beta,beta-Dimethyl Amino Acids

beta,beta-Dimethyl Amino Acids

Published on 27/03/2018

The use of bioactive peptides has increased over the recent years as they attracted attention for their use as therapeutic agents.

Recent commercial successes, e.g. of GLP-1 analogues such as Liraglutide and Semaglutide, encouraged the development of peptides as therapeutic agents and large-scale synthesis of peptide APIs. However, their inherent susceptibility to proteolytic degradation resulting in rapid elimination in vivo has significantly impeded their broader use.

One way to improve proteolytic stability is the incorporation of beta,beta-dimethylated amino acids into peptide sequences at the P1‘ position (i.e. C-terminal of the enzyme cleavage site).

Possible variants of beta,beta-dimethyl amino acids.

This type of modification renders peptides highly resistant to serine protease degradation, which is often possible without significant alteration of their biological activity. This includes stability towards:

→ dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP IV)

→ dipeptidyl peptidase 8 (DPP8)

→ fibroblast activation protein α (FAPα)

→ α-lytic protease (αLP)

→ trypsin

→ chymotrypsin

P1′-Modification represents a versatile, simple and highly adaptable method for generating enzymatically stable peptides, which has already been demonstrated and published with glucagon-like peptide-1 (7–36) amide (GLP-1) and other examples.

Coloured amino acid residues indicate sites for P1′-Modification in human Glucagon - Like Peptide 1 GLP - 1 (7 - 36) amide; the respective cleavage sites for DPP IV (yellow), Chymotrypsin (blue), and Trypsin (green) are indicated by arrows.

GLP-1 analogues suffer degradation by proteases like DPP IV, Chymotrypsin, and Trypsin. Hence, their stability can be increased by replacing the marked amino acids with their beta,beta-dimethylated analogues.

References:

  • A General Method for Making Peptide Therapeutics Resistant to Serine Protease Degradation: Application to Dipeptidyl Peptidase IV Substrates; K. R. Heard, W. Wu, Y. Li, P. Zhao, I. Woznica, J. H. Lai, M. Beinborn, D. G. Sanford, M. T. Dimare, A. K. Chiluwal, D. E. Peters, D. Whicher, J. L. Sudmeier and W. W. Bachovchin; Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 2013; 56: 8339-8351. doi:10.1021/jm400423p
  • Total synthesis of the large non-ribosomal peptide polytheonamide B; M. Inoue, N. Shinohara, S. Tanabe, T. Takahashi, K. Okura, H. Itoh, Y. Mizoguchi, M. Iida, N. Lee and S. Matsuoka; Nature Chemistry 2010; 2: 280. doi:10.1038/nchem.554
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