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Chen FJ, Pinnette N, Yang F, Gao J. A Cysteine-Directed Proximity-Driven Crosslinking Method for Native Peptide Bicyclization. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2023; 62:e202306813. [PMID: 37285100 PMCID: PMC10527288 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202306813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2023] [Revised: 06/02/2023] [Accepted: 06/05/2023] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
Abstract
Efficient and site-specific modification of native peptides and proteins is desirable for synthesizing antibody-drug conjugates as well as for constructing chemically modified peptide libraries using genetically encoded platforms such as phage display. In particular, there is much interest in efficient multicyclization of native peptides due to the appeals of multicyclic peptides as therapeutics. However, conventional approaches for multicyclic peptide synthesis require orthogonal protecting groups or non-proteinogenic clickable handles. Herein, we report a cysteine-directed proximity-driven strategy for the constructing bicyclic peptides from simple natural peptide precursors. This linear to bicycle transformation initiates with rapid cysteine labeling, which then triggers proximity-driven amine-selective cyclization. This bicyclization proceeds rapidly under physiologic conditions, yielding bicyclic peptides with a Cys-Lys-Cys, Lys-Cys-Lys or N-terminus-Cys-Cys stapling pattern. We demonstrate the utility and power of this strategy by constructing bicyclic peptides fused to proteins as well as to the M13 phage, paving the way to phage display of novel bicyclic peptide libraries.
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- Fa-Jie Chen
- Department of Chemistry, Boston College, Merkert Chemistry Center, 2609 Beacon Street, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Boston College, Merkert Chemistry Center, 2609 Beacon Street, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Boston College, Merkert Chemistry Center, 2609 Beacon Street, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Boston College, Merkert Chemistry Center, 2609 Beacon Street, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
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Wang S, Lu H. Ring-Opening Polymerization of Amino Acid N-Carboxyanhydrides with Unprotected/Reactive Side Groups. I. d-Penicillamine N-Carboxyanhydride. ACS Macro Lett 2023; 12:555-562. [PMID: 37041004 DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.3c00065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/13/2023]
Abstract
The ring-opening (co)polymerization (ROP) of N-carboxyanhydride (NCA) monomers bearing unprotected/reactive side groups is rare and challenging. Here, we report the ROP of a d-penicillamine NCA (Pen-NCA) monomer for the synthesis of tertiary thiol-functionalized (co)polypeptides. Through judicious selection of reaction solvents and the use of benzoic acid as an additive in the ROP, the intramolecular isomerization side reactions of Pen-NCA are suppressed, generating homo- and copolypeptides with improved yield, high molecular weight, and narrow molecular weight distributions. Successful postpolymerization modifications of the d-Pen-containing copolypeptides on the tertiary thiols are achieved with high efficiency through thiol-Michael, SN2, and nitrosylation reactions. This work provides an efficient protection-free approach to generating functional polypeptides and creates a fundamental understanding for Pen-NCA chemistry.
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- Shuo Wang
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China
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Lu S, Fan S, Xiao S, Li J, Zhang S, Wu Y, Kong C, Zhuang J, Liu H, Zhao Y, Wu C. Disulfide-Directed Multicyclic Peptide Libraries for the Discovery of Peptide Ligands and Drugs. J Am Chem Soc 2023; 145:1964-1972. [PMID: 36633218 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c12462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
Abstract
Multicyclic peptides with stable 3D structures are a kind of novel and promising peptide formats for drug design and discovery as they have the potential to combine the best characteristics of small molecules and proteins. However, the development of multicyclic peptides is largely limited to naturally occurring products. It remains a big challenge to develop multicyclic peptides with new structures and functions without recourse to the existing natural scaffolds. Here, we report a general and robust method relying on the utility of new disulfide-directing motifs for designing and discovering diverse multicyclic peptides with potent protein-binding capability. These peptides, referred to as disulfide-directed multicyclic peptides (DDMPs), are tolerant to extensive sequence manipulations and variations of disulfide-pairing frameworks, enabling the development of de novo DDMP libraries useful for ligand and drug discovery. This study opens a new avenue for creating a new generation of multicyclic peptides in sequence and structure space inaccessible by natural scaffolds, thus would greatly benefit the field of peptide drug discovery.
