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Phenylisoserine: a versatile amino acid for the construction of novel beta-peptide structures
I A Motorina1, C Huel, E Quiniou
1UMR 176 CNRS, Laboratoire de Pharmacochimie, Institut Curie Section de Recherche, Batiment 110, Centre Universitaire, 91405 Orsay, France.
Abstract:
The N-Boc O-tert-butyldimethysilyl-substituted hexa-beta-peptide methyl ester 18 was constructed from the O-TBS ether of (-)-(2R, 3S)-phenylisoserine. By NMR, it was determined that this homo beta-peptide adopts a highly stable beta-strand-type secondary structure in chloroform solution, which is stabilized by both hydrophobic interactions involving the OTBS methyl groups of residues i and i + 2, and inter-(five-membered)/intra (six-membered)-residue H-bonding interactions. These interactions are systematically repeated along the peptide chain and, thereby, operate in concert to stabilize the observed conformation of 18.
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