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  • Title: Design, synthesis and antithrombin activity for conformationally restricted analogs of peptide anticoagulants based on the C-terminal region of the leech peptide, hirudin.
    Author: Krstenansky JL, Owen TJ, Yates MT, Mao SJ.
    Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta; 1988 Nov 02; 957(1):53-9. PubMed ID: 3179320.
    Abstract:
    Synthetic peptides cyclized via disulfide linkages have been synthesized as conformationally restricted analogs of a novel class of antithrombotic peptides that inhibit fibrinogen cleavage by binding to a non-enzymatic site on thrombin. Several conformational models for these inhibitors have been considered and cyclic analogs were synthesized to test their validity. Compounds designed on an alpha-helical model yielded several cyclic analogs that retained antithrombin activity. [D-Cys58, Cys61]-hirudin54-65, 5, and [D-Cys60, Cys63]-hirudin54-65, 6, had IC50 values of 26 and 30 microM, respectively, in an in vitro clot assay compared with a value of 3.7 microM for the linear hirudin54-65.
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