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- Shuaimin Lu
- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P. R. China
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Wu Y, Fan S, Dong M, Li J, Kong C, Zhuang J, Meng X, Lu S, Zhao Y, Wu C. Structure-guided design of CPPC-paired disulfide-rich peptide libraries for ligand and drug discovery. Chem Sci 2022; 13:7780-7789. [PMID: 35865895 PMCID: PMC9258321 DOI: 10.1039/d2sc00924b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2022] [Accepted: 05/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
Abstract
Peptides constrained through multiple disulfides (or disulfide-rich peptides, DRPs) have been an emerging frontier for ligand and drug discovery. Such peptides have the potential to combine the binding capability of biologics with the stability and bioavailability of smaller molecules. However, DRPs with stable three-dimensional (3D) structures are usually of natural origin or engineered from natural ones. Here, we report the discovery and identification of CPPC (cysteine–proline–proline–cysteine) motif-directed DRPs with stable 3D structures (i.e., CPPC–DRPs). A range of new CPPC–DRPs were designed or selected from either random or structure–convergent peptide libraries. Thus, for the first time we revealed that the CPPC–DRPs can maintain diverse 3D structures by taking advantage of constraints from unique dimeric CPPC mini-loops, including irregular structures and regular α-helix and β-sheet folds. New CPPC–DRPs that can specifically bind the receptors (CD28) on the cell surface were also successfully discovered and identified using our DRP-discovery platform. Overall, this study provides the basis for accessing an unconventional peptide structure space previously inaccessible by natural DRPs and computational designs, inspiring the development of new peptide ligands and therapeutics. CPPC-paired disulfide-rich peptides with stable 3D structures have been discovered through rational library design and screening, providing unconventional peptide scaffolds for the development of new peptide therapeutics.![]()
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- Yapei Wu
- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University Xiamen 361005 P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University Xiamen 361005 P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University Xiamen 361005 P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University Xiamen 361005 P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University Xiamen 361005 P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University Xiamen 361005 P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University Xiamen 361005 P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University Xiamen 361005 P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University Xiamen 361005 P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University Xiamen 361005 P.R. China
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Yao S, Moyer A, Zheng Y, Shen Y, Meng X, Yuan C, Zhao Y, Yao H, Baker D, Wu C. De novo design and directed folding of disulfide-bridged peptide heterodimers. Nat Commun 2022; 13:1539. [PMID: 35318337 PMCID: PMC8941120 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29210-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2021] [Accepted: 03/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
Peptide heterodimers are prevalent in nature, which are not only functional macromolecules but molecular tools for chemical and synthetic biology. Computational methods have also been developed to design heterodimers of advanced functions. However, these peptide heterodimers are usually formed through noncovalent interactions, which are prone to dissociate and subject to concentration-dependent nonspecific aggregation. Heterodimers crosslinked with interchain disulfide bonds are more stable, but it represents a formidable challenge for both the computational design of heterodimers and the manipulation of disulfide pairing for heterodimer synthesis and applications. Here, we report the design, synthesis and application of interchain disulfide-bridged peptide heterodimers with mutual orthogonality by combining computational de novo designs with a directed disulfide pairing strategy. These heterodimers can be used as not only scaffolds for generating functional molecules but chemical tools or building blocks for protein labeling and construction of crosslinking hybrids. This study thus opens the door for using this unexplored dimeric structure space for many biological applications.
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- Sicong Yao
- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, P.R. China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, P.R. China
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- Institute of Molecular Enzymology, School of Biology and Basic Medical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, P.R. China
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- Institute of Molecular Enzymology, School of Biology and Basic Medical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, P.R. China.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, P.R. China.
