Solid-phase synthesis, cyclization, and site-specific functionalization of aziridine-containing tetrapeptides. 2017

Benjamin K W Chung, and Christopher J White, and Andrei K Yudin
NuChem Therapeutics, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Cyclic tetrapeptides comprise a potent and selective class of molecules with a wide range of biological activities, including the phytotoxic activity of tentoxin and the histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitory effects of chlamydocin. The incorporation of a functional aziridine group within cyclic peptides enables their conformational control and allows for late-stage and site-selective functionalization of these molecules, thereby creating the potential for covalent protein labeling. This protocol describes the solid-phase synthesis, cyclization, and site-specific structural modification of aziridine-containing tetrapeptides. The linear precursors are assembled by solid-phase peptide synthesis using Fmoc-protected amino acid building blocks, followed by head-to-tail peptide cyclization. Cyclization is performed using a slow reverse-addition method that prevents the formation of undesired higher-order cyclo-oligomeric side products. Site-specific structural modification of the resulting macrocycles is described using sodium azide or thiophenol as representative examples. It requires ∼4 d to prepare peptide macrocycles from their respective Fmoc-protected amino acid starting materials, an improvement upon the 3 weeks required for conventional solution-phase methods. This protocol also addresses important considerations regarding the handling of these compounds, whose electrophilic aziridine functionalities can otherwise be prone to undesired side reactions. With recent developments in aziridine-containing macrocyclic peptide synthesis and the potential for covalent protein labeling, these scaffolds represent a valuable addition to many screening libraries, and we expect that access to these macrocycles will facilitate efforts in drug discovery and molecular probe development.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D010456 Peptides, Cyclic Peptides whose amino acid residues are linked together forming a circular chain. Some of them are ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; some are biosynthesized non-ribosomally (PEPTIDE BIOSYNTHESIS, NON-RIBOSOMAL). Circular Peptide,Cyclic Peptide,Cyclic Peptides,Cyclopeptide,Orbitide,Circular Peptides,Cyclopeptides,Orbitides,Peptide, Circular,Peptide, Cyclic,Peptides, Circular
D003500 Cyclization Changing an open-chain hydrocarbon to a closed ring. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 5th ed) Cyclizations
D001388 Aziridines Saturated azacyclopropane compounds. They include compounds with substitutions on CARBON or NITROGEN atoms. Ethyleneimines,Azacyclopropanes, Saturated,Dimethyleneimines,Saturated Azacyclopropanes
D060327 Solid-Phase Synthesis Techniques Techniques used to synthesize chemicals using molecular substrates that are bound to a solid surface. Typically a series of reactions are conducted on the bound substrate that results in either the covalent attachment of specific moieties or the modification of existing function groups. These techniques offer an advantage to those involving solution reactions in that the substrate compound does not have to be isolated and purified between the reaction steps. Solid-Phase Synthesis,Peptide Synthesis, Solid-Phase,Solid-Phase Nucleotide Synthesis,Solid-Phase Nucleotide Synthesis Techniques,Solid-Phase Peptide Synthesis,Solid-Phase Peptide Synthesis Techniques,Solid-Phase Synthesis Methods,Synthesis, Solid-Phase,Method, Solid-Phase Synthesis,Methods, Solid-Phase Synthesis,Nucleotide Syntheses, Solid-Phase,Nucleotide Synthesis, Solid-Phase,Peptide Syntheses, Solid-Phase,Peptide Synthesis, Solid Phase,Solid Phase Nucleotide Synthesis,Solid Phase Nucleotide Synthesis Techniques,Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis,Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis Techniques,Solid Phase Synthesis,Solid Phase Synthesis Methods,Solid Phase Synthesis Techniques,Solid-Phase Nucleotide Syntheses,Solid-Phase Peptide Syntheses,Solid-Phase Syntheses,Solid-Phase Synthesis Method,Solid-Phase Synthesis Technique,Syntheses, Solid-Phase,Syntheses, Solid-Phase Nucleotide,Syntheses, Solid-Phase Peptide,Synthesis Method, Solid-Phase,Synthesis Methods, Solid-Phase,Synthesis Technique, Solid-Phase,Synthesis Techniques, Solid-Phase,Synthesis, Solid Phase,Synthesis, Solid-Phase Nucleotide,Synthesis, Solid-Phase Peptide,Technique, Solid-Phase Synthesis,Techniques, Solid-Phase Synthesis

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