title: Studies on intramolecular hydrogen bonding between the pyridine nitrogen and the amide hydrogen of the peptide: synthesis and conformational analysis of tripeptides containing novel amino acids with a pyridine ring.
abstract: For the first time tripeptides, Z-AA(1)-Xaa-AA(3)-OMe (AA(1) and AA(3) = Gly or Aib, Xaa = 2Pmg and 2Pyg) were prepared containing alpha-methyl-alpha-(2-pyridyl)glycine (2Pmg) and alpha-(2-pyridyl)glycine (2Pyg) by solid-phase Ugi reaction. These results clearly indicate that for the preparation of tripeptides containing an amino acid with a pyridine ring, the solid-phase Ugi reaction is very useful.NMR analysis clarified that 2Pmg-containing tripeptides adopt a unique conformation with an intramolecular hydrogen bond between 2Pmg-NH and the pyridine nitrogen. However, in the case of Z-Gly-2Pyg-Gly-OMe, the intramolecular hydrogen bonding between 2Pyg-NH and the pyridine nitrogen was not observed, whereas Z-Aib-2Pyg-Aib-OMe adopts a unique conformation with an intramolecular hydrogen bond between 2Pyg-NH and a pyridine nitrogen. Conformational analysis of the tripeptides, Z-AA(1)-Xaa-AA(3)-OMe (AA(1), AA(3) = Gly or Aib, Xaa = alpha,alpha-di(2-pyridyl)glycine (2Dpy), alpha-phenyl-alpha-(2-pyridyl)glycine (2Ppg), 2Pmg and 2Pyg), clarified that when an alpha,alpha-disubstituted glycine with a 2-pyridyl group at an alpha-carbon atom is introduced into any peptide, an intramolecular hydrogen bond between a pyridine nitrogen and an amide proton is formed and conformational mobility of the peptide backbone is restricted.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Konan University, Higashinada-ku, Kobe, Japan.
authors.forename: Masayuki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hanyu
authors.forename: Daisuke
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ninomiya
authors.forename: Ryoji
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Yanagihara
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Murashima
authors.forename: Toshifumi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Miyazawa
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamada
mesh_terms: D000577:Amides / Q000737:chemistry*; D005998:Glycine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000737:chemistry; D006860:Hydrogen Bonding; D019906:Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular; D009842:Oligopeptides / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry*; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011725:Pyridines / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D000577:Amides; C121909:N-(2-pyridylmethyl)glycine; D009842:Oligopeptides; D011725:Pyridines; C023666:pyridine; D005998:Glycine