BQ123 sodium salt
cyclo(-D-Trp-D-Asp--Pro-D-Val-Leu-).Na+, an endothelin inhibitor



Date: Oct.2000

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Endothelin (ET) is the endogenous vasoconstriction peptide with 21 amino acid residues (Yanagisawa et al., Nature, 1988). Since its activity is linked to the regulation of blood presser, this peptide has been targeted to develop the antagonists expecting the therapeutic applications for hypertension. Two cyclic peptapeptides of BE18257A and B were isolated from Streptomyces misakiensis (Kojiri et al., J. Antibiotics, 1991), which antagonized the ET-1 induced vasoconstriction by binding to the endothelin A (ETA) receptor subtype. The more potent ET-1 antagonists, BQ123, have been surveyed from these leading peptides (Ihara et al., Life Sci., 1992). In addition to the screening of ET antagonists, the structural studies have been performed for the characterization of ET (Hewage et al., J. Pept. Sci., 1997), and the helical property of the C-terminal region was focused (Okasa et al., Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 1991; Van der Walle et al., J. Pharm. Pharmacol., 1998). Such structural feature was also confirmed in the crystal structure (Janes et al., Nature Struct. Biol.. et al. 1997). The recent NMR study suggested that the structures of these antagonists were partially similar to that of ET-1 (Coles et al., J. Med. Chem., 1993; Peishoff et al., 1995). These structural studies for both intrinsic substrates and antagonists are important to characterize the structure-specificity of ETA receptor.

                    

Fig.1. Four independent molecules.


      
Fig.2. Superimposition of four molecules.

Paper:
Unique sodium-caged structure of a potent endothelin inhibitor: crystal structure of BQ123 sodium salt, cyclo (D-Trp-D-Asp--Pro-D-Val-Leu-).Na+.
Doi,M., Ishida,T., Katsuya,Y., Mezaki,T., Sasaki,M., Terashima,A., Taniguchi,T., Hasegawa,H. and Shiono,M.
Chem.Commun., 743-744 (2000).

Caged and clustered structures of endothelin inhibitor BQ123, cyclo (-D-Trp-D-Asp--Pro-D-Val-Leu-).Na+, forming five and six coordination bonds between sodium ions and peptides.
Doi,M., Asano,A., Ishida,T., Katsuya,Y., Mezaki,Y., Sasaki,M., Terashima,A.,Taniguchi, T., HasegawaH. and Shiono,M.
Acta Cryst., D57(5), 628-634 (2001).
Summary of X-ray structure
Formula            4(C31 H41 N6 O7 Na)
Solvent(s)         8(H2 O),5.63(C3 H7 O H)
  Mr               3013.12
Crystal system     orthorhombic
Space group        P212121                   Radiation source   SPring-8*
  a (A)            25.3930(4)                Wavelength (A)     0.836
  b (A)            34.7193(3)                NREF mean.         83268
  c (A)            25.7201(4)                NREF               22865
Volume (A3)        22675.5(5)                Resolution (A)     0.80
  Z                4                         Structure sol.     LODEM
Temperature (K)    100(2)                    Refinement         SHELXL-97
Description        block                     Npara              1904
Size (mm3)         0.08x0.04x0.04              R1               0.0576
Dx (g cm-1)        1.047                       wR               0.1642
F(000)             6461                      (shift/d)max       0.656
m (mm-1)           1.350                     Drmax/min (e A3)   0.563/-0.263

*Data were measured on a synchrotron, SPring-8/BL24XU-A, with the approval of Hyogo prefecture and Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (Approval No. C99A24XU-005N).

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Sodium coordinates
  Six coordinates: peptide:Na(2:1) complexes - JPEG 60KB

  Five coordinates: Trigonal and square pyramids - JPEG 56KB

  Electron relation from indol to sodium - JPEG 52KB

Bond lengths and angles around soudium ion (SHELXL97)
 Na_1 -      Distance       Angles
 O_22      2.2635 (0.0034) 
 O_12      2.2804 (0.0036)  168.77 (0.14)
 OD1_12    2.3749 (0.0038)  101.17 (0.13)  81.82 (0.13)
 OD1_22    2.3747 (0.0037)   79.79 (0.12) 111.26 (0.13)  87.78 (0.14)
 O_24      2.4588 (0.0036)   81.70 (0.12)  87.13 (0.13)  99.93 (0.13) 161.01 (0.14)
 O_14      2.4707 (0.0035)   95.23 (0.12)  81.89 (0.12) 163.58 (0.13)  96.17 (0.13)  81.34 (0.12)
               Na_1 -        O_22          O_12          OD1_12        OD1_22        O_24

 Na_2 -      Distance       Angles
 O_32      2.2470 (0.0035) 
 O_42      2.2881 (0.0035)  175.50 (0.15)
 OD1_42    2.3377 (0.0039)  101.21 (0.14)  80.30 (0.13)
 OD1_32    2.3874 (0.0046)   79.35 (0.14) 105.11 (0.14)  81.42 (0.16)
 O_44      2.5021 (0.0035)   91.93 (0.13)  86.60 (0.12) 166.86 (0.14) 101.11 (0.15)
 O_34      2.5191 (0.0038)   82.65 (0.12)  92.90 (0.13) 101.91 (0.15) 161.99 (0.14)  79.73 (0.12)
               Na_2 -        O_32          O_42          OD1_42        OD1_32        O_44

 Na_3 -      Distance       Angles
 O_11$3    2.2773 (0.0036) 
 O1_51     2.2919 (0.0036)  109.36 (0.14)
 O1_54     2.3301 (0.0043)   88.67 (0.15)  88.67 (0.15)
 O1_52     2.3404 (0.0038)  147.22 (0.15) 102.21 (0.14) 100.89 (0.14)
 O_15$3    2.3843 (0.0039)   87.47 (0.13)  91.30 (0.13) 175.89 (0.14)  83.13 (0.13)
               Na_3 -        O_11$3        O1_51         O1_54         O1_52

 Na_4 -      Distance       Angles
 O1_55     2.2434 (0.0043) 
 O_33$4    2.3545 (0.0034)  119.56 (0.19)
 O_35$4    2.3730 (0.0036)   85.48 (0.15) 103.46 (0.13)
 O1_53     2.3758 (0.0041)  154.23 (0.19)  85.55 (0.13)  82.75 (0.14)
 O1_51     2.3831 (0.0039)   81.50 (0.16)  83.47 (0.13) 166.98 (0.14) 109.03 (0.14)
 O1_54     2.8472 (0.0042)   80.72 (0.16) 148.51 (0.13) 101.87 (0.12)  79.39 (0.12)  75.70 (0.12)
               Na_4 -        O1_55         O_33$4        O_35$4        O1_53         O1_51

 Operators for generating equivalent atoms:
 $1   -x+1/2, -y+2, z-1/2
 $2   x-1/2, -y+3/2, -z+1
 $3   -x+1/2, -y+2, z+1/2
 $4   x+1/2, -y+3/2, -z+1

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