American Chemical Society, Organic Letters, 8(9), p. 1525-1528, 2007
DOI: 10.1021/ol070294u
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[structure: see text] Two new cyclic peptides, thalassospiramides A and B (1 and 2), were isolated from a new member of the marine alpha-proteobacterium Thalassospira. The thalassospiramides, the structures of which were assigned by combined spectral and chemical methods, bear unusual gamma-amino acids and show immunosuppressive activity in an interleukin-5 production inhibition assay (IC50 = 5 muM for thalassospiramide B).