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needed for continued development of multifunctional
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biomaterials. While both sulfoxide and sulfonium groups can be Mass Spectrometry Instrumentation DwOaI:s10.m10a3d9/eC8CaCva0i3l0a4b8leK
introduced into
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placement of these groups as they will be statistically California, Los Angeles Molecular Instrumentation Center –
distributed along the chains. In our experience, due to limited Mass Spectrometry Facility in the Department of Chemistry. We
solubility of
partial oxidation or partial alkylation of
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in suitable reaction media, precise control over thank Emma Pelegri-O’Day for assistance in setting up thiol-ene
chains is challenging. reactions, and Brian Shao and Professor Hosea Nelson (UCLA)
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Hence, methodology for facile installation of sulfoxide and for assistance with chiral HPLC studies on Hag amino acids.
sulfonium functionality in discrete segments within
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Scheme 4. Conformational changes induced by thioether alkylation or
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To demonstrate the feasibility of such modifications, a block
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M G 19 prepared as described
above, was subjected to a sequence of selective reactions
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HA
(
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Scheme 5). Hydrophobic, -helical M G 19 was first oxidized
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, segments. The thiol mEG SH was then selectively added
to the Hag residues via radical coupling in acidic media, which is
beneficial for thiol-ene conjugation and also prohibits
undesirable reduction of sulfoxides by thiols. The resulting
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retained -helical conformations in the mEG4-G domains.
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The thioether groups in this copolymer were then selectively
alkylated using iodomethane, taking advantage of the
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resistance of
conditions.
copolypeptide,
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residues toward alkylation under these
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42mEG4-G
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segments were now conformationally disordered in water. In
addition to successful selective functional modification of each
copolypeptide domain, the respective thioether modifications
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Scheme 5. Synthesis of diblock copolypeptide MO42mEG
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contains discrete sulfoxide and sulfonium domains. Percent yields are
total isolated yields of purified copolypeptides.
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copolymers, facile modification of Hag residues with thiols, and
ability to further modify the thioether products provide a
number of attractive features supporting utilization of Hag
residues in peptidic materials. Beyond what has been achieved
in previous alkene containing polypeptides, the example
process in Scheme 5 shows how incorporation of Hag residues
into polypeptides can be used to differentially modify discrete
segments in an orthogonal manner and also modulate
polypeptide chain conformations.
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