Cyclobutane-containing peptides and ureassynthesis, folding, self-assembling and some biological properties
- Gorrea Morral, Esther
- Vicenç Branchadell Gallo Director/a
- Rosa María Ortuño Mingarro Director/a
Universidad de defensa: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Fecha de defensa: 07 de febrero de 2012
- Josep Maria Lluch López Presidente/a
- Jesús Jiménez Barbero Secretario/a
- Norbert Sewald Vocal
Tipo: Tesis
Resumen
Peptides and relative compounds, have been widely used and studied during the past decades. In the present thesis, an enantioselective synthesis and structural study of a variety of cyclobutane-containing beta-peptides and ureas is exposed. By means of experimental and theoretical techniques, their adoption of different folding structures due to the presence of self-assembling properties is described. These properties, in some cases, allowed the preparation of stable gels in organic solvents, which obtaintion was fully studied. In addition, the use of solid-phase peptide synthesis strategy was assaied in order to prepare hybrid cyclobutane-proline hexapeptides. Those, were studied as possible cell-penetrating agents.