Patent ID: 8642545

Claim:
A peptide mimetic of formula (I): R 1 —R 2 —(CH 2 ) n1 —R 3 —(CH 2 ) n2 —R 4 —R 5 (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein: R 1 and R 5 are independently selected from an amino acid sequence selected from SEQ ID Nos: 1-30; n1 and n2 are integers independently selected from 0-10; R 2 and R 4 are independently selected from the group consisting of —CO— and —CH 2 —; and R 3 is selected from the group consisting of O, S, CH 2 , N(CH 2 ) n3 NHR 6 , NCO(CH 2 ) n4 NHR 6 , CHOCONH(CH 2 ) n5 NHR 6 , CHSCON(CH 2 ) n5 NHR 6 , and CHNHCON(CH 2 ) n5 NHR 6 ; wherein n3 is an integer selected from 1-10, n4 is an integer selected from 2-10, n5 is an integer selected from 2-10; and R 6 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and methoxy polyethylene glycol derivatives.