Cyclic disulfides of cysteinyl-tetraglycyl-cysteine (
A study was made of the influence of the so-called carba substitution of the disulphide bridge on the properties of inhibitors obtained by the introduction of deaminopenicillamine into position 1 of the oxytocin molecule. Two analogues - [dPen1]carba-6-oxytocin (
Preparation of oxytocin, arginine-vasopressin and its deamino-analogue serves as an example of use of 2,4,6-trimethylbenzyl group for protection of the cysteine sulfur atom in the peptide synthesis. This modified benzyl group is sufficiently stable under conditions of solvolytic removal of common amino-protecting groups and it can be cleaved off under mild conditions with liquid hydrogen fluoride or trifluoromethanesulfonic acid.
Analogues of deamino-6-carba-oxytocin, containing isoleucine, O-methyltyrosine or methionine in position 2, either in the sulfide or sulfoxide form, were prepared and studied pharmacologically. These compounds had considerably lower biological activities than the analogous compounds of the 1-carba series. Furthermore, analogues of [1,6-homolanthionine]deamino-oxytocin were prepared with O-methyltyrosine or isoleucine in position 2; these compounds had a certain degree of oxytocic activity.