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Synthesis and evaluation of peptidic irreversible inhibitors of tissue transglutaminase
Pardin, Christophe,Gillet, Steve M.F.G.,Keillor, Jeffrey W.
, p. 8379 - 8385 (2008/02/05)
Herein we report the synthesis and the evaluation of eight novel compounds as irreversible inhibitors of transglutaminase (TGase). These compounds are based on a minimal peptidic scaffold shown previously [Chem. Biol. 2005, 12, 469-475] to confer affinity for the TGase active site and bear electrophilic groups such as α,β-unsaturated amide, chloroacetamide or maleimide; their general structure being Cbz-Phe-spacer-electrophile. The affinity conferred by the Cbz-Phe scaffold was determined by comparison to N-propylacrylamide and the length of the spacer was also varied to evaluate its importance. The inhibitory efficiencies (kinact/KI) of these compounds vary up to 105 M-1 min-1, among the highest reported for derivatives based on this simple Cbz-Phe peptidic scaffold.
Modification of the Enkephalin "Message" with an Artificial Polycationic C-Terminus
Jacobson, Alan R.,Tam, S. William,Sayre, Lawrence M.
, p. 2816 - 2821 (2007/10/02)
The C-terminal "address" sequences of prodynorphin-derived opioid peptides contain an unusually high proportion of basic residues, which are known to be crucial for conferring high activity and selectivity for κ-opioid receptors.In an effort to investigat
