G. Cavicchioni et al., THE ROLE OF PEPTIDE-BOND IN CHEMOTACTIC FOR-MET-LEU-PHE-OME FOCUSED BY DEPSIPEPTIDE ANALOGS, Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters, 4(13), 1994, pp. 1551-1554
The formyl tridepsipeptides HCO-Met-PSI[COO]Leu-Phe-OMe 3, HCO-Met-PSI
[COO]Aib-Phe-OMe 4 and HCO-Met-Leu-PSI[COO]Phe-NHBz] 5 were synthesize
d in order to investigate the biological consequences arising from int
roduction of an ester bond at various positions in the chemotactic tri
peptides. While analogs 3 and 4 were found lacking in biological activ
ity, stressing an essential role for peptide bond at position 2, compo
und 5 showed to retain activity.