The ascidian Lissoclinum patella, the patellamides and copper

The ascidian species Lissoclinum patella is found, amongst other places, around Heron Island on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. L. patella has a cyanobacterial symbiont, Prochloron didemni, known to produce various cyclic peptides, including quantities of the cyclic pseudo-octapeptides, the patel...

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Main Authors: Baur, Philipp (Author) , Comba, Peter (Author) , Gahan, Lawrence (Author) , Scholz, Christian (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: 2023
In: Australian journal of chemistry
Year: 2023, Volume: 76, Issue: 1, Pages: 44-48
ISSN:1445-0038
DOI:10.1071/CH22200
Online Access:Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1071/CH22200
Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://www.publish.csiro.au/ch/CH22200
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Author Notes:Philipp Baur, Peter Comba, Lawrence R. Gahan, Christian Scholz, Philipp Baur, Peter Comba, Lawrence R. Gahan and Christian Scholz
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Summary:The ascidian species Lissoclinum patella is found, amongst other places, around Heron Island on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. L. patella has a cyanobacterial symbiont, Prochloron didemni, known to produce various cyclic peptides, including quantities of the cyclic pseudo-octapeptides, the patellamides. Patellamides are of pharmaceutical interest and have attracted the curiosity of coordination chemists because they can form quite stable mono- and di-nuclear transition metal complexes, particularly with copper(ii). For some patellamide derivatives, the binding of two CuII centres is cooperative and solution equilibria involving metal-free peptides, mono- and di-nuclear copper(ii) complexes, and various functions of these complexes have been described. These studies were also driven by the observation that the ascidians possess copper concentrations in excess of that in the seawater around Heron Island, and accumulation factors of approximately 104 have repeatedly been reported. New data presented here, based on inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES) and ICP-mass spectromety (MS) measurements, indicate that the 104 factor is overestimated and a factor >500 and up to approximately 3000 is more realistic.
Item Description:Published: 9 December 2022
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ISSN:1445-0038
DOI:10.1071/CH22200