Non-natural amino acids as modulating agents of the conformational space of model glycopeptides |
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Authors: | Fernández-Tejada Alberto Corzana Francisco Busto Jesús H Jiménez-Osés Gonzalo Peregrina Jesús M Avenoza Alberto |
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Affiliation: | Departamento de Química, Universidad de La Rioja, UA‐CSIC 26006 Logro?o (Spain), Fax: (+34)?941‐299‐621 |
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Abstract: | The synthesis and conformational analysis in aqueous solution of different alpha-methyl-alpha-amino acid diamides, derived from serine, threonine, beta-hydroxycyclobutane-alpha-amino acids, and their corresponding model beta-O-glucopeptides, are reported. The study reveals that the presence of an alpha-methyl group forces the model peptides to adopt helix-like conformations. These folded conformations are especially significant for cyclobutane derivatives. Interestingly, this feature was also observed in the corresponding model glucopeptides, thus indicating that the alpha-methyl group and not the beta-O-glucosylation process largely determines the conformational preference of the backbone in these structures. On the other hand, atypical conformations of the glycosidic linkage were experimentally determined. Therefore, when a methyl group was located at the Cbeta atom with an R configuration, the glycosidic linkage was rather rigid. Nevertheless, when the S configuration was displayed, a significant degree of flexibility was observed for the glycosidic linkage, thus showing both alternate and eclipsed conformations of the psi(s) dihedral angle. In addition, some derivatives exhibited an unusual value for the phi(s) angle, which was far from a value of -60 degrees expected for a conventional beta-O-glycosidic linkage. In this sense, the different conformations exhibited by these molecules could be a useful tool in obtaining systems with conformational preferences "à la carte". |
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Keywords: | amino acids conformation analysis glycopeptides molecular dynamics NMR spectroscopy |
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