96921-58-3Relevant academic research and scientific papers
PROTECTED DERIVATIVES OF 2-AMINO-4-PHOSPHOBUTANOIC ACID
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Provided herein are phosphonate compounds useful for the manufacture of serine phosphopeptide mimetics.
Constrained peptidomimetics reveal detailed geometric requirements of covalent prolyl oligopeptidase inhibitors
Lawandi, Janice,Toumieux, Sylvestre,Seyer, Valentine,Campbell, Philip,Thielges, Sabine,Juillerat-Jeanneret, Lucienne,Moitessier, Nicolas
experimental part, p. 6672 - 6684 (2010/04/28)
Prolyl oligopeptidases cleave peptides on the carboxy side of internal proline residues and their inhibition has potential in the treatment of human brain disorders. Using our docking program FITTED, we have designed a series of constrained covalent inhibitors, built from a series of bicyclic scaffolds, to study the optimal shape required for these small molecules. These structures bear nitrile functional groups that we predicted to covalently bind to the catalytic serine of the enzyme. Synthesis and biological assays using human brain-derived astrocytic cells and endothelial cells and human fibroblasts revealed that these compounds act as selective inhibitors of prolyl oligopeptidase activity compared to prolyl-dipeptidyl-aminopeptidase activity, are able to penetrate the cells and inhibit intracellular activities in intact living cells. This integrated computational and experimental study shed light on the binding mode of inhibitors in the enzyme active site and will guide the design of future drug-like molecules.
New synthetic routes to α-amino acids and γ-oxygenated α-amino acids. Reductive denitration and oxidative transformations of γ-nitro-α-amino acids
Crossley, Maxwell J.,Fung, Yik M.,Kyriakopoulos, Efstathia,Potter, Jeffrey J.
, p. 1123 - 1130 (2007/10/03)
Transformation of γ-nitro-α-amino acid derivatives into α-amino acids by reductive denitration, into the γ-oxo-α-amino acids by ozonolysis of the corresponding amino acid ester nitronate derivatives, and into γ-hydroxy-α-amino acid derivatives by subsequent reduction of the oxo functionality, can be achieved in good yields. As the γ-nitro-α-amino acid derivatives are prepared from N,O-protected dehydroalanines derivable from the corresponding alanine, serine and cysteine derivatives by specific routes, the overall procedures provide a means for selective conversion of these simple α-amino acids into more complex ones.
