Miles Steven M, Leatherbarrow Robin J, Marsden Stephen P, Coates William J
Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, UKSW7 2AZ.
Org Biomol Chem. 2004 Feb 7;2(3):281-3. doi: 10.1039/b312908j. Epub 2003 Dec 24.
Bowman-Birk inhibitor analogues containing 2, 3 and 4-carbon analogues of the natural disulfide were synthesised via solid phase microwave-assisted RCM and found to have K(i) values against chymotrypsin in the low to sub-micromolar range, the best replacement for the disulfide arising from the linkage by RCM of two l-homoallylglycine residues.