Modular synthetic strategy for N/C-terminal protected amyloidogenic peptides

Abstract

N/C-terminal protected amyloidogenic peptides are valuable biomaterials. Optimization of the protective structures at both termini is, however, synthetically laborious because a linear sequence of solid-phase peptide synthesis protocol (on-resin peptide assembly/peptide removal from resin/high-performance liquid chromatography purification) is required for the peptides each time the protective group is modified. In this study, we demonstrate a modular synthetic strategy for the purpose of rapidly deriving the N/C-terminal structures of amyloidogenic peptides. The precursor sequences that can be easily synthesized due to a non-amyloidogenic property were stocked as the synthetic intermediates. Condensation of the intermediates with N/C-terminal units in a liquid phase followed by high-performance liquid chromatography purification gave the desired peptides P1-P8. The amyloidogenic peptides that have various N/C-terminal protective structures were therefore synthesized in a labor-effective manner. This method is suggested to be useful for synthesizing amyloidogenic peptides possessing divergent protective structures at the N/C-terminus.

Keywords: amyloid; gelation; modular synthesis; peptide.