Collagen model peptides

Heidemann, E. and Roth, W. Synthesis and Investigation of Collagen Model Peptides. Vol. 43, pp. 145-205. 

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Table 2 shows a list of collagen model peptides which have teen prepared. Many efforts have been made to prevent racemization. The polycondensation reaction seemed to be more sensitive to racemization than the coupling steps preparing the monomeric tripeptide. Therefore, the sequence of the monomer was selected with Gly or Pro at the C-terminal chain end, because racemization is mostly favored at the carboxy-activated amino acid, and these amino acids cannot racemize. 

Table 8. Thermodynamic parameters of the coil-to-helix transition of collagen-model peptides, covalently linked with 1,2,3-propanetricarboxylic acid (PTC) and Lys-Lys, respectively. Solvent 1% aqueous acetic arid (pH 3.0)...

A series of short peptide fragments of type III collagen have been used to find binding sites with other molecules. DDR-2 has been shown to interact with a type III collagen model peptide with the minimal sequence of GVMGFO (where O is 4-hydroxyproline)." It is interesting to note that this same sequence is also involved with the collagen interaction of SPARC." ... 

Figure 15 Examples of artificial collagen model peptide knots, (a) Regioselective artificial cystine knot, (b) dilysine scaffold,(c) c/s,c/s-1,3,5-trimethylcyclohexane-1,3,5-tricarboxylic acid Kemp tri acid , (d) TREN-(suc-OH)3, (Tris(2-aminoethyl)amine) succinic acid, (e) Fe + [2,2 -bipyridyl-peptide]3, " (f) monoalkyl chains, " (g) Boc-/3-Ala-TRIS-(OH)3 knot, and (h) N-terminal GFGEEG link. ...

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