Chemical syntheses and biological studies on dimeric chimeras of oxytocin and the V(2)-antagonist, d(CH(2))(5)[D-Ile(2), Ile(4)]arginine vasopressin

A Strategy To Prepare Peptide Heterodimers in the Solid Phase with an Acid-Labile Linker

The currently synthetic methods of peptide heterodimer involve tedious synthesis and purification steps. An acid-labile traceless linker was prepared, which is highly compatible with the Fmoc strategy and could be used to prepare peptide heterodimer on resin. The linker could be cleaved concomitantly with peptide cleavage, and two model heterodimers were synthesized. The proposed synthesis procedure is simple, straightforward, and provides great convenience for preparing disulfide-linked peptide heterodimers.

Synthesis and characterization of the 47-residue heterodimeric antimicrobial peptide distinctin, featuring directed disulfide bridge formation

Distinctin, a 47-residue heterodimeric peptide with potent antimicrobial activity, comprises two monomeric units linked covalently by a disulfide bond between Cys19 from the 22-residue A chain and Cys23 from the 25-residue B chain. Previous synthetic strategies involved assemblies of the two individual chains, followed by their co-oxidation to form the connecting disulfide bridge, and resulted in a mixture of three species: two homodimers and one heterodimer. Here, we report synthesis of exclusively heterodimeric distinctin, using recently developed tactics for directed disulfide bridge formation. Material prepared this way was characterized and found to be suitable for more detailed structural studies.