Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to provide a novel method having high efficiency and versatility for a peptide thioester and peptide. The present invention provides a method for producing a peptide thioester, comprising the steps of: (1) providing a peptide thioester having a CGC triplet at the C-terminal; (2) causing a transfer between an SH group of the C-terminal cysteine and a carbonyl group of the glycine in the CGC triplet to obtain an R-X-CG-thioester; and (3) causing, in the R-X-CG-thioester, a transfer between the SH group of the cysteine and a carbonyl group of X, and a transfer between an amino group of the cysteine and a thiol group of the glycine to obtain a peptide thioester, and a method for producing a peptide using the peptide thioester produced by this method.
Abstract:
An object of the invention is to provide a method of uniformly and efficiently producing a saccharide having a sulfate group and/or a phosphate group in the molecule, or a compound containing the saccharide. [Solution] The present invention provides a method of producing a saccharide having a sulfate group and/or a phosphate group. The method comprises (a) a step of preparing a “first saccharide having a non-protected sulfate group and/or a non-protected phosphate group” and a “second saccharide having a non-protected sulfate group and/or a non-protected phosphate group” and (b) a step of condensing the first saccharide and the second saccharide prepared in the step (a) with each other.
Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to provide an albumin-sugar chain complex bound with a number of sugar chains sufficient for obtaining a sugar chain clustering effect while also being able to exist comparatively stably in the body. The present invention provides an albumin-sugar chain complex having five or more molecules of an asparagine-linked sugar chain bound per molecule of albumin; a carrier for selectively delivering a functional molecule to a target tissue in the body that contains the aforementioned albumin-sugar chain complex; and a bioimaging probe having the aforementioned albumin-sugar chain complex as an active ingredient thereof that is administered into the body of an animal.
Abstract:
A process for chemically converting a peptide chain into a peptide thioester includes, when a —C(═X)—R1 group is introduced to the thiol group of the cysteine residue and then the resulting peptide is reacted with a compound having a leaving group represented by the formula: —NH—C(═Y)NHR3 in an organic solvent, the —NH—C(═Y)NHR3 group binds via addition reaction to the carboxyl group of the N-terminal-side peptide bond of the cysteine residue, whereby the peptide bond is cleaved and the C-terminal-side peptide fragment is cut off. Further, when the resulting peptide chain having the —NH—C(═Y)NHR3 group is reacted with a thiol in a buffer solution, a thiol exchange reaction occurs, namely, the thiol group of the thiol binds to the carbonyl carbon to which the —NH—C(═Y)NHR3 group has bound, whereby the —NH—C(═Y)NHR3 group is eliminated.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an oligosaccharide chain added GLP-1 peptide that has higher stability in blood than that of GLP-1 and, preferably, exhibits higher activity of controlling blood-sugar levels than that of GLP-1. The present invention relates to an oligosaccharide chain added GLP-1 peptide having GLP-1 activity, wherein at least one amino acid is substituted with an oligosaccharide chain added amino acid, in: (a) GLP-1; (b) a peptide having the amino acid sequence of GLP-1 with deletion, substitution or addition of one or several amino acids; or (c) a GLP-1 analog.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a new bis(tetrahydrofuran) compound having an excellent neurotrophic factor activity-enhancing effect, and a process for producing the same. The bis(tetrahydrofuran) compound of the present invention is represented by formula (1): wherein R1 and R2 are the same or different, and represent a C1-4 alkyl group, a C1-5 alkoxy group, an aryl C1-5 alkoxy group, a C2-5 alkenyloxy group, or an aryl C2-5 alkenyloxy group, or R1 and R2 together represent ═O or ═CH2; R3 represents a hydrogen atom or a group —CH2—O—R4; R4 represents a C1-4 alkyl group, a C1-5 alkylcarbonyl group, or an aryl C1-4 alkyl group that may have a substituent on an aryl ring; and a carbon-carbon bond between “a” and “b” represents a single bond or a double bond. The bis(tetrahydrofuran) compound has an excellent neurotrophic factor activity-enhancing effect.
Abstract:
The object of the present invention is to provide a method of efficiently manufacturing an optically active D- and/or L-form amino acid possessing a thiol group in the side chain by a simple method. The present invention provides a method of manufacturing an amino acid derivative possessing a thiol group in the side chain, characterized in manufacturing an intermediate composition comprising D- and L-forms of an amino acid derivative possessing a thiol group at the β-position, reacting a hydrolase selective for D- or L-amino acids, and separating the hydrolyzed D- or L-amino acid derivative, as well as an intermediate thereof.
Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to provide an albumin-sugar chain complex bound with a number of sugar chains sufficient for obtaining a sugar chain clustering effect while also being able to exist comparatively stably in the body. The present invention provides an albumin-sugar chain complex having five or more molecules of an asparagine-linked sugar chain bound per molecule of albumin; a carrier for selectively delivering a functional molecule to a target tissue in the body that contains the aforementioned albumin-sugar chain complex; and a bioimaging probe having the aforementioned albumin-sugar chain complex as an active ingredient thereof that is administered into the body of an animal.
Abstract:
[Problem] To provide a glycosylated polypeptide having affinity to somatostatin receptors and, compared to somatostatins, having improved in-blood stability. [Solution] The glycosylated polypeptide is characterized by at least two amino acids in a somatostatin or an analogue thereof being replaced by glycosylated amino acids.
Abstract:
[Technical Problem]To provide a method for manufacturing that enables to obtain a targeted glycopeptide harboring a sialyl sugar chain in high yield without decomposing sialic acid at a non-reducing terminal of sugar chain when the glycopeptide is synthesized by a Boc solid phase synthesis method.[Solution to Problem]The present invention is characterized in that the Boc-sialylglycosylated amino acid derivative used in Boc solid phase synthesis method is one where the carboxyl group of the sialic acid at the sugar chain non-reducing terminal is protected with a phenacyl group.