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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 24, 1999
Floyd E. Taub, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Christopher K. Murray, Boulder, CO (US);
Randall J. Daughenbaugh, Boulder, CO (US);
Daniel Lednicer, North Bethesda, MD (US);
Dovetail Technologies, Inc., College Park, MD (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to novel disulfides and thiols that are of up to about eighteen amino acids. One example, is a compound of the formula (1): A—B—C—S—S—D—E—F, wherein: A and F are selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, an amino acid, a dipeptide, a tripeptide, a modified polypeptide up to three amino acids long, and a carbobenzoxy groups, B and E are selected from the group consisting of an amino acid, a dipeptide, a tripeptide, and a modified polypeptide comprising up to and including three amino acids, C and D are selected from the group consisting of a modified polypeptide and a polypeptide comprising up to and including three amino acids, and S is the sulfur atom in the modified polypeptide and the polypeptide in C and D.