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Almohammed S, Fularz A, Kanoun MB, Goumri-Said S, Aljaafari A, Rodriguez BJ, Rice JH. Structural Transition-Induced Raman Enhancement in Bioinspired Diphenylalanine Peptide Nanotubes. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2022; 14:12504-12514. [PMID: 35254049 PMCID: PMC8931724 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c22770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2021] [Accepted: 02/18/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
Abstract
Semiconducting materials are increasingly proposed as alternatives to noble metal nanomaterials to enhance Raman scattering. We demonstrate that bioinspired semiconducting diphenylalanine peptide nanotubes annealed through a reported structural transition can support Raman detection of 10-7 M concentrations for a range of molecules including mononucleotides. The enhancement is attributed to the introduction of electronic states below the conduction band that facilitate charge transfer to the analyte molecule. These results show that organic semiconductor-based materials can serve as platforms for enhanced Raman scattering for chemical sensing. As the sensor is metal-free, the enhancement is achieved without the introduction of electromagnetic surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy.
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- Sawsan Almohammed
- School
of Physics, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin D04 V1W8, Ireland
- Conway
Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College,
Dublin, Belfield, Dublin D04 V1W8, Ireland
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- School
of Physics, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin D04 V1W8, Ireland
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- Department
of Physics, College of Science, King Faisal
University, P.O. Box 400, Al-Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia
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- Physics
Department, College of Science and General Studies, Alfaisal University, P.O. Box 50927, Riyadh 11533, Saudi Arabia
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- Department
of Physics, College of Science, King Faisal
University, P.O. Box 400, Al-Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia
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- School
of Physics, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin D04 V1W8, Ireland
- Conway
Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College,
Dublin, Belfield, Dublin D04 V1W8, Ireland
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- School
of Physics, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin D04 V1W8, Ireland
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Dong H, Li J, Liu H, Lu S, Wu J, Zhang Y, Yin Y, Zhao Y, Wu C. Design and Ribosomal Incorporation of Noncanonical Disulfide-Directing Motifs for the Development of Multicyclic Peptide Libraries. J Am Chem Soc 2022; 144:5116-5125. [PMID: 35289603 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c00216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
Abstract
The engineering of naturally occurring disulfide-rich peptides (DRPs) has been significantly hampered by the difficulty of manipulating disulfide pairing. New DRPs that take advantage of fold-directing motifs and noncanonical thiol-bearing amino acids are easy-to-fold with expected disulfide connectivities, representing a new class of scaffolds for the development of peptide ligands and therapeutics. However, the limited diversity of the scaffolds and particularly the use of noncanonical amino acids [e.g., penicillamine (Pen)] that are difficult to be translated by ribosomes greatly hamper the further development and application of these DRPs. Here, we designed and synthesized noncanonical bisthiol motifs bearing sterically obstructed thiol groups analogous to the Pen thiol to direct the folding of peptides into specific bicyclic and tricyclic structures. These bisthiol motifs can be ribosomally incorporated into peptides through a commercially available PURE system integrated with genetic code reprograming, which enables, for the first time, the in vitro expression of bicyclic peptides with two noncanonical and orthogonal disulfide bonds. We further constructed a bicyclic peptide library encoded by mRNA, with which new bicyclic peptide ligands with nanomolar affinity to proteins were successfully selected. Therefore, this study provides a new, general, and robust method for discovering de novo DRPs with new structures and functions not derived from natural peptides, which would greatly benefit the field of peptide drug discovery.
