This microreview discusses recent efforts in chemical synthesis to design divergent pathways either to access diverse natural products from a common intermediate or to produce diverse libraries of compounds reminiscent of natural products. These efforts are generally based on the development and use of powerful complexity-generating reactions and cascade reactions. A panel of eighteen examples is used to illustrate different strategies
Herbal extracts containing sesquiterpene lactones have been extensively used in traditional medicine and are known to be rich in α,β-unsaturated functionalities that can covalently engage target proteins. Here we report synthetic methodologies to access analogues of deoxyelephantopin, a sesquiterpene lactone with anticancer properties. Using alkyne-tagged cellular probes and quantitative proteomics analysis, we identified several cellular targets of deoxyelephantopin. We further demonstrate that deoxyelephantopin antagonizes PPARγ activity in situ via covalent engagement of a cysteine residue in the zinc-finger motif of this nuclear receptor.
An expedient and simple protocol to access S-linked glycopeptides by Fmoc SPPS using unprotected carbohydrates is reported. The utility of the method was demonstrated with the solid phase synthesis of a MUC1 fragment (20 mer) containing two glycosylation sites that were substituted with S-linked glycans.
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