Microbial cyclic lipopeptides are an important class of antifungal compounds with applications in pharmacology and biotechnology. However, the cytotoxicity of many cyclic lipopeptides limits their potential as antifungal drugs. Here we present a structure-activity relationship study on the puwainaphycin/minutissamide (PUW/MIN) family of cyclic lipopeptides isolated from cyanobacteria. PUWs/MINs with variable fatty acid chain lengths differed in the dynamic of their cytotoxic effect despite their similar IC50 after 48 hours (2.8 μM for MIN A and 3.2 μM for PUW F). Furthermore, they exhibited different antifungal potency with the lowest MIC values obtained for MIN A and PUW F against the facultative human pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus (37 μM) and the plant pathogen Alternaria alternata (0.6 μM), respectively. We used a Grignard-reaction with alkylmagnesium halides to lengthen the lipopeptide FA moiety as well as the Steglich esterification on the free hydroxyl substituents to prepare semi-synthetic lipopeptide variants possessing multiple fatty acid tails. Cyclic lipopeptides with extended and branched FA tails showed improved strain-specific antifungal activity against A. fumigatus (MIC = 0.5-3.8 μM) and A. alternata (MIC = 0.1-0.5 μM), but with partial retention of the cytotoxic effect (∼10-20 μM). However, lipopeptides with esterified free hydroxyl groups possessed substantially higher antifungal potencies, especially against A. alternata (MIC = 0.2-0.6 μM), and greatly reduced or abolished cytotoxic activity (>20 μM). Our findings pave the way for a generation of semi-synthetic variants of lipopeptides with improved and selective antifungal activities.

Centre Algatech Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences Opatovický mlýn Novohradská 237 379 81 Třeboň Czech Republic

Department of Microbiology University of Helsinki Biocenter 1 Viikinkaari 9 FIN 00014 Helsinki Finland

Faculty of Science Charles University Viničná 5 128 44 Prague 2 Czech Republic

Faculty of Science University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice Branišovská 1760 37005 České Budějovice Czech Republic

TUM Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability Technical University Munich 94315 Straubing Germany

Weihenstephan Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences Organic analytical Chemistry 94315 Straubing Germany

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