Rapid, Continuous Solution-Phase Peptide Synthesis: Application to Peptides of Pharmaceutical Interest
摘要:
The Fmoc/TAEA and Bsmoc/TAEA methods for the rapid, continuous solution synthesis of peptide segments are shown to be applicable to the gram-scale synthesis of short peptides as well as, for the first time, to the synthesis of a relatively long (22-mer) segment, (hPTH 13-34). In the latter case the crude product was of significantly greater purity than a sample obtained via a solid-phase protocol. The Bsmoc methodology was optimized by a new technique involving filtration of the growing partially deprotected peptide at each coupling-deprotection cycle through a short column of silica gel.
A multivalent HIV-1 fusion inhibitor based on small helical foldamers
摘要:
The peptide sequence AcNH-TEG-Glu-Aib-Trp-AibAib-Trp-AibAib-Ile-Asp OH (1), designed to display the WWI epitope found near the C-terminus of gp41, an envelope glycoprotein decorating the surface of the HIV-1 virus, has been synthesized and proved to have a relevant content of helical conformation because of the presence of five alpha-aminoisobutyric acid (Aib) units. Three copies of it have been connected to a tripodal platform based on 2,4,6-triethylbenzene-1,3,5-trimethylamine. The tripodal template 2 is even more structured than 1 thus suggesting a significant interaction between the three sequences connected to the platform. Preliminary inhibition assays of HIV-mediated cell fusion indicated that while the single peptide 1 is inactive within the concentration range of our assay, when it is conjugated to the tripodal platform, it is moderately active. These promising results suggest that our approach constitute a valid alternative to those reported so far. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
A comparison of pseudoproline substitution effects on cyclisation yield in the total syntheses of segetalins B and G
作者:Michelle S. Y. Wong、Katrina A. Jolliffe
DOI:10.1002/pep2.24042
日期:2018.5
pentapeptides, segetalins B and G, using a traceless pseudoproline‐mediated cyclization reaction is reported. The incorporation of a cysteine‐derived gem‐dimethyl pseudoproline [Cys(ΨMe,MePro)] residue in the linear precursors to induce a cisoid amide bond prior to the head‐to‐tailcyclization resulted in improved cyclization yields in both cases. Cysteine‐derived pseudoproline residues lacking the gem‐dimethyl