Issue 1, 2021

N-Arylated peptide: troponyl residue influences the structure and conformation of N-troponylated-(di/tri)-peptides

Abstract

N-arylated peptides as peptoids influence the structural and conformational changes of small peptides that lead to unique foldamers, even in di-/tri-peptides. This report describes the syntheses, structural and conformational studies of rationally designed non-benzenoid N-arylated peptides containing bioactive tropolone molecules such as N-troponylated di-/tri-peptides. This report also demonstrates the role of the troponyl group in influencing the structure and conformation of N-troponylated short peptides (di-/tri-peptides) by single-crystal X-ray data analyses, circular dichroism (CD) studies, and 2D-NMR and DMSO-d61H-NMR titration experiments. The tropolonyl residue has a significant role in the formation of unique supramolecular self-assemblies in dipeptide crystalline solids such as helical/β-sheet/β-turn (antiparallel β-sheet) type secondary structures. The sequence-specific tr-di-/tri-peptides exhibit a characteristic β-strand type of characteristic CD-signal in organic solvents (CH3CN/MeOH). The hydrogen bonding nature of N–H, intra- or intermolecular hydrogen bonding, is also established by DMSO-d61H-NMR titration experiments in the representative tr-di-/tri-peptides. These results explicitly support the role of the troponyl carbonyl group in the formation of secondary structures of peptides, even in di-/tri-peptides. Hence, the N-troponylation of peptides may alter the conformation of peptides to prepare novel peptidomimetics.

Graphical abstract: N-Arylated peptide: troponyl residue influences the structure and conformation of N-troponylated-(di/tri)-peptides

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
22 Sep 2020
Accepted
12 Nov 2020
First published
12 Nov 2020

CrystEngComm, 2021,23, 131-139

N-Arylated peptide: troponyl residue influences the structure and conformation of N-troponylated-(di/tri)-peptides

B. B. Palai and N. K. Sharma, CrystEngComm, 2021, 23, 131 DOI: 10.1039/D0CE01386B

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