Native chemical ligation and extended methods: mechanisms, catalysis, scope, and limitations

V Agouridas, O El Mahdi, V Diemer, M Cargoet… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The native chemical ligation reaction (NCL) involves reacting a C-terminal peptide thioester
with an N-terminal cysteinyl peptide to produce a native peptide bond between the two …

Advances in Fmoc solid‐phase peptide synthesis

R Behrendt, P White, J Offer - Journal of Peptide Science, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Today, Fmoc SPPS is the method of choice for peptide synthesis. Very‐high‐quality Fmoc
building blocks are available at low cost because of the economies of scale arising from …

Synthesis of proteins by automated flow chemistry

N Hartrampf, A Saebi, M Poskus, ZP Gates… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Ribosomes can produce proteins in minutes and are largely constrained to proteinogenic
amino acids. Here, we report highly efficient chemistry matched with an automated fast-flow …

Expanding the chemical toolbox for the synthesis of large and uniquely modified proteins

S Bondalapati, M Jbara, A Brik - Nature chemistry, 2016 - nature.com
Methods to prepare proteins that include a specific modification at a desired position are
essential for understanding their cellular functions and physical properties in living systems …

Protein chemical synthesis by ