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f the cyanobacterium
Lyngbya confervoides o
ff Grassy Key in Florida yielded grassypeptolide (
1), a 31-membered macrocyclicdepsipeptide with unusually high
D-amino acid content, two thiazolines, and one
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f" BORDER=0 ALIGN="middle">-amino acid. We report the rigorous 3D structure determinationand con
formational analysis in solution and solid state by NMR, MS, X-ray crystallography, chemical degradation, and molecular modelinginvolving distance geometry and restrained molecular dynamics. Grassypeptolide (
1) inhibited cancer cell growth with IC
50 values
from 1.0 to4.2
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