TY - JOUR AU - Cabrele, C AU - Martinek, Tamás AU - Reiser, O AU - Berlicki, Ł TI - Peptides containing β-amino acid patterns: Challenges and successes in medicinal chemistry JF - JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY J2 - J MED CHEM VL - 57 PY - 2014 IS - 23 SP - 9718 EP - 9739 PG - 22 SN - 0022-2623 DO - 10.1021/jm5010896 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/2817673 ID - 2817673 AB - The construction of bioactive peptides using β-amino acid-containing sequence patterns is a very promising strategy to obtain analogues that exhibit properties of high interest for medicinal chemistry applications. β-Amino acids have been shown to modulate the conformation, dynamics, and proteolytic susceptibility of native peptides. They can be either combined with α-amino acids by following specific patterns, which results in backbone architectures with well-defined orientations of the side chain functional groups, or assembled in de novo-designed bioactive β- or α,β-peptidic sequences. Such peptides display various biological functions, including antimicrobial activity, inhibition of protein-protein interactions, agonism/antagonism of GPCR ligands, and anti-angiogenic activity. LA - English DB - MTMT ER -