Fine Tuning of β-Peptide Foldamers: a Single Atom Replacement Holds Back the Switch from an 8-Helix to a 12-Helix.

Cyclic homologated amino acids are important building blocks for the construction of helical foldamers. N-aminoazetidine-2-carboxylic acid (AAzC), an aza analogue of trans-2-aminocyclobutanecarboxylic acid (tACBC), displays a strong hydrazino turn conformational feature, which is proposed to act as an 8-helix primer. tACBC oligomers bearing a single N-terminal AAzC residue were studied to evaluate the ability of AAzC to induce and support an 8-helix along the oligopeptide length. While tACBC homooligomers assume a dominant 12-helix conformation, the aza-primed oligomers preferentially adopt a stabilized 8-helix conformation for an oligomer length up to 6 residues. The (formal) single-atom exchange at the N terminus of a tACBC oligomer thus contributes to the sustainability of the 8-helix, which resists the switch to a 12-helix. This effect illustrates atomic-level programmable design for fine tuning of peptide foldamer architectures.

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