Synthesis of aryl esters of protected amino acids from aryl sulfonates
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Aryl esters of Boc- and Fmoc-protected amino acids derived from electron-deficient phenols have been prepared in good yields from aryl 4-nitrobenzenesulfonates in the presence of l-hydroxy-benzotriazole as catalyst. (C) 1999 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. Ail rights reserved.
Discovery of 3-Aminobenzyloxycarbonyl as an N-Terminal Group Conferring High Affinity to the Minimal Phosphopeptide Sequence Recognized by the Grb2-SH2 Domain
The observation that anthranilic acid as N-terminal group produces a dramatic increase of the binding affinity of the phosphopeptide sequence Glu-pTyr-Ile-Asn for the Grb2-SH2 domain was rationalized by molecular modeling. The model, which invokes a stacking interaction between the N-terminal group and the SH2 domain residue Arg alpha A2, was subsequently used to design the 3-aminobenzyloxycarbonyl N-terminal group. The latter confers high affinity (IC50 = 65 nM in an ELISA assay) to the minimal sequence pTyr-Ile-Asn recognized by the Grb2-SH2 domain.