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Flow-Based Fmoc-SPPS Preparation and SAR Study of Cathelicidin-PY Reveals Selective Antimicrobial Activity. Molecules 2023; 28:molecules28041993. [PMID: 36838983 PMCID: PMC9959817 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28041993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2023] [Revised: 02/15/2023] [Accepted: 02/15/2023] [Indexed: 02/23/2023] Open
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Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) hold promise as novel therapeutics in the fight against multi-drug-resistant pathogens. Cathelicidin-PY (NH2-RKCNFLCKLKEKLRTVITSHIDKVLRPQG-COOH) is a 29-residue disulfide-cyclised antimicrobial peptide secreted as an innate host defence mechanism by the frog Paa yunnanensis (PY) and reported to possess broad-spectrum antibacterial and antifungal properties, exhibiting low cytotoxic and low hemolytic activity. Herein, we detail the total synthesis of cathelicidin-PY using an entirely on-resin synthesis, including assembly of the linear sequence by rapid flow Fmoc-SPPS and iodine-mediated disulfide bridge formation. By optimising a synthetic strategy to prepare cathelicidin-PY, this strategy was subsequently adapted to prepare a bicyclic head-to-tail cyclised derivative of cathelicidin-PY. The structure-activity relationship (SAR) of cathelicidin-PY with respect to the N-terminally positioned disulfide was further probed by preparing an alanine-substituted linear analogue and a series of lactam-bridged peptidomimetics implementing side chain to side chain cyclisation. The analogues were investigated for antimicrobial activity, secondary structure by circular dichroism (CD), and stability in human serum. Surprisingly, the disulfide bridge emerged as non-essential to antimicrobial activity and secondary structure but was amenable to synthetic modification. Furthermore, the synthetic AMP and multiple analogues demonstrated selective activity towards Gram-negative pathogen E. coli in physiologically relevant concentrations of divalent cations.
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Haji Abbasi Somehsaraie M, Fathi Vavsari V, Kamangar M, Balalaie S. Chemical Wastes in the Peptide Synthesis Process and Ways to Reduce Them. IRANIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH : IJPR 2022; 21:e123879. [PMID: 36942077 PMCID: PMC10024322 DOI: 10.5812/ijpr-123879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2022] [Revised: 05/25/2022] [Accepted: 05/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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In recent decades, a growing interest has been observed among pharmaceutical companies in producing and selling 80 FDA-approved therapeutic peptides. However, there are many drawbacks to peptide synthesis at the academic and industrial scales, involving the use of large amounts of highly hazardous coupling reagents and solvents. This review focuses on hideous and observant wastes produced before, during, and after peptide synthesis and proposes some solutions to reduce them.
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- Peptide Chemistry Research Institute, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
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- Peptide Chemistry Research Institute, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
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- Peptide Chemistry Research Institute, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
- Corresponding Author: Peptide Chemistry Research Institute, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
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Zieleniewski F, Woolfson DN, Clayden J. Automated solid-phase concatenation of Aib residues to form long, water-soluble, helical peptides. Chem Commun (Camb) 2020; 56:12049-12052. [PMID: 32902536 DOI: 10.1039/d0cc04698a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Iterative coupling of 2-aminoisobutyric acid (Aib) has been achieved rapidly and efficiently using automated solid-phase peptide synthesis, employing diisopropylcarbodiimide (DIC) in the presence of ethyl cyanohydroxyiminoacetate (Oxyma). This method has allowed the first total synthesis of the fungal antibiotic Cephaibol D, and enabled the synthesis of water-soluble oligomers of Aib containing up to an unprecedented sequence of 17 consecutive Aib residues. Conformational analysis of the Aib oligomers in aqueous solution shows a length dependence in their CD spectra, with oligomers of more than 14 Aib residues apparently adopting structured helical conformations.
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- Francis Zieleniewski
- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol, BS8 1TS, UK.
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Sarojini V, Cameron AJ, Varnava KG, Denny WA, Sanjayan G. Cyclic Tetrapeptides from Nature and Design: A Review of Synthetic Methodologies, Structure, and Function. Chem Rev 2019; 119:10318-10359. [PMID: 31418274 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.8b00737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Small cyclic peptides possess a wide range of biological properties and unique structures that make them attractive to scientists working in a range of areas from medicinal to materials chemistry. However, cyclic tetrapeptides (CTPs), which are important members of this family, are notoriously difficult to synthesize. Various synthetic methodologies have been developed that enable access to natural product CTPs and their rationally designed synthetic analogues having novel molecular structures. These methodologies include the use of reversible protecting groups such as pseudoprolines that restrict conformational freedom, ring contraction strategies, on-resin cyclization approaches, and optimization of coupling reagents and reaction conditions such as temperature and dilution factors. Several fundamental studies have documented the impacts of amino acid configurations, N-alkylation, and steric bulk on both synthetic success and ensuing conformations. Carefully executed retrosynthetic ring dissection and the unique structural features of the linear precursor sequences that result from the ring dissection are crucial for the success of the cyclization step. Other factors that influence the outcome of the cyclization step include reaction temperature, solvent, reagents used as well as dilution levels. The purpose of this review is to highlight the current state of affairs on naturally occurring and rationally designed cyclic tetrapeptides, including strategies investigated for their syntheses in the literature, the conformations adopted by these molecules, and specific examples of their function. Using selected examples from the literature, an in-depth discussion of the synthetic techniques and reaction parameters applied for the successful syntheses of 12-, 13-, and 14-membered natural product CTPs and their novel analogues are presented, with particular focus on the cyclization step. Selected examples of the three-dimensional structures of cyclic tetrapeptides studied by NMR, and X-ray crystallography are also included.
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- Vijayalekshmi Sarojini
- School of Chemical Sciences and the Centre for Green Chemical Science , University of Auckland , Auckland 1142 , New Zealand.,The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology , Wellington 6140 , New Zealand
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- School of Chemical Sciences and the Centre for Green Chemical Science , University of Auckland , Auckland 1142 , New Zealand
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- School of Chemical Sciences and the Centre for Green Chemical Science , University of Auckland , Auckland 1142 , New Zealand
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- Division of Organic Chemistry , CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory , Dr. Homi Bhabha Road , Pune 411 008 , India
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Takayama R, Hayakawa S, Hinou H, Albericio F, Garcia-Martin F. Further applications of classical amide coupling reagents: Microwave-assisted esterification on solid phase. J Pept Sci 2018; 24:e3111. [DOI: 10.1002/psc.3111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2018] [Revised: 06/04/2018] [Accepted: 06/13/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- Risa Takayama
- Graduate School of Life Science; Hokkaido University; N21, W11, Kita-ku Sapporo 001-0021 Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Science; Hokkaido University; N21, W11, Kita-ku Sapporo 001-0021 Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Science; Hokkaido University; N21, W11, Kita-ku Sapporo 001-0021 Japan
- Faculty of Advanced Life Science; Hokkaido University; N21, W11, Kita-ku Sapporo 001-0021 Japan
- Medicinal Chemistry Pharmaceuticals, Company Ltd.; N21, W12, Kita-ku Sapporo 001-0021 Japan
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- Department of Organic Chemistry and CIBER-BBN, Networking Centre on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine; University of Barcelona; Barcelona 080028 Spain
- School of Chemistry and Physics; University of KwaZulu-Natal; Durban 4001 South Africa
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- Graduate School of Life Science; Hokkaido University; N21, W11, Kita-ku Sapporo 001-0021 Japan
- Faculty of Advanced Life Science; Hokkaido University; N21, W11, Kita-ku Sapporo 001-0021 Japan
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Prashanth JR, Hasaballah N, Vetter I. Pharmacological screening technologies for venom peptide discovery. Neuropharmacology 2017; 127:4-19. [PMID: 28377116 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2017.03.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2017] [Revised: 03/11/2017] [Accepted: 03/31/2017] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Venomous animals occupy one of the most successful evolutionary niches and occur on nearly every continent. They deliver venoms via biting and stinging apparatuses with the aim to rapidly incapacitate prey and deter predators. This has led to the evolution of venom components that act at a number of biological targets - including ion channels, G-protein coupled receptors, transporters and enzymes - with exquisite selectivity and potency, making venom-derived components attractive pharmacological tool compounds and drug leads. In recent years, plate-based pharmacological screening approaches have been introduced to accelerate venom-derived drug discovery. A range of assays are amenable to this purpose, including high-throughput electrophysiology, fluorescence-based functional and binding assays. However, despite these technological advances, the traditional activity-guided fractionation approach is time-consuming and resource-intensive. The combination of screening techniques suitable for miniaturization with sequence-based discovery approaches - supported by advanced proteomics, mass spectrometry, chromatography as well as synthesis and expression techniques - promises to further improve venom peptide discovery. Here, we discuss practical aspects of establishing a pipeline for venom peptide drug discovery with a particular emphasis on pharmacology and pharmacological screening approaches. This article is part of the Special Issue entitled 'Venom-derived Peptides as Pharmacological Tools.'
