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. 2021 Mar 25;12(17):5977–5993. doi: 10.1039/d1sc00165e

Comparative α-helicity, hydrophobicity and cell permeability orders of the model peptide targeting the ER coactivatora.

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graphic file with name d1sc00165e-u4.jpg Helicity order Hydrophobicity order Cell permeability orderb
Hydrocarbon 1 1 4
Lactam 1 6 6
Triazole 3 5 5
Vinyl sulfide 4 4 3
m-Xylene 5 3 2
Perfluoroaryl 7 2 1
None (linear) 6 6 7
a

The same numbers denote the two stapled peptide showed similar specific properties.

b

The cell-permeabilities were detected using FAM-labelled stapled peptides in T47D, MCF-7, Hela, HEK293T cell lines via confocal microscopy, which showed concordant results in this study.