Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun.
1980, 45, 1109-1131
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc19801109
Synthesis and chiroptical properties of heterodetic cyclic hexapeptides related to oxytocin ring moiety
Ivo Frič, Lyudmila I. Leonteva, Petr Maloň, Karel Jošt and Karel Bláha
Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 166 10 Prague 6
Abstract
Cyclic disulfides of cysteinyl-tetraglycyl-cysteine (Ia), cysteinyl-tyrosyl-triglycyl-cysteine (Ib) and cysteinyl-tyrosyl-isoleucyl-diglycyl-cysteine (Ic) were synthesized by classical methods of peptide synthesis. The actions of solvent and of side chains in the positions 2 and 3 on the conformational arrangement of the peptide backbone and the disulfide group were investigated by means of CD spectroscopy. Some mechanisms which co-operate in stabilizing the oxytocin conformation were identified. Hence, it may be deduced, that the amino acid sequence in the positions 1-3 determines the spatial arrangement characteristic for oxytocin, at least in a protonating medium.
