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Abstract

The oxygenated long-chain mycolic acids from many mycobacteria are characterized by the presence of mid-chain cyclopropane groups, which can have either configuration or -configuration with an adjacent methyl branch. To determine the effect of these functional groups on mycolic acid conformation, surface pressure (π) versus mean molecular area isotherms of methoxy- (MeO-) mycolic acids (MAs) from , (Mtb) Canetti and Mtb H37Ra, and of keto-MAs from complex (MAC) and Mtb H37Ra were recorded and analysed. The MeO- and keto-MAs from Mtb H37Ra, containing scarcely any -cyclopropyl groups, apparently took no fully folded ‘W-form’ conformations. Keto-MA from MAC, whose -cyclopropyl group content is nearly 90 %, showed a very solid W-form conformation. MeO-MAs from and Mtb Canetti gave stable W-form conformations at lower temperatures and surface pressures and extended conformations at higher temperatures and surface pressures; their W-form conformation was not as stable as expected from their -cyclopropyl group content, probably because they had a wide range of constituent homologues. Energy level calculations of - or α-methyl -cyclopropane-containing model molecules and computer simulation studies confirmed the superior folding properties of the latter functional unit. The present results were compared with those of MeO- and keto-MAs from Mtb and from Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) reported previously. Among the oxygenated MAs, those having higher -cyclopropane content tended to take W-form conformations more firmly, implying that the meromycolate proximal intra-chain α-methyl -cyclopropane groups facilitated MA folding more than cyclopropane groups.

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