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. 2018 May 1;8:6795. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-25009-3

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Chemical structures of peptoid-based mimics of SP-B (pB)26 and SP-C (pC)27. The eight N-terminal residues of pC contain side chains that are analogous to SP-C5–12, and the remaining 14 aromatic hydrophobic residues form a helix that mimics the membrane spanning, hydrophobic helix of native SP-C. The N-terminal octadecyl amine of pC is a motif intended to mimic the post-translational modification of palmitoylated residues 5 and 6 in human SP-C. The mimic pB was designed to emulate the insertion region and helical amphipathic patterning of SP-B1-25, with the added feature of an N-terminal octadecylamine.