Synthesis and Evaluation of New Elastase Substrates as Tripartate Prodrugs
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Compounds consisting of a peptide sequence, 4-aminobutyric acid or 5-aminovaleric acid, respectively, as spacer units, and benzyl alcohol as a model leaving group have been prepared and tested for their ability to serve as substrates for porcine pancreatic elastase and human polymorphnuclear elastase. Those compounds containing an Ala-Ala-Ala sequence served as effective substrates for both enzymes. Hydrolytic cleavage, however, occurred exclusively at the ester bond, not at the pepticle-spacer bond. In order to direct the cleavage site from the ester to the amide bond the peptide sequence was varied. We introduced a proline residue in P-3 (in relation to the ester bond) which is known to prevent the cleavage of a substrate by elastase. No hydrolysis, however, either of the ester bond or of the pepticle-spacer bond, was found for these compounds.
The first synthesis of siderophore conjugates of two macrolide antibiotics, spiramycin 1 and neospiramycin 2, which are unable to penetrate the outer membrane of Gramnegative bacteria are described. These novel conjugates were prepared by regioselective acylation of a hydroxyl function of 1 and 2 with a dihydroxybenzoic Fe(III) complexing ligand linked via a carboxyl group containing spacer to the macrolide antibiotics. The preliminary biological evaluation of these novel conjugates under standard and iron depleted conditions has shown that their antibacterial activity was comparable to that of spiramycin 1 and neospiramycin 2.
Molecular structural requirements, dye specificity, and application of anionic peptide amphiphiles that induce intense fluorescence in cationic dyes
作者:Hiroshi Hachisako、Naoya Ryu、Ryoichi Murakami
DOI:10.1039/b818206j
日期:——
acid with relatively shorter side-chain methylenes. The dye specificity in terms of induction of the intense fluorescence was also investigated using hemicyanines (stilbazoliumetc.), cyanine, carbocyanine, thiacarbocyanines, and azo dye. The amphiphile with the shortest octanoyl-β-alanyl double-chain alkyl groups, longer side-chain, and shorter spacer was found to show increased sensitivity to alkali
A systematic understanding of gelation self-assembly: solvophobically assisted supramolecular gelation via conformational reorientation across amide functionality on a hydrophobically modulated dipeptide based ambidextrous gelator, N-n-acyl-(<scp>l</scp>)Val-X(OBn), (X = 1,ω-amino acid)
作者:Saubhik Haldar、Koninika Karmakar
DOI:10.1039/c5ra10209j
日期:——
Gelator backbone conformational flexibility plays an important role in a supramolecular self-assembly which is synergistically assisted by solvophobic interaction leading to a gelation of three sets of hydrophobically modulated dipeptidic gelators.
[EN] MULTIFUNCTIONAL RADICAL QUENCHERS<br/>[FR] AGENTS D'EXTINCTION DE RADICAUX MULTIFONCTIONNELS
申请人:UNIV ARIZONA
公开号:WO2014059158A1
公开(公告)日:2014-04-17
The invention provides a compound of formula (I): [insert formula (I)] wherein X, Y, and R1-R4 have any of the values defined in the specification, and salts thereof, as well as compositions comprising the compounds or salts. The compounds are useful for treating diseases associated with impaired mitochondrial function in an animal.
The invention provides compounds of formula (I) suitable for use as contrast agents in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The compounds of the present invention are manganese (II) complexes having advantageous properties as compared with similar known compounds.