Synthesis of <i>C</i>-Linked Triazole-Containing AFGP Analogues and Their Ability to Inhibit Ice Recrystallization
Bibliographic record
Abstract
C-Linked antifreeze glycoprotein (C-AFGP) analogues have been shown to have potent ice recrystallization inhibition (IRI) activity. However, the lengthy synthesis of these compounds is not amenable to large-scale preparation for the many commercial, industrial, and medical applications that exist. This paper describes the synthesis of triazole-containing AFGPs using a convergent solid-phase synthesis (SPS) approach in which multiple carbohydrate derivatives are coupled to a resin-bound synthetic peptide in a single step. Modified "Click" conditions using dry DMF as solvent with catalytic Cu(II), sodium ascorbate, and microwave radiation afforded the synthesis of AFGP analogues 9-12 in 16-54% isolated yield. Compound 9 demonstrated no IRI activity, while compounds 10, 11, and 12 were moderate inhibitors of ice recrystallization. These results suggest that, while the triazole group is a structural mimetic of an amide bond, the amide bond in C-AFGP analogue 3 is an essential structural feature necessary for potent IRI activity.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".