Microwave heating in solid-phase peptide synthesis

SL Pedersen, AP Tofteng, L Malik… - Chemical Society …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
The highly refined organic chemistry in solid-phase synthesis has made it the method of
choice not only to assemble peptides but also small proteins–mainly on a laboratory scale …

Peptidomimetics: modifying peptides in the pursuit of better vaccines

NP Croft, AW Purcell - Expert Review of Vaccines, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Peptide vaccines represent a potential strategy for the prevention and treatment of
pathogenic diseases, cancers and autoimmune disorders; their low cost, ease of synthesis …

Chemoselective peptidomimetic ligation using thioacid peptides and aziridine templates

N Assem, A Natarajan, AK Yudin - Journal of the American …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Chemoselective peptidomimetic ligation has been made possible using thioacid peptides
and NH aziridine-terminated amino acids and peptides. In the course of this reaction, a …

Chemoenzymatic Posttranslational Modification Reactions for the Synthesis of Ψ[CH2NH]‐Containing Peptides

Y Kato, T Kuroda, Y Huang, R Ohta, Y Goto… - Angewandte …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Ψ [CH2NH] reduced amide bond is a peptide isostere widely used in the
development of bioactive pseudopeptides. Reported here is a method of chemoenzymatic …

Synthesis and structure–activity relationship studies of peptidomimetic PKB/Akt inhibitors: The significance of backbone interactions

Y Tal-Gan, NS Freeman, S Klein, A Levitzki… - Bioorganic & medicinal …, 2010 - Elsevier
Elevated levels of activated Protein Kinase B (PKB/Akt) have been detected in many types of
human cancer. In contrast to ATP site inhibitors, substrate-based inhibitors are more likely to …

Structural comparison of homologous reduced peptide, reduced azapeptide, iminoazapeptide, and methyleneoxypeptide analogues

R Vanderesse, V Grand, D Limal… - Journal of the …, 1998 - ACS Publications
The homologous RCO-Pro-Xaa-NHR 'model pseudodipeptides containing the reduced
peptide (CαCH2NHCα), reduced azapeptide (CαCH2NHNα), methyleneoxy (CαCH2OCα) …

Microwave-assisted solid-phase synthesis of pseudopeptides containing reduced amide bond

MS Park, HS Oh, H Cho, KH Lee - Tetrahedron letters, 2007 - Elsevier
Procedures were developed for reducing the reaction time and improving the yield of
reductive alkylation in solid phase pseudopeptide synthesis by utilizing microwave …

Further evidence for 2-alkyl-2-carboxyazetidines as γ-turn inducers

JL Baeza, G Gerona-Navarro… - The Journal of …, 2009 - ACS Publications
Reverse turns, a common motif in proteins and peptides, have attracted attention due to their
relevance in a wide variety of biological processes. In an attempt to artificially imitate and …

Convergent synthesis of aminomethylene peptidomimetics

N Assem, AK Yudin - nature protocols, 2012 - nature.com
This protocol describes a convergent synthesis of reduced amide bond peptidomimetics
using thioacid-terminated peptides and aziridine-containing peptide conjugates. This …

The non protonable reduced aza-peptide fragment

R Vanderesse, L David, V Grand, M Marraud… - Tetrahedron letters, 1997 - Elsevier
The reduced aza-peptide fragment (Cα CH2 NH NαR CO NH Cα) is obtained by
reduction of the semicarbazone moiety (Cα CH N NαR CO NH Cα) in an imino aza …