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Area of Science:

  • Organic Chemistry
  • Medicinal Chemistry
  • Biochemistry

Background:

  • Peptide macrocyclization is crucial for developing novel therapeutics.
  • Existing methods often lack efficiency, site-specificity, or broad applicability.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a general synthetic platform for macrocyclization of unprotected peptide libraries.
  • To enable rapid diversity-oriented synthesis of hybrid macrocyclic peptides.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized SNAr reaction between cysteine thiolates and perfluoroaromatic linkers for side-chain macrocyclization.
  • Developed a complementary reverse strategy involving modification of cysteine residues followed by dithiol linker conjugation.
  • Screened 14 peptides with 7 linkers, enabling scanning of cysteine residues from i, i+1 to i, i+14 sites.

Main Results:

  • Successfully generated 98 macrocyclic products using the developed platform.
  • Demonstrated the convergent, site-independent, and modular nature of the synthetic strategies.
  • Achieved rapid synthesis of hybrid macrocyclic peptide libraries with diverse chemical and structural features.

Conclusions:

  • The described synthetic platform offers a powerful and flexible approach for macrocyclic peptide library generation.
  • The SNAr reaction's chemoselectivity and the platform's modularity facilitate the creation of complex peptide-based molecules.
  • This methodology holds significant potential for drug discovery and chemical biology research.