
• protein phosphatase 1