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ArticleChemical science2020

Chemical synthesis and biological activity of peptides incorporating an ether bridge as a surrogate for a disulfide bond.

Rui Zhao, Pan Shi, Junyou Chen, Shuaishuai Sun, Jingnan Chen, Jibin Cui, Fangming Wu, Gemin Fang, Changlin Tian, Jing Shi and 3 more

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Article in Chemical science, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.

Rui ZhaoHefei National Laboratory of Physical Sciences at Microscale, Department of Chemistry, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China Hefei Anhui 230009 China shijing@ustc.edu.cn.
Pan ShiHefei National Laboratory of Physical Sciences at Microscale, Department of Chemistry, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China Hefei Anhui 230009 China shijing@ustc.edu.cn.
Junyou ChenSchool of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology Hefei Anhui 230009 China ymli@hfut.edu.cn.
Shuaishuai SunSchool of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology Hefei Anhui 230009 China ymli@hfut.edu.cn.
Jingnan ChenSchool of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology Hefei Anhui 230009 China ymli@hfut.edu.cn.
Jibin CuiSchool of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology Hefei Anhui 230009 China ymli@hfut.edu.cn.
Fangming WuHigh Magnetic Field Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei 230031 China.
Gemin FangSchool of Life Science, Institute of Physical Science and Information Technology, Anhui University Hefei 230601 China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4149-4062
Changlin TianHefei National Laboratory of Physical Sciences at Microscale, Department of Chemistry, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China Hefei Anhui 230009 China shijing@ustc.edu.cn.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9315-900X
Jing ShiHefei National Laboratory of Physical Sciences at Microscale, Department of Chemistry, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China Hefei Anhui 230009 China shijing@ustc.edu.cn.
Donald BiererDepartment of Medicinal Chemistry, Bayer AG Aprather Weg 18A 42096 Wuppertal Germany.
Lei LiuDepartment of Chemistry, Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6290-8602
Yi-Ming LiSchool of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology Hefei Anhui 230009 China ymli@hfut.edu.cn.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6716-8199
Hefei University of Technology · CNUniversity of Science and Technology of China · CNAnhui University · CNChinese Academy of Sciences · CNTsinghua University · CNUniversity of Wuppertal · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Disulfide bridges contribute to the definition and rigidity of polypeptides, but they are inherently unstable in reducing environments and in the presence of isomerases and nucleophiles. Strategies to address these deficiencies, ideally without significantly perturbing the structure of the polypeptide, would be of great interest. One possible surrogate for the disulfide bridge is a simple thioether, but these are susceptible to oxidation. We report the introduction of an ether linkage into the biologically active, disulfide-rich peptides oxytocin, tachyplesin I, and conotoxin

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PMID34094161
PMCPMC8163063
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