Abstract
The cyclic amino acid surrogate 1 was designed to mimic the extended conformation of a peptide unit and to provide hydrogen bond donor and acceptor functions conducive to β-sheet formation. A convenient synthesis of this unit and solution and solid-phase methods for its incorporation into an oligomer alternating with peptide units have been devised. The resulting "@-tides", as these oligomers have been designated, show a high propensity for self-association in comparison to oligopeptides; insights into the structure and dynamical properties of their antiparallel dimers have been obtained by NMR.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 58-66 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Journal of the American Chemical Society |
| Volume | 124 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 9 Jan 2002 |
Keywords
- Kinetics
- Molecular Mimicry
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular
- Oligopeptides/chemistry
- Protein Structure, Secondary
- Pyridones/chemical synthesis
- Temperature