The synthesis of a series of enantiopure malonaldehyde monocycloacetals is described. Treatment of 8b with L-tryptophan methyl ester, 5-methoxytryptamine, and tryptamine, respectively, in the Pictet-Spengler condensation gave the corresponding enantiomerically pure key precursors 1-3 and 17-21 in only two steps. Using a chiral amino-diol successfully realized the kinetic resolution of racemic carbolines 23 and 24.

N-(1-Deoxy-D-fructos-1-yl)-L-amino acids isolated from hog liver are endogenous lead decorporation substances with low toxicity and cell membrane crossing ability. To simulate the effect of the natural N-(1-deoxy-D-fructos-1-yl)-L-amino acids on lead decorporation, a ser ies of the epimerically pure N-(1-deoxy-D-fructos-1-yl)-L-amino acids (6a-eβ) were synthesized, and their usefulness as antagonists of lead intoxication was investigated. The results suggest that after treatment with 6a-eβ the liver, kidney, bone, and brain, lead levels of mice were significantly reduced in comparison with the control group. Except for bone and brain lead levels of the mice after chelating treatment with 6dβ, all of the other tissue lead levels of mice after chelating treatment with 6a-eβ are significantly lower than those of mice after treatment with DL-penicillamine (p<0.05). All fecal lead levels of mice after treatment with 6a-eβ are significantly higher than those of mice after treatment with 0.9% saline (controls) and DLpenicillamine (p<0.05-0.01). The effects of all chelating agents on urinary excretion of lead in mice are clearly superior to the control (p<0.05-0.01). The results of the present studies on repeated lead exposure indicated that at tested levels of i.p. injections, the fructose-amino acids were effective antagonists of lead poisoning under the experimental conditions. After treatment with the chelators, the concentration of essential metals in mice did not exhibit change as compared to the control. The effects of the compounds on cadmium decorporation were also investigated, and similar results were observed.

YSL was prepared stepwise from C terminal to N terminal with the side chain un-protective amino acids, Boc-Leu-OMe, Boc-Ser-OH, and Boc-Tyr-OH, as the starting materials in 39.5% total yield (31.2g/per batch). With the side chain un-protective Boc-(3,5-dibromo)-Tyr-OH and HCl

as prolongation of heterotopic transplanted cardiac tissue survival in vivo, inhibitory effects on phagocytosis of mouse peritoneal macrophages and concanavalin (ConA) or lipopolysaccharide (LPS) induced proliferation of mouse spleen lymphocytes in vitro show that at the comparable concentrations the immunosuppressive activities of the steroid-urotoxin linkers 7a-d, 8a-d, 9a,b, and 10a,b were higher than that of hydrocortisone, prednisolone, and the urotoxins alone, as well as significantly higher than that of the mixture of hydrocortisone and urotoxins or prednisolone and urotoxins. The so-called 'permissive action' may be responsible for the enhancement of the mentioned bioactivities of the steroid–urotoxin linkers 7a-d, 8a-d, 9a,b, and 10a,b.

The in vitro and in vivo thrombolytic activities of Ala-Arg-Pro-Ala-Lys-OH, its analogs and the related peptides were assayed. The results indicate that when 5Lys of Ala-Arg-Pro-Ala-Lys-OH is changed into 5Arg, and 3Lys of Pro-Ala-Lys-OH is changed into 3Arg the thrombolytic activities are collapsed; when Pro-Ala-Lys-OH is changed into Ala-Pro-Lys-OH, and Ala-Arg-Pro-Ala-Lys-OH is changed into Ala-Arg-Ala-Pro-Lys-OH the thrombolytic activities are also collapsed; when 5Lys of Ala-Arg- Pro-Ala-Lys-OH is changed into 5nLeu the thrombolytic activities are again collapsed. All of the results indicate that for the thrombolytic activities of Ala-Arg-Pro-Ala-Lys-OH and the related peptides Pro-Ala-Lys-OH exhibits either amino acid composition specificity or sequence specificity. The composition and sequence specificity of Pro-Ala-Lys-OH reflects its rule as the pharmacophore of P6A and the related peptides.