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CHEMISTRY-AN ASIAN JOURNAL
Volume 17, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/asia.202200149
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- Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), India [ECR/2015/000337, CRG/2019/003299]
- CSIR
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Peptoids are peptide-like molecules with improved cell-permeability and proteolytic stability. However, the conformational flexibility of peptoids leads to moderate affinity towards biomacromolecules. Strategies involving the incorporation of specific side chains have been developed to control the cis-trans isomerization of peptoid amide bonds and design peptoid oligomers with well-defined secondary structures.
Peptoids are oligomers of N-substituted glycine units. They structurally resemble peptides but, unlike natural peptides, the side chains of peptoids are present on the amide nitrogen atoms instead of the alpha-carbons. The N-substitution improves cell-permeability of peptoids and enhance their proteolytic stability over natural peptides. Therefore, peptoids are ideal peptidomimetic candidates for drug discovery, especially for intracellular targets. Unfortunately, most peptoid ligands discovered so far possess moderate affinity towards their biological targets. The moderate affinity of peptoids for biomacromolecules is linked to their conformational flexibility, which causes substantial entropic loss during the peptoid-biomacromolecule binding process. The conformational flexibility of peptoids is caused by the lack of backbone chirality, absence of hydrogen bond donors (NH) in their backbone to form CO center dot center dot center dot HN hydrogen bonds and the facile cis-trans isomerization of their tertiary amide bonds. In recent years, many investigators have shown that the incorporation of specific side chains with unique steric and stereoelectronic features can favourably shift the cis-trans equilibria of peptoids towards one of the two isomeric forms. Such strategies are helpful to design homogenous peptoid oligomers having well defined secondary structures. Herein, we discuss the strategies developed over the years to control the cis-trans isomerization of peptoid amide bonds.
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