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- Huilei Dong
- The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P.R. China
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- The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P.R. China
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- The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P.R. China
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- The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, P.R. China
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- The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P.R. China
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- The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P.R. China
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Hayes HC, Luk LYP, Tsai YH. Approaches for peptide and protein cyclisation. Org Biomol Chem 2021; 19:3983-4001. [PMID: 33978044 PMCID: PMC8114279 DOI: 10.1039/d1ob00411e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2021] [Accepted: 04/01/2021] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
Abstract
The cyclisation of polypeptides can play a crucial role in exerting biological functions, maintaining stability under harsh conditions and conferring proteolytic resistance, as demonstrated both in nature and in the laboratory. To date, various approaches have been reported for polypeptide cyclisation. These approaches range from the direct linkage of N- and C- termini to the connection of amino acid side chains, which can be applied both in reaction vessels and in living systems. In this review, we categorise the cyclisation approaches into chemical methods (e.g. direct backbone cyclisation, native chemical ligation, aldehyde-based ligations, bioorthogonal reactions, disulphide formation), enzymatic methods (e.g. subtiligase variants, sortases, asparaginyl endopeptidases, transglutaminases, non-ribosomal peptide synthetases) and protein tags (e.g. inteins, engineered protein domains for isopeptide bond formation). The features of each approach and the considerations for selecting an appropriate method of cyclisation are discussed.
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- Heather C Hayes
- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, UK
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- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, UK and Cardiff Catalysis Institute, School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT.
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- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, UK and Institute of Molecular Physiology, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, Shenzhen 518132, China.
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Aridoss G, Kim D, Kim JI, Kang JE. Ziconotide (
ω‐conotoxin MVIIA
)—Efficient solid‐phase synthesis of a linear precursor peptide and its strategic native folding. Pept Sci (Hoboken) 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/pep2.24223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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- Gopalakrishnan Aridoss
- Peptide Smart Process Department Anygen Co., Ltd Cheongju‐si Chungcheongbuk‐do South Korea
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- Peptide Smart Process Department Anygen Co., Ltd Cheongju‐si Chungcheongbuk‐do South Korea
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- Peptide Smart Process Department Anygen Co., Ltd Cheongju‐si Chungcheongbuk‐do South Korea
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- Peptide Smart Process Department Anygen Co., Ltd Cheongju‐si Chungcheongbuk‐do South Korea
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Kobayashi K, Taguchi A, Cui Y, Shida H, Muguruma K, Takayama K, Taniguchi A, Hayashi Y. “On‐Resin” Disulfide Peptide Synthesis with Methyl 3‐Nitro‐2‐pyridinesulfenate. European J Org Chem 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.202001517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Kiyotaka Kobayashi
- Department of Medicinal chemistry School of Pharmacy Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences 1432-1 Horinouchi Hachioji, Tokyo 192–0392 Japan
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- Department of Medicinal chemistry School of Pharmacy Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences 1432-1 Horinouchi Hachioji, Tokyo 192–0392 Japan
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- Department of Medicinal chemistry School of Pharmacy Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences 1432-1 Horinouchi Hachioji, Tokyo 192–0392 Japan
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- Department of Medicinal chemistry School of Pharmacy Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences 1432-1 Horinouchi Hachioji, Tokyo 192–0392 Japan
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- Department of Medicinal chemistry School of Pharmacy Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences 1432-1 Horinouchi Hachioji, Tokyo 192–0392 Japan
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- Department of Medicinal chemistry School of Pharmacy Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences 1432-1 Horinouchi Hachioji, Tokyo 192–0392 Japan
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- Department of Medicinal chemistry School of Pharmacy Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences 1432-1 Horinouchi Hachioji, Tokyo 192–0392 Japan
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- Department of Medicinal chemistry School of Pharmacy Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences 1432-1 Horinouchi Hachioji, Tokyo 192–0392 Japan
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Lu S, Wu Y, Li J, Meng X, Hu C, Zhao Y, Wu C. Directed Disulfide Pairing and Folding of Peptides for the De Novo Development of Multicyclic Peptide Libraries. J Am Chem Soc 2020; 142:16285-16291. [PMID: 32914969 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c06044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
Abstract
Disulfide-rich peptides (DRPs) have been an emerging frontier for drug discovery. There have been two DRPs approved as drugs (i.e., Ziconotide and Linaclotide), and many others are undergoing preclinical studies or in clinical trials. All of these DRPs are of nature origin or derived from natural peptides. It is still a challenge to design new DRPs without recourse to natural scaffolds due to the difficulty in handling the disulfide pairing. Here we developed a simple and robust strategy for directing the disulfide pairing and folding of peptides with up to six cysteine residues. Our strategy exploits the dimeric pairing of CPPC (cysteine-proline-proline-cysteine) motifs for directing disulfide formation, and DRPs with different multicyclic topologies were designed and synthesized by regulating the patterns of CPPC motifs and cysteine residues in peptides. As neither sequence manipulations nor unnatural amino acids are involved, the designed DRPs can be used as templates for the de novo development of biosynthetic multicyclic peptide libraries, enabling selection of DRPs with new functions directly from fully randomized sequences. We believe that this work represents as an important step toward the discovery and design of new multicyclic peptide ligands and therapeutics with structures not derived from natural scaffolds.
