Spatially-defined macrocycles incorporating peptide bond surrogates
View Patent ↗Novel spatially-defined macrocyclic compounds incorporating peptide bond surrogates are disclosed. Libraries of these macrocycles are then used to select one or more macrocycle species that exhibit a specific interaction with a particular biological target. In particular, compounds according to the invention are disclosed as agonists or antagonists of a mammalian motilin receptor and a mammalian ghrelin receptor.
1. A compound of formula (I):
(I)
wherein A 4 is not present, A 3 is covalently bonded to T, and
X, A 1 , A 2 , A 3 and T are selected from the group consisting of:
X
A 1
A 2
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
N-Me
N-Ac
A 3
T
wherein (X) indicates the point of attachment of T to X and (A 3 ) indicates the point of attachment of T to A 3 .
2. An agonist of a mammalian ghrelin receptor having the structure: