Passive Membrane Permeability of Macrocycles Can Be Controlled by Exocyclic Amide Bonds
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Abstract
We have developed a strategy for synthesizing passively permeable peptidomimetic macrocycles. The cyclization chemistry centers on using aziridine aldehydes in a multicomponent reaction with peptides and isocyanides. The linker region in the resulting product contains an exocyclic amide positioned α to the peptide backbone, an arrangement that is not found among natural amino acids. This amide provides structural rigidity within the cyclic peptidomimetic and promotes the creation of a stabilizing intramolecular hydrogen bonding network. This exocyclic control element also contributes to the increased membrane permeability exhibited by multicomponent-derived macrocycles with respect to their homodetic counterparts. The exocyclic control element is employed along with a strategic placement of N-methyl and d-amino acids to produce passively permeable peptides, which contain multiple polar residues. This strategy should be applicable in the pursuit of synthesizing therapeutically relevant macrocycles.
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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) | 0.001 | 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)
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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.
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