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- Shuaimin Lu
- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P.R. China
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Huang Z, Wu Y, Dong H, Zhao Y, Wu C. Design and Synthesis of Disulfide-Rich Peptides with Orthogonal Disulfide Pairing Motifs. J Org Chem 2020; 85:11475-11481. [PMID: 32786636 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.0c01600] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Disulfide-rich peptides (DRPs) are a class of peptides that are constrained through two or more disulfide bonds. Though natural DRPs have been extensively exploited for developing protein binders or potential therapeutics, their synthesis and re-engineering to bind new targets are not straightforward due to difficulties in handling the disulfide pairing problem. Rationally designed DRPs with an intrinsically orthogonal disulfide pairing propensity provide an alternative to the natural scaffolds for developing functional DRPs. Herein we report the use of tandem CXPen/PenXC motifs ((C) cysteine; (Pen) penicillamine; (X) any residue) for directing the oxidative folding of peptides. Diverse tricyclic peptides were designed and synthesized by varying the pattern of C/Pen residues and incorporating a tandem CXPen/PenXC motif into peptides. The folding of these peptides was determined primarily by C/Pen patterns and tolerated to sequence manipulations. The applicability of the designed C/Pen-DRPs was demonstrated by designing protein binders using an epitope grafting strategy. This study thus demonstrates the potential of using orthogonal disulfide pairing to design DRP scaffolds with new structures and functions, which would greatly benefit the development of multicyclic peptide ligands and therapeutics.
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- Zirong Huang
- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, People's Republic of China
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Qi P, Sun F, Chen N, Du H. Cross-Dehydrogenative Coupling of Azoarenes with Dialkyl Disulfides. J Org Chem 2020; 85:8588-8596. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.0c00953] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Peng Qi
- Department of Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, People’s Republic of China
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Juhász J, Gáspári Z, Pongor S. Structure and Oxidative Folding of AAI, the Major Alfa-Amylase Inhibitor From Amaranth Seeds. Front Chem 2020; 8:180. [PMID: 32257998 PMCID: PMC7090091 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2020.00180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2019] [Accepted: 02/26/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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AAI, the major alpha-amylase inhibitor (AAI) present in the seeds of the Mexican crop plant Amaranthus hypocondriacus is a 32-residue-long polypeptide with three disulfide bridges. Its structure is most closely related to the plant amylase inhibitor subfamily of knottins characterized by a topological knot formed by one disulfide bridge threading through a loop formed by the peptide chain as well as a short three-stranded beta sandwich core. AAI is specific against insect amylases and does not act on corresponding human or mammalian enzymes. It was found that the oxidative folding of AAI seems to follow a hirudine-like pathway with many non-native intermediates, but notably it proceeds through a major folding intermediate (MFI) that contains a vicinal disulfide bridge. Based on a review of the pertinent literature, the known vicinal disulfides in native proteins as well as well as the network of disulfide interchanges, we propose that MFI is a kinetic trap corresponding to a compact molten globule-like state which constrains the peptide chain to a smaller number of conformations that in turn can be rapidly funneled toward the native state.
