puromycin   Click here for help

GtoPdb Ligand ID: 13311

Synonyms: achromycin
PDB Ligand
Compound class: Natural product
Comment: Puromycin is an aminoacyl nucleoside antimicrobial compound, originally isolated from Streptomyces alboniger [4]. It is a potent inhibitor of protein translation in both eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms [5] and has not been of clinical utility due to its non-selective systemic toxicity. Instead it is used extensively in the laboratory to study mechanisms of protein synthesis and also as a selective agent in mammalian cell culture systems (reviewed in [2]).
Please note that puromycin was formerly known as achromycin, which was also a trade name used for tetracycline.
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2D Structure
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Physico-chemical Properties
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Physico-chemical Properties

Calculated molecular properties are available for small molecules and natural products (not peptides). Properties were generated using the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) (Willighagen EL et al. Journal of Cheminformatics vol. 9:33. 2017, doi:10.1186/s13321-017-0220-4; https://cdk.github.io/). All properties were selected to enable the prediction of the Lipinski Rule-of-Five profile or ‘druglikeness’ for each ligand. For more info on each category see the help pages.

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Hydrogen bond acceptors 12
Hydrogen bond donors 4
Rotatable bonds 9
Topological polar surface area 157.6
Molecular weight 471.51
XLogP -1.28
No. Lipinski's rules broken 1

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SMILES / InChI / InChIKey
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SMILES / InChI / InChIKey

SMILES (Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry Specification) A specification for unambiguously describing the structure of chemical molecules using short ASCII strings. Canonical SMILES specify a unique representation of the 2D structure without chiral or isotopic specifications. Isomeric SMILES include chiral specification and isotopes.

Standard InChI (IUPAC International Chemical Identifier) and InChIKey InChI is a non-proprietary, standard, textual identifier for chemical substances designed to facilitate linking of information and database searching. An InChIKey is a simplified version of a full InChI, designed for easier web searching.

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Canonical SMILES CN(C)C1=NC=NC2=C1N=CN2[C@H]3[C@@H]([C@@H]([C@@H](CO)O3)NC(=O)[C@H](CC4=CC=C(C=C4)OC)N)O
Isomeric SMILES CN(C)C1=NC=NC2=C1N=CN2[C@H]3[C@@H]([C@@H]([C@H](O3)CO)NC(=O)[C@H](CC4=CC=C(C=C4)OC)N)O
InChI InChI=1S/C22H29N7O5/c1-28(2)19-17-20(25-10-24-19)29(11-26-17)22-18(31)16(15(9-30)34-22)27-21(32)14(23)8-12-4-6-13(33-3)7-5-12/h4-7,10-11,14-16,18,22,30-31H,8-9,23H2,1-3H3,(H,27,32)/t14-,15+,16+,18+,22+/m0/s1
InChI Key RXWNCPJZOCPEPQ-NVWDDTSBSA-N

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Bioactivity Comments
Puromycin is effective against Gram-positive bacteria but has limited activity against Gram-negative pathogens due to its low permeability. Resistance to puromycin is conferred by the puromycin N-acetyltranferase (pac) gene, that was isolated from S. alboniger, and is used as a selection marker for the isolation of stably transfected mammalian cells lines [3].
Selectivity at enzymes
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Target Sp. Type Action Value Parameter Concentration range (M) Reference
Puromycin-sensitive aminopeptidase Hs Inhibitor Inhibition 5.6 pIC50 - 1
⤷ pIC50 5.6 (IC50 2.45x10-6 M) [1]