CONFORMATIONALLY CONSTRAINED ANALOGS OF DIACYLGLYCEROL .6. CHANGES INPK-C BINDING-AFFINITY FOR 3-O-ACYL-2-DEOXY-L-RIBONOLACTONES BEARING DIFFERENT ACYL CHAINS
Several 3-O-acyl-2-deoxy-L-ribonolactones with various acyl chains wer
e synthesized and evaluated for their ability to compete with [H-3]pho
rbol-12,13-dibutyrate in a PK-C binding assay. A parabolic correlation
between log 1/K-i and log water solubility [log (WS)] revealed the im
portance of branching of the acyl chain as a means to increase affinit
y. As in the case of the diacylglycerols, this effect possibly is rela
ted to the de-stabilization of the lipid bilayer induced by the presen
ce of a ''kink'' in the modified acyl chains.