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- Jutty Rajan Prashanth
- Centre for Pain Research, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, 306 Carmody Rd, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Qld 4072, Australia
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- Centre for Pain Research, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, 306 Carmody Rd, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Qld 4072, Australia
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- Centre for Pain Research, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, 306 Carmody Rd, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Qld 4072, Australia; School of Pharmacy, 20 Cornwall St, Woolloongabba, Qld 4102, Australia.
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Qvit N, Kornfeld OS. Development of a Backbone Cyclic Peptide Library as Potential Antiparasitic Therapeutics Using Microwave Irradiation. J Vis Exp 2016:e53589. [PMID: 26863382 DOI: 10.3791/53589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are intimately involved in almost all biological processes and are linked to many human diseases. Therefore, there is a major effort to target PPIs in basic research and in the pharmaceutical industry. Protein-protein interfaces are usually large, flat, and often lack pockets, complicating the discovery of small molecules that target such sites. Alternative targeting approaches using antibodies have limitations due to poor oral bioavailability, low cell-permeability, and production inefficiency. Using peptides to target PPI interfaces has several advantages. Peptides have higher conformational flexibility, increased selectivity, and are generally inexpensive. However, peptides have their own limitations including poor stability and inefficiency crossing cell membranes. To overcome such limitations, peptide cyclization can be performed. Cyclization has been demonstrated to improve peptide selectivity, metabolic stability, and bioavailability. However, predicting the bioactive conformation of a cyclic peptide is not trivial. To overcome this challenge, one attractive approach it to screen a focused library to screen in which all backbone cyclic peptides have the same primary sequence, but differ in parameters that influence their conformation, such as ring size and position. We describe a detailed protocol for synthesizing a library of backbone cyclic peptides targeting specific parasite PPIs. Using a rational design approach, we developed peptides derived from the scaffold protein Leishmania receptor for activated C-kinase (LACK). We hypothesized that sequences in LACK that are conserved in parasites, but not in the mammalian host homolog, may represent interaction sites for proteins that are critical for the parasites' viability. The cyclic peptides were synthesized using microwave irradiation to reduce reaction times and increase efficiency. Developing a library of backbone cyclic peptides with different ring sizes facilitates a systematic screen for the most biological active conformation. This method provides a general, fast, and facile way to synthesize cyclic peptides.
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- Nir Qvit
- Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine;
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- Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine
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Pipkorn R, Rawer S, Wiessler M, Waldeck W, Koch M, Schrenk HH, Braun K. SPPS resins impact the PNA-syntheses' improvement. Int J Med Sci 2013; 10:331-7. [PMID: 23423830 PMCID: PMC3575629 DOI: 10.7150/ijms.5374] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2012] [Accepted: 12/19/2012] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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The personalized medicine, also documented as "individualized medicine", is an effective and therapeutic approach. It is designed to treat the disease of the individual patient whose precise differential gene expression profile is well known. The trend in the biomedical and biophysical research shows important consequences for the pharmaceutical drug and diagnostics research. It requires a high variability in the design and safety of target-specific pharmacologically active molecules and diagnostic components for imaging of metabolic processes. A key technology which may fulfill the highest demands during synthesis of these individual drugs and diagnostics is the solid phase synthesis which is congenial to automated manufacturing. Additionally the choice of tools like resins and reagents is pivotal to synthesize drugs and diagnostics in high quality and yields. Here we demonstrate the solid phase synthesis effects dependent on the choice of resin and of the deprotection agent.
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- Rüdiger Pipkorn
- German Cancer Research Center, Peptide Synthesis Core Facility, INF 280, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
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Structural stability–chromatographic retention relationship on exenatide diastereomer separation. Anal Bioanal Chem 2012; 404:2437-44. [DOI: 10.1007/s00216-012-6352-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2012] [Revised: 08/03/2012] [Accepted: 08/13/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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