title: Design, synthesis, and conformational analysis of azacycloalkane amino acids as conformationally constrained probes for mimicry of peptide secondary structures.
abstract: Conformationally constrained amino acid and dipeptide units can serve in mimics of specific secondary structures for studying relationships between peptide conformation and biological activity. A variety of mimics are required to study systematically the structure-activity relationships in biologically relevant peptides. We present our efforts on the design, synthesis, and conformational analysis of a series of rigid surrogates of amino acid and dipeptide units for application within constrained peptide analogues, and for employment as inputs for combinatorial science. Conceived to be general and versatile, our methodology has delivered a variety of azacycloalkane and azabicycloalkane amino acids in enantiomerically pure form, via practical methods, from readily available and inexpensive starting materials.
authors.affiliation: Département de chimie, Université de Montréal, C. P. 6128, Succursale Centre Ville, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3C 3J7.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Halab
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gosselin
authors.forename: W D
authors.initials: WD
authors.lastname: Lubell
mesh_terms: D000596:Amino Acids / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D001372:Aza Compounds / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D019086:Bridged Bicyclo Compounds, Heterocyclic / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D008958:Models, Molecular; D018716:Molecular Mimicry; D017433:Protein Structure, Secondary; D013237:Stereoisomerism
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D001372:Aza Compounds; D019086:Bridged Bicyclo Compounds, Heterocyclic