Issue 4, 2015

Stereocontrolled protein surface recognition using chiral oligoamide proteomimetic foldamers

Abstract

The development of foldamers capable of selective molecular recognition of solvent exposed protein surfaces represents an outstanding challenge in supramolecular chemical biology. Here we introduce an oligoamide foldamer with well-defined conformation that bears all the hallmarks of an information rich oligomer. Specifically, the foldamer recognizes its target protein hDM2 leading to inhibition of its protein–protein interaction with p53 in a manner that depends upon the composition, spatial projection and stereochemistry of functional groups appended to the scaffold. Most significantly, selective inhibition of p53/hDM2 can be achieved against four other targets and the selectivity for p53/hDM2 inhibition versus Mcl-1/NOXA-B inhibition is critically dependent upon the stereochemistry of the helix mimetic.

Graphical abstract: Stereocontrolled protein surface recognition using chiral oligoamide proteomimetic foldamers

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Article information

Article type
Edge Article
Submitted
17 Nov 2014
Accepted
29 Jan 2015
First published
30 Jan 2015
This article is Open Access

All publication charges for this article have been paid for by the Royal Society of Chemistry
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Chem. Sci., 2015,6, 2434-2443

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Stereocontrolled protein surface recognition using chiral oligoamide proteomimetic foldamers

V. Azzarito, J. A. Miles, J. Fisher, T. A. Edwards, S. L. Warriner and A. J. Wilson, Chem. Sci., 2015, 6, 2434 DOI: 10.1039/C4SC03559C

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