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Solid-phase synthesis of neuroactive spider-wasp hybrid toxin analogues using a backbone amide linker
Olsen, Christian A.,Witt, Matthias,Franzyk, Henrik,Jaroszewski, Jerzy W.
, p. 405 - 408 (2008/02/03)
Polyamine toxins isolated from the venoms of spiders and wasps and their synthetic analogues are uncompetitive antagonists of ligand-gated ionotropic receptors in the central- and peripheral nervous systems, and have proved valuable as tools for the investigation of receptor structure and function. In the present letter we describe the efficient solid-phase synthesis (SPS) of novel hybrid toxins using a BAL resin. This strategy enables the bidirectional construction of toxin molecules and has a potential in SPS of chemically diverse libraries of toxin analogues for structure-activity relationship (SAR) studies.