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Crystal Packing-Guided Construction of Hetero-Oligomeric Peptidic Ensembles as Synthetic 3-in-1 Transporters
Shen, Jie,Ye, Ruijuan,Zeng, Huaqiang
, p. 12924 - 12930 (2021)
Strategies to generate heteromeric peptidic ensembles via a social self-sorting process are limited. Herein, we report a crystal packing-inspired social self-sorting strategy broadly applicable to diverse types of H-bonded peptidic frameworks. Specificall
Antimicrobial and antitumor activity of peptidomimetics synthesized from amino acids
Li, Huan,Fu, Shuang,Wang, Yudan,Yuan, Xuan,Liu, Lijia,Dong, Hongxing,Wang, Qiang,Zhang, Zhijia
, (2020/12/07)
Thirteen cationic peptidomimetics derived from amino acids bearing an alkyl or ethynylphenyl moiety that mimic the structure of cationic antibacterial peptides were designed and synthesized using a simple coupling reaction of an amino acid with a substitu
A highly active and selective chalcogen bond-mediated perchlorate channel
Hu, Jingliang,Huo, Yanping,Jiang, Peng,Li, Zhongyan,Yuan, Lin,Zeng, Huan,Zeng, Huaqiang
supporting information, (2021/11/09)
Artificial membrane transporters that either use chalcogen bonds to facilitate transmembrane flux of anions or show high selectivity toward perchlorate anions are rare. In this work, we report on one such novel monopeptide-based transporter system, featuring both chalcogen bonds for highly efficient anion transport and high transport selectivity toward ClO4? anions. Structurally, these monopeptide molecules associate with each other via H-bonds to produce H-bonded 1D stack that not only one dimensionally but also directionally aligns the terminal bicyclic thiophene motifs to the same side. Functionally, these well-aligned thiophenes create a sulfur-rich transmembrane pathway, combinatorially fine-tunable to enable anions to efficiently cross the membrane in the increasing activity of Cl? ? 3? 4? via chalcogen bonds, with EC50 values of 0.75, 0.40, 0.37 and 0.093 μmol/L (0.3 mol% relative to lipid molecules), respectively.
Pore-Forming Monopeptides as Exceptionally Active Anion Channels
Ren, Changliang,Zeng, Fei,Shen, Jie,Chen, Feng,Roy, Arundhati,Zhou, Shaoyuan,Ren, Haisheng,Zeng, Huaqiang
supporting information, p. 8817 - 8826 (2018/07/05)
We describe here a unique family of pore-forming anion-transporting peptides possessing a single-amino-acid-derived peptidic backbone that is the shortest among natural and synthetic pore-forming peptides. These monopeptides with built-in H-bonding capacity self-assemble into an H-bonded 1D columnar structure, presenting three types of exteriorly arranged hydrophobic side chains that closely mimic the overall topology of an α-helix. Dynamic interactions among these side chains and membrane lipids proceed in a way likely similar to how α-helix bundle is formed. This subsequently enables oligomerization of these rod-like structures to form ring-shaped ensembles of varying sizes with a pore size of smaller than 1.0 nm in diameter but sufficiently large for transporting anions across the membrane. The intrinsic high modularity in the backbone further allows rapid tuning in side chains for combinatorial optimization of channel's ion-transport activity, culminating in the discovery of an exceptionally active anion-transporting monopeptide 6L10 with an EC50 of 0.10 μM for nitrate anions.
Combinatorial Evolution of Fast-Conducting Highly Selective K+-Channels via Modularly Tunable Directional Assembly of Crown Ethers
Ren, Changliang,Shen, Jie,Zeng, Huaqiang
supporting information, p. 12338 - 12341 (2017/09/23)
We describe here a modularly tunable molecular strategy for construction and combinatorial optimization of highly efficient K+-selective channels. In our strategy, a highly robust supramolecular H-bonded 1D ensemble was used to order the appended crown ethers in such a way that they roughly stack on top of each other to form a channel for facilitated ion transport across the membrane. Among 15 channels that all prefer K+ over Na+ ions, channel molecule 5F8 shows the most pronounced optimum for K+ while disfavoring all other biologically important cations (e.g., Na+, Ca2+ and Mg2+). With a K+/Na+ selectivity of 9.8 and an EC50 value of 6.2 μM for K+ ion, 5F8 is clearly among the best synthetic potassium channels developed over the past decades.
Water-compatible iminium activation: Highly enantioselective organocatalytic michael addition of malonates to α,β-unsaturated enones
Mao, Zhifeng,Jia, Yaomei,Li, Wenyi,Wang, Rui
supporting information; experimental part, p. 7428 - 7430 (2011/02/22)
The highly enantioselective Michael addition of malonates to α,β-unsaturated ketones in water was reported to be catalyzed by a primary-secondary diamine catalyst containing a long alkyl chain. This asymmetric Michael addition process was found to be effe