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- János Juhász
- Faculty of Information Technology and Bionics, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary.,3in-PPCU Research Group, Faculty of Information Technology and Bionics, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Esztergom, Hungary
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- Faculty of Information Technology and Bionics, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Faculty of Information Technology and Bionics, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary
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McCarthy S, Robinson J, Thalassinos K, Tabor AB. A Chemical Biology Approach to Probing the Folding Pathways of the Inhibitory Cystine Knot (ICK) Peptide ProTx-II. Front Chem 2020; 8:228. [PMID: 32309273 PMCID: PMC7145985 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2020.00228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2020] [Accepted: 03/10/2020] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Peptide toxins that adopt the inhibitory cystine knot (ICK) scaffold have very stable three-dimensional structures as a result of the conformational constraints imposed by the configuration of the three disulfide bonds that are the hallmark of this fold. Understanding the oxidative folding pathways of these complex peptides, many of which are important therapeutic leads, is important in order to devise reliable synthetic routes to correctly folded, biologically active peptides. Previous research on the ICK peptide ProTx-II has shown that in the absence of an equilibrating redox buffer, misfolded intermediates form that prevent the formation of the native disulfide bond configuration. In this paper, we used tandem mass spectrometry to examine these misfolded peptides, and identified two non-native singly bridged peptides, one with a Cys(III)-Cys(IV) linkage and one with a Cys(V)-Cys(VI) linkage. Based on these results, we propose that the C-terminus of ProTx-II has an important role in initiating the folding of this peptide. To test this hypothesis, we have also studied the folding pathways of analogs of ProTx-II containing the disulfide-bond directing group penicillamine (Pen) under the same conditions. We find that placing Pen residues at the C-terminus of the ProTx-II analogs directs the folding pathway away from the singly bridged misfolded intermediates that represent a kinetic trap for the native sequence, and allows a fully oxidized final product to be formed with three disulfide bridges. However, multiple two-disulfide peptides were also produced, indicating that further study is required to fully control the folding pathways of this modified scaffold.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, United Kingdom.,Division of Biosciences, Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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This Review explores the class of plant-derived macrocyclic peptides called cyclotides. We include an account of their discovery, characterization, and distribution in the plant kingdom as well as a detailed analysis of their sequences and structures, biosynthesis and chemical synthesis, biological functions, and applications. These macrocyclic peptides are around 30 amino acids in size and are characterized by their head-to-tail cyclic backbone and cystine knot motif, which render them to be exceptionally stable, with resistance to thermal or enzymatic degradation. Routes to their chemical synthesis have been developed over the past two decades, and this capability has facilitated a wide range of mutagenesis and structure-activity relationship studies. In turn, these studies have both led to an increased understanding of their mechanisms of action as well as facilitated a range of applications in agriculture and medicine, as ecofriendly crop protection agents, and as drug leads or scaffolds for pharmaceutical design. Our overall objective in this Review is to provide readers with a comprehensive overview of cyclotides that we hope will stimulate further work on this fascinating family of peptides.
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- Simon J de Veer
- Institute for Molecular Bioscience , The University of Queensland , Brisbane , Queensland 4072 , Australia
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- Institute for Molecular Bioscience , The University of Queensland , Brisbane , Queensland 4072 , Australia
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- Institute for Molecular Bioscience , The University of Queensland , Brisbane , Queensland 4072 , Australia
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Dong H, Meng X, Zheng X, Cheng X, Zheng Y, Zhao Y, Wu C. Design and Synthesis of Cross-Link-Dense Peptides by Manipulating Regioselective Bisthioether Cross-Linking and Orthogonal Disulfide Pairing. J Org Chem 2019; 84:5187-5194. [PMID: 30895794 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.9b00164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Existing disulfide-rich peptides, both naturally occurring and de novo designed, only represent a tiny amount of the possible sequence space because natural evolution and de novo design only keep sequences that are structurally approachable by correct disulfide pairings. To bypass this limitation for designing new peptide scaffolds beyond the natural sequence space, we dedicate to developing novel disulfide-rich peptides with predefined disulfide pairing patterns irrelevant to primary sequences. However, most of these designed peptides still suffer from disulfide rearrangements to at least one to three possible isomers. Here, we report a general and reliable strategy for the design and synthesis of a range of structurally diverse cross-link-dense peptide (CDP) scaffolds with two orthogonal disulfide bonds and a bisthioether bridge that are not subject to disulfide isomerizations. Altering the pattern of cysteine and penicillamine generates hundreds of different CDP scaffolds tolerant to extensive sequence manipulations. This work thus provides many useful scaffolds for the design of functional molecules such as protein binders with improved proteolytic stability (e.g., designed by epitope grafting).
