Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 104(7), 2163-2168 (2007-02-08)
Intrachain loop formation allows unfolded polypeptide chains to search for favorable interactions during protein folding. We applied triplet-triplet energy transfer between a xanthone moiety and naphthylalanine to directly measure loop formation in various unfolded polypeptide chains with loop regions consisting
Journal of chromatography, 506, 611-616 (1990-05-11)
A chiral high-performance liquid-chromatographic separation method was developed for the analysis of some glycerol-based, ether-linked platelet-activating factor precursors. Using a D-naphthylalanine-type Pirkle-column and tetrahydrofuran-hexane eluents, the retention-structure relationships were determined for a large number of glycerol ether derivatives. The derivatives
Chemical biology & drug design, 79(6), 1033-1042 (2012-02-11)
In this paper, we investigated the structure-activity relationship of two vasopressin analogues, [Cpa(1),(L-1-Nal)(2) ]AVP (I) and [Cpa(1),(D-Nal)(2) ]AVP (II) by NMR spectroscopy and molecular modeling. Both peptides exhibit antioxytocic and antipressor potency. Inversion of configuration of the residue at position
The journal of peptide research : official journal of the American Peptide Society, 64(4), 159-169 (2004-09-11)
Many antimicrobial peptides bear arginine (R)- and tryptophan (W)-rich sequence motifs. Based on the sequence Ac-RRWWRF-NH2, sets of linear and cyclic peptides were generated by changes in the amino acid sequence, L-D-amino acid exchange and naphthylalanine substituted for tryptophan. Linear
Enantiopure L-azetidine-2-carboxylic acid, the (3R)-phenyl, (3R)-naphthyl and (3S)-isopropyl analogs were prepared based on a zinc-mediated asymmetric addition of allylic halides to the camphor sultam derivative of glyoxylic acid O-benzyl oxime.
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