Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol.120, No.31, 7706-7718, 1998
Synthesis and screening of linear and cyclic oligocarbamate libraries. Discovery of high affinity ligands for GPIIb/IIIa
Synthetic methodology has been developed for the generation of large, diverse libraries of "unnatural" carbamate oligomers using the "one bead, one peptide" method. Using a pool of 27 structurally and functionally diverse monomers, one acyclic and two cyclic libraries were synthesized and screened for binding to the integrin GPIIb/IIIa. Several classes of oligocarbamate ligands for GPIlb/IIIa were discovered, and two cyclic ligands have activities that are within a factor of 3 of kistrin, a snake venom protein that effectively inhibits platelet aggregation. Preliminary pharmacokinetic characterization was performed on a-linear oligocarbamate ligand, which was cleared from plasma with a half-life of 3.6 min.
Keywords:SOLID-PHASE SYNTHESIS;COMBINATORIAL PEPTIDE LIBRARIES;BIOLOGICALLY-ACTIVE PEPTIDES;GLYCOPROTEIN-IIB-IIIA;DRUG DISCOVERY;UNNATURAL BIOPOLYMER;RGD PEPTIDES;SH3 DOMAIN;CHEMISTRY;DESIGN