Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters 2001-Sep
Synthesis and evaluation of the sunflower derived trypsin inhibitor as a potent inhibitor of the type II transmembrane serine protease, matriptase.
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We report here the synthesis of a 14-amino acid long bicyclic peptide, previously isolated from sunflower seeds. This peptide, termed sunflower trypsin inhibitor (SFTI-1), is one of the most potent naturally occurring small-molecule trypsin inhibitors. In addition to inhibiting trypsin, the synthetic SFTI-1 is also a very potent inhibitor, with a K(i) of 0.92nM, of the recently identified epithelial serine protease, termed 'matriptase'.