- Water-soluble, stable and azide-reactive strained dialkynes for biocompatible double strain-promoted click chemistry
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The Sondheimer dialkyne is extensively used in double strain-promoted azide-alkyne cycloadditions. This reagent suffers with poor water-solubility and rapidly decomposes in aqueous solutions. This intrinsically limits its application in biological systems, and no effective solutions are currently available. Herein, we report the development of novel highly water-soluble, stable, and azide-reactive strained dialkyne reagents. To demonstrate their extensive utility, we applied our novel dialkynes to a double strain-promoted macrocyclisation strategy to generate functionalised p53-based stapled peptides for inhibiting the oncogenic p53-MDM2 interaction. These functionalised stapled peptides bind MDM2 with low nanomolar affinity and show p53 activation in a cellular environment. Overall, our highly soluble, stable and azide-reactive dialkynes offer significant advantages over the currently used Sondheimer dialkyne, and could be utilised for numerous biological applications.
- Sharma, Krishna,Strizhak, Alexander V.,Fowler, Elaine,Wang, Xuelu,Xu, Wenshu,Hatt Jensen, Claus,Wu, Yuteng,Sore, Hannah F.,Lau, Yu Heng,Hyv?nen, Marko,Itzhaki, Laura S.,Spring, David R.
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supporting information
p. 8014 - 8018
(2019/09/06)
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- Optimized syntheses of Fmoc azido amino acids for the preparation of azidopeptides
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The rise of CuI-catalyzed click chemistry has initiated an increased demand for azido and alkyne derivatives of amino acid as precursors for the synthesis of clicked peptides. However, the use of azido and alkyne amino acids in peptide chemistry is complicated by their high cost. For this reason, we investigated the possibility of the in-house preparation of a set of five Fmoc azido amino acids: β-azido l-alanine and d-alanine, γ-azido l-homoalanine, δ-azido l-ornithine and ω-azido l-lysine. We investigated several reaction pathways described in the literature, suggested several improvements and proposed several alternative routes for the synthesis of these compounds in high purity. Here, we demonstrate that multigram quantities of these Fmoc azido amino acids can be prepared within a week or two and at user-friendly costs. We also incorporated these azido amino acids into several model tripeptides, and we observed the formation of a new elimination product of the azido moiety upon conditions of prolonged couplings with 2-(1H-benzotriazol-1-yl)-1,1,3,3-tetramethyluronium hexafluorophosphate/DIPEA. We hope that our detailed synthetic protocols will inspire some peptide chemists to prepare these Fmoc azido acids in their laboratories and will assist them in avoiding the too extensive costs of azidopeptide syntheses. Experimental procedures and/or analytical data for compounds 3–5, 20, 25, 26, 30 and 43–47 are provided in the supporting information.
- Pícha, Jan,Budě?ínsky, Milo?,Machá?ková, Kate?ina,Collinsová, Michaela,Jirá?ek, Ji?í
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p. 202 - 214
(2017/04/06)
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- Identification of a new p53/MDM2 inhibitor motif inspired by studies of chlorofusin
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Previous studies on the natural product chlorofusin have shown that the full peptide and azaphilone structure are required for inhibition of the interaction between MDM2 and p53. In the current work, we utilized the cyclic peptide as a template and introd
- Cominetti, Marco M.D.,Goffin, Sarah A.,Raffel, Ewan,Turner, Kerrie D.,Ramoutar, Jordann C.,O'Connell, Maria A.,Howell, Lesley A.,Searcey, Mark
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p. 4878 - 4880
(2015/10/28)
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- Maintaining biological activity by using triazoles as disufide bond mimetics
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Click into place: Tachyplesin-I (TP-I) analogues in which both disulfide bridges (1) have been replaced with triazoles (2) represent structural mimetics of TP-I that display similar or slightly improved antibacterial activity. Optimized structures were obtained by replacing the cysteine residues in TP-I by azido- and alkyno-functionalized amino acids. Copyright
- Holland-Nell, Kai,Meldal, Morten
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supporting information; experimental part
p. 5204 - 5206
(2011/06/26)
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- Nα-Fmoc-protected ω-azido- and ω-alkynyl-L- amino acids as building blocks for the synthesis of "clickable" peptides
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The growing interest in the 1,4-disubstituted-1,2,3-triazolyl moiety as an amide bond surrogate and its formation through very mild, chemoselective, and bioorthogonal CuI-catalyzed Huisgen 1,3-dipolar [3+2] cycloaddition of an alkynyl to an azi
- Isaad, Alexandra Le Chevalier,Barbetti, Francesca,Rovero, Paolo,D'Ursi, Anna Maria,Chelli, Mario,Chorev, Michael,Papini, Anna Maria
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experimental part
p. 5308 - 5314
(2009/06/18)
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