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Split-and-pool Synthesis and Characterization of Peptide Tertiary Amide Library
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Beta-amino acid-containing hybrid peptides--new opportunities in peptidomimetics
Marie-Isabel Aguilar1, Anthony W Purcell, Romila Devi
1Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Monash University, PO Box 13d, Victoria, 3800, Australia.
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
|August 31, 2007
Abstract:
Hybrid peptides consisting of alpha-amino acids with judiciously placed beta-amino acids show great promise as peptidomimetics in an increasing range of therapeutic applications. This reflects a combination of increased stability, high specificity and relative ease of synthesis.
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