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. 1977 Jul;74(7):2771-5.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.74.7.2771.

Concept of internal structural controls for evaluation of inactive synthetic peptide analogs: synthesis of [Orn13,14]apamin and its guanidination to an apamin derivative with full neurotoxic activity

Concept of internal structural controls for evaluation of inactive synthetic peptide analogs: synthesis of [Orn13,14]apamin and its guanidination to an apamin derivative with full neurotoxic activity

W L Cosand et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1977 Jul.

Abstract

The importance of arginine residues 13 and 14 in the bee venom neurotoxin, apamin, was teste by the synthesis of replacement analogs. [13,14-di-Ndelta-trifluoroacetylornithine]Apamin was synthesized by the solid phase method on a benzhydrylamine resin. It was deprotected to [13,14-diornithine]apamin, which was then guanidinated to produce the 4-homoarginine-13,14-diarginine analog, [Har4]apamin. Neither the trifluoroacetylornithine analog nor the ornithine analog produced any detectable symptoms when injected intravenously into mice. However, the synthetic [Har4]apamin exhibited the full neurotoxic activity of native apamin and of [Har4]apamin derived from the natural toxin. This provided an internal structural control for the correctness of the primary structure of the inactive synthetic analogs and strengthened the conclusion that one, or both, of the arginine residues plays an important role in the action of apamin.

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