Chemical Synthesis and Self-Assembly of a Ladderane Phospholipid

Jaron A M Mercer; Carolyn M. Cohen; Steven R. Shuken; Anna M. Wagner; Myles W. Smith; Frank R. Moss; Matthew D. Smith; Riku Vahala; Alejandro Gonzalez-Martinez; Steven G. Boxer; Noah Z. Burns

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Chemical Synthesis and Self-Assembly of a Ladderane Phospholipid

Jaron A M Mercer, Carolyn M. Cohen, Steven R. Shuken, Anna M. Wagner, Myles W. Smith, Frank R. Moss, Matthew D. Smith, Riku Vahala, Alejandro Gonzalez-Martinez^*, Steven G. Boxer, Noah Z. Burns

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Ladderane lipids produced by anammox bacteria constitute some of the most structurally fascinating yet poorly studied molecules among biological membrane lipids. Slow growth of the producing organism and the inherent difficulty of purifying complex lipid mixtures have prohibited isolation of useful amounts of natural ladderane lipids. We have devised a highly selective total synthesis of ladderane lipid tails and a full phosphatidylcholine to enable biophysical studies on chemically homogeneous samples of these molecules. Additionally, we report the first proof of absolute configuration of a natural ladderane.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	15845-15848
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of the American Chemical Society
Volume	138
Issue number	49
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6b10706
Publication status	Published - 14 Dec 2016
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

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