Abstract
A bicyclic thioether analogue of alpha-conotoxin G1, a neurotoxin found in the venom of cone snails, was synthesized on solid phase. Two successive intramolecular on-bead cyclizations between a cysteine residue and a chloroacetylated reduced peptide bond are the key steps in the synthesis. The first reduced peptide bond was introduced by a reductive alkylation with a 9-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl protected amino aldehyde, and the second by coupling of a dipeptide building block containing an allyloxycarbonyl protected reduced peptide bond. The desired bicyclic product was obtained as a mixture of two isomers, which were evaluated for their ability to inhibit the muscular nicotinic acetylcholine receptor expressed in Xenopus oocytes. The two isomers were found to have IC(50) values (inhibitory activities) of 144 microM and 48 microM, compared to 0.18 microM for native conotoxin G1.
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