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- Huilei Dong
- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation , Xiamen University , Xiamen 361005 , P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation , Xiamen University , Xiamen 361005 , P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation , Xiamen University , Xiamen 361005 , P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation , Xiamen University , Xiamen 361005 , P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation , Xiamen University , Xiamen 361005 , P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation , Xiamen University , Xiamen 361005 , P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation , Xiamen University , Xiamen 361005 , P.R. China
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Cabalteja CC, Mihalko DS, Seth Horne W. Heterogeneous-Backbone Foldamer Mimics of a Computationally Designed, Disulfide-Rich Miniprotein. Chembiochem 2019; 20:103-110. [PMID: 30326175 PMCID: PMC6314896 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201800558] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2018] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Disulfide-rich peptides have found widespread use in the development of bioactive agents; however, low proteolytic stability and the difficulty of exerting synthetic control over chain topology present barriers to their application in some systems. Herein, we report a method that enables the creation of artificial backbone ("foldamer") mimics of compact, disulfide-rich tertiary folds. Systematic replacement of a subset of natural α-residues with various artificial building blocks in the context of a computationally designed prototype sequence leads to "heterogeneous-backbone" variants that undergo clean oxidative folding, adopt tertiary structures indistinguishable from that of the prototype, and enjoy proteolytic protection beyond that inherent to the topologically constrained scaffold. Collectively, these results demonstrate systematic backbone substitution to be a viable method to engineer the properties of disulfide-rich sequences and expands the repertoire of protein mimicry by foldamers to an exciting new structural class.
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- Chino C. Cabalteja
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, 219 Parkman Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15260 (USA)
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, 219 Parkman Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15260 (USA)
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, 219 Parkman Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15260 (USA)
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Zheng Y, Meng X, Wu Y, Zhao Y, Wu C. De novo design of constrained and sequence-independent peptide scaffolds with topologically-formidable disulfide connectivities. Chem Sci 2018; 9:569-575. [PMID: 29629120 PMCID: PMC5869988 DOI: 10.1039/c7sc03956e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2017] [Accepted: 11/17/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Disulfide-rich peptides are interesting scaffolds for drug design and discovery. However, peptide scaffolds constrained by disulfide bonds, either naturally occurring or computationally designed, have been suffering from the elusive (oxidative) folding behavior complying with Anfinsen's dogma, which strongly restricts their applicability in bioactive peptide design and discovery; because when primary peptide sequences are extensively manipulated, their disulfide connectivities might become scrambled. Here we present the design of cysteine/penicillamine (C/Pen)-mixed peptide frameworks that are capable of folding into specific regioisomers without dependence on primary amino acid sequences. Even certain folds that are considered to be topologically formidable can be generated in high yields. Currently, almost all disulfide-rich peptide scaffolds are vitally correlated to primary amino acid sequences, but ours are exceptional. These scaffolds should be of particular interest for further designing constrained peptides with new structures and functions, and more importantly, the ultimately designed peptides would not suffer from general oxidative folding problems.
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- Yiwu Zheng
- The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation , State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces , Department of Chemistry , College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Xiamen University , Xiamen , 361005 , P. R. China .
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- The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation , State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces , Department of Chemistry , College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Xiamen University , Xiamen , 361005 , P. R. China .
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- The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation , State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces , Department of Chemistry , College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Xiamen University , Xiamen , 361005 , P. R. China .
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- The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation , State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces , Department of Chemistry , College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Xiamen University , Xiamen , 361005 , P. R. China .
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- The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation , State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces , Department of Chemistry , College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Xiamen University , Xiamen , 361005 , P. R. China .
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Zha M, Lin P, Yao H, Zhao Y, Wu C. A phage display-based strategy for the de novo creation of disulfide-constrained and isomer-free bicyclic peptide affinity reagents. Chem Commun (Camb) 2018; 54:4029-4032. [DOI: 10.1039/c7cc09142g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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We report a phage-screening strategy for the development of bicyclic peptide ligands constrained with two sterically different and isomerically forbidden noncanonical disulfide bridges without elaborate chemical modifications and recourses to genetic code reprogramming.
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- Mirao Zha
- Department of Chemistry
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces
- Xiamen University
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- Department of Chemistry
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces
- Xiamen University
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- Department of Chemistry
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces
- Xiamen University
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- Department of Chemistry
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces
- Xiamen University
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- Department of Chemistry
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces
- Xiamen University
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Wang J, Zha M, Fei Q, Liu W, Zhao Y, Wu C. Peptide Macrocycles Developed from Precisely Regulated Multiple Cyclization of Unprotected Peptides. Chemistry 2017; 23:15150-15155. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201703139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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- Jinghui Wang
- Department of Chemistry; College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces; The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical; Analysis and Instrumentation; Xiamen University; Xiamen 361005 P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry; College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces; The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical; Analysis and Instrumentation; Xiamen University; Xiamen 361005 P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry; College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces; The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical; Analysis and Instrumentation; Xiamen University; Xiamen 361005 P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry; College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces; The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical; Analysis and Instrumentation; Xiamen University; Xiamen 361005 P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry; College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces; The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical; Analysis and Instrumentation; Xiamen University; Xiamen 361005 P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry; College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces; The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical; Analysis and Instrumentation; Xiamen University; Xiamen 361005 P.R. China
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Bartolami E, Knoops J, Bessin Y, Fossépré M, Chamieh J, Dumy P, Surin M, Ulrich S. One-Pot Self-Assembly of Peptide-Based Cage-Type Nanostructures Using Orthogonal Ligations. Chemistry 2017; 23:14323-14331. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201702974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2017] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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- Eline Bartolami
- Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron (IBMM), UMR 5247, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, ENSCM; Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier; 8 Rue de l'Ecole Normale 34296 Montpellier cedex 5 France
- Present address: Department of Organic Chemistry; University of Geneva; 30 Quai Ernest Ansermet 1211 Geneva 4 Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Chemistry of Novel Materials; University of Mons-UMONS; 20, Place du Parc 7000 Mons Belgium
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- Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron (IBMM), UMR 5247, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, ENSCM; Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier; 8 Rue de l'Ecole Normale 34296 Montpellier cedex 5 France
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- Laboratory for Chemistry of Novel Materials; University of Mons-UMONS; 20, Place du Parc 7000 Mons Belgium
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- Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron (IBMM), UMR 5247, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, ENSCM; Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier; 8 Rue de l'Ecole Normale 34296 Montpellier cedex 5 France
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- Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron (IBMM), UMR 5247, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, ENSCM; Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier; 8 Rue de l'Ecole Normale 34296 Montpellier cedex 5 France
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- Laboratory for Chemistry of Novel Materials; University of Mons-UMONS; 20, Place du Parc 7000 Mons Belgium
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- Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron (IBMM), UMR 5247, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, ENSCM; Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier; 8 Rue de l'Ecole Normale 34296 Montpellier cedex 5 France
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