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STRUCTURALLY DETERMINED METALLO-CONSTRUCTS AND APPLICATIONS
STRUCTURALLY DETERMINED METALLO-CONSTRUCTS AND APPLICATIONS
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机译:结构确定的金属结构及其应用
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A metallo-construct, which may be a peptide, is provided for use as a biological, therapeutic, diagnostic imaging, or radiotherapeutic agent, and for use in library or combinatorial chemistry methods. The construct has a conformationally constrained global secondary structure obtained upon complexing with a metal ion. The peptide constructs are of the general formula R1-X-R2, wherein X is a plurality of amino acids and includes a complexing backbone for complexing metal ions, so that substantially all of the valences of the metal ion are satisfied upon complexation of the metal ion with X, resulting in a specific regional secondary structure forming a part of the global secondary structure; and where R1 and R2 each include from 0 to about 20 amino acids, the amino acids being selected so that upon complexing the metal ion with X at least a portion of either R1 or R2 or both have a structure forming the balance of the conformationally constrained global secondary structure. All or a portion of the global secondary structure, which may be sychnologic or rhegnylogic, may form a ligand or mimic a known biological- function domain. The construct has substantially higher affinity for its target upon labeling with a metal ion.
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