Lipopeptides for the Fragment-Based Pharmaceutics Design

Zyta M. Ziora, Norbert Wimmer, Roger New, Mariusz Skwarczynski, Istvan Toth

Proxima Concepts Ltd., The London Bioscience Innovation Centre, London, United Kingdom.
The University of Queensland, Centre for Integrated Preclinical Drug Development, TetraQ-Pharmaceutics, Brisbane, Australia.
The University of Queensland, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, Brisbane, Australia.

DOI: 10.4236/ijoc.2012.21013                

Abstract

This paper describes the synthesis of peptide fragments for use in a new type of combinatorial discovery technology, in which the building blocks are brought together by non-covalent interactions, rather than direct chemical bonding. The building blocks of interest—in this case different amino acids—are converted to amphiphiles by attachment to lipid tails. The amphiphiles, when mixed together in aqueous phase, are designed so that they aggregate spontaneously to form micelles. The building blocks form the headgroups of each of the amphiphiles, and these headgroups cover the surface of the micelle in a dynamic close-packed fluid mosaic array. These building blocks come together so closely that two- or three-dimensional structures are created on the surface of the micelles, and these can be screened in biological assays to find out which combination of building blocks is able to elicit a biological response. Lipopeptides consisting of two residues of lipoamino acid and other amino acids moieties have been designed, synthesized, characterized and the ability of these constructs to form supra-molecular assemblies is demonstrated.

Keywords

Lipoamino Acids; Lipopeptides; Amphiphiles; Fragment Based Design; Supra-Molecular Assembly

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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