| Literature DB >> 18950150 |
He Meng1, Subrahmanian Tarakkad Krishnaji, Martin Beinborn, Krishna Kumar.
Abstract
The relative simplicity and high specificity of peptide therapeutics has fueled recent interest. However, peptide and protein drugs generally require injection and suffer from low metabolic stability. We report here the design, synthesis, and characterization of fluorinated analogues of the gut hormone peptide, GLP-1. Overall, fluorinated GLP-1 analogues displayed higher proteolytic stability with simultaneous retention of biological activity (efficacy). Fluorinated amino acids are useful for engineering peptide drug candidates and probing ligand-receptor interactions.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID: 18950150 PMCID: PMC2645917 DOI: 10.1021/jm8008579
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Med Chem ISSN: 0022-2623 Impact factor: 7.446