- Aqueous phosphoric acid as a mild reagent for deprotection of the t-butoxycarbonyl group
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Aqueous phosphoric acid (85 wt%) is an efficient and mild reagent for the deprotection of N-BOC groups. Acid sensitive functionalities including benzyl and methyl esters, TBDMS ether, CBZ and isopropylidene groups are compatible with the reaction conditions. The reactions are high yielding, and the workup is convenient.
- Li, Bryan,Bemish, Raymond,Buzon, Richard A.,Chiu, Charles K.-F.,Colgan, Stephen T.,Kissel, William,Le, Tung,Leeman, Kyle R.,Newell, Lisa,Roth, Joshua
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- Extremely mild reagent for Boc deprotection applicable to the synthesis of peptides with thioamide linkages
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SnCl4 in organic solvents acts as an extremely mild reagent for Boc deprotection even in the presence of the acid-labile thioamide moiety with excellent yields.
- Frank, Robert,Schutkowski, Mike
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- Bioinspired thiophosphorodichloridate reagents for chemoselective histidine bioconjugation
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Site-selective bioconjugation to native protein residues is a powerful tool for protein functionalization, with cysteine and lysine side chains being the most common points for attachment owing to their high nucleophilicity. We now report a strategy for histidine modification using thiophosphorodichloridate reagents that mimic post-translational histidine phosphorylation, enabling fast and selective labeling of protein histidines under mild conditions where various payloads can be introduced via copper-assisted alkyne-azide cycloaddition (CuAAC) chemistry. We establish that these reagents are particularly effective at covalent modification of His-tags, which are common motifs to facilitate protein purification, as illustrated by selective attachment of polyarginine cargoes to enhance the uptake of proteins into living cells. This work provides a starting point for probing and enhancing protein function using histidine-directed chemistry.
- Jia, Shang,He, Dan,Chang, Christopher J.
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- Solution-Phase Fmoc-Based Peptide Synthesis for DNA-Encoded Chemical Libraries: Reaction Conditions, Protecting Group Strategies, and Pitfalls
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Peptide drug discovery has shown a resurgence since 2000, bringing 28 non-insulin therapeutics to the market compared to 56 since its first peptide drug, insulin, in 1923. While the main method of discovery has been biological display - phage, mRNA, and ribosome - the synthetic limitations of biological systems has restricted the depth of exploration of peptide chemical space. In contrast, DNA-encoded chemistry offers the synergy of large numbers and ribosome-independent synthetic flexibility for the fast and deeper exploration of the same space. Hence, as a bridge to building DNA-encoded chemical libraries (DECLs) of peptides, we have developed substrate-tolerant amide coupling reaction conditions for amino acid monomers, performed a coupling screen to illustrate such tolerance, developed protecting group strategies for relevant amino acids and reported the limitations thereof, developed a strategy for the coupling of α,α-disubstituted alkenyl amino acids relevant to all-hydrocarbon stapled peptide drug discovery, developed reaction conditions for the coupling of tripeptides likely to be used in DECL builds, and synthesized a fully deprotected DNA-decamer conjugate to illustrate the potency of the developed methodology for on-DNA peptide synthesis.
- Monty, Olivier B. C.,Simmons, Nicholas,Chamakuri, Srinivas,Matzuk, Martin M.,Young, Damian W.
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- Fungal Dioxygenase AsqJ Is Promiscuous and Bimodal: Substrate-Directed Formation of Quinolones versus Quinazolinones
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Previous studies showed that the FeII/α-ketoglutarate dependent dioxygenase AsqJ induces a skeletal rearrangement in viridicatin biosynthesis in Aspergillus nidulans, generating a quinolone scaffold from benzo[1,4]diazepine-2,5-dione substrates. We report that AsqJ catalyzes an additional, entirely different reaction, simply by a change in substituent in the benzodiazepinedione substrate. This new mechanism is established by substrate screening, application of functional probes, and computational analysis. AsqJ excises H2CO from the heterocyclic ring structure of suitable benzo[1,4]diazepine-2,5-dione substrates to generate quinazolinones. This novel AsqJ catalysis pathway is governed by a single substituent within the complex substrate. This unique substrate-directed reactivity of AsqJ enables the targeted biocatalytic generation of either quinolones or quinazolinones, two alkaloid frameworks of exceptional biomedical relevance.
- Einsiedler, Manuel,Jamieson, Cooper S.,Maskeri, Mark A.,Houk, Kendall N.,Gulder, Tobias A. M.
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- THIOPHOSPHORODICHLORIDATE REAGENTS FOR CHEMOSELECTIVE HISTIDINE BIOCONJUGATION
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Proteins are labeled by contacting the protein with a thiophosphorodichloridate reagent under conditions to effect chemoselective histidine conjugation. This technology provides numerous applications, including probing and enhancing protein function using histidine-directed chemistry. For example, our bioconjugation strategy can be used to generate bioconjugates on polyhistidine tags commonly found in recombinant proteins, as well as on single histidine residues. These bioconjugates, such as antibody-drug conjugates, immobilized antibodies or enzymes, PEGylated proteins and so on, can be used in pharmaceutics and diagnostics.
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- MgI2-chemoselective cleavage for removal of amino acid protecting groups: A fresh vision for peptide synthesis
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In the field of peptide synthesis, the key to a successful access to synthetic targets lies on a pertinent combination of protecting groups. Their choice is directed by their selective removal conditions. We present here the behavior of some of the most used protecting groups in peptide chemistry under experimental cleavage conditions, combining MgI2 with MW irradiation, using 2-Me-THF as a green solvent. In these experimental conditions, the benzyloxycarbonyl protecting group as well as the Merrifield resin can be re-considered in peptide chemistry.
- Berthet, Mathéo,Martinez, Jean,Parrot, Isabelle
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- Liquid-chromatography quantitative analysis of 20 amino acids after derivatization with FMOC-CI and its application to different origin Radix isatidis
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We developed a simple, rapid and reliable method for determination of 20 common amino acids based on derivatization with 9-fluorenylmethyl chloroformate (FMOC-CI) and RP-LC/UV, this method was first introduced into quantitative analysis of amino acids. The amino groups of amino acids were trapped with FMOC-CI to form amino acid-FMOC-Cl adducts which can be suitable for LC-UV. Chromatographic separation was performed on a C18 column with a mobile phase gradient consisting of acetonitrile and sodium acetate solution. This method was shown to be sensitive for 20 common amino acids. In the intra-day precisions assay, the range of RSDs was 3.21-7.67% with accuracies of 92.34-102.51%; for the inter-day precisions assay, the range of RSDs was 5.82-9.19% with accuracies of 90.25-100.63%. The results also indicated that solutions of amino acids-FMOC-Cl can be kept at room temperature for at least 24 h without showing significant losses in the quantified values. The validated method was successfully applied to the determination of major four kinds of amino acids in R. isatidis samples (Arg, Pro, Met and Val). The total content of amino acids in different origin R. isatidis was 13.32-19.16 mg/g. The differences between R. isatidis samples were large using HCA.
- Zhou, Wei,Zhang, Xiao-Yan,Duan, Geng-Li
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- Aqueous phosphoric acid as a mild reagent for deprotection of tert-butyl carbamates, esters, and ethers
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(Chemical Equation Presented) Aqueous phosphoric acid (85 wt %) is an effective, environmentally benign reagent for the deprotection of tert-butyl carbamates, tert-butyl esters, and tert-butyl ethers. The reaction conditions are mild and offer good selectivity in the presence of other acid-sensitive groups, including CBZ carbamates, azetidine, benzyl and methyl esters, TBDMS, and methyl phenyl ethers. The mildness of the reaction is further demonstrated in the synthesis of clarithromycin derivative 4, in which a tert-butyl ester is removed in the presence of cyclic carbamate, lactone, ketal, acetate ester, and epimerizable methyl ketone functionalities. The reaction preserves the stereochemical integrity of the substrates. The reactions are high yielding, and the workup is convenient.
- Li, Bryan,Berliner, Martin,Buzon, Richard,Chiu, Charles K.-F.,Colgan, Stephen T.,Kaneko, Takushi,Keene, Nandell,Kissel, William,Le, Tung,Leeman, Kyle R.,Marquez, Brian,Morris, Ronald,Newell, Lisa,Wunderwald, Silke,Witt, Michael,Weaver, John,Zhang, Zhijun,Zhang, Zhongli
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