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Solid Phase Synthesis of a Functionalized Bis-Peptide Using "Safety Catch" Methodology
Published on: May 15, 2012
Modular solid-phase synthesis of electrophilic cysteine-selective ethynyl-phosphonamidate peptides
Sarah Hansen1,2, Jan Vincent V Arafiles1, Philipp Ochtrop1,2
1Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), Chemical Biology Department, Robert-Rössle-Str. 10, 13125 Berlin, Germany. hackenbe@fmp-berlin.de.
Abstract:
We report an efficient method to install electrophilic cysteine-selective ethynyl-phosphonamidates on peptides during Fmoc-based solid phase peptide synthesis (SPPS). By performing Staudinger-phosphonite reactions between different solid supported azido-peptides and varying ethynylphosphonites, we obtained ethynyl-phosphonamidate containing peptidic compounds after acidic deprotection, including an electrophilic cell-penetrating peptide that showed high efficiency as an additive for cellular delivery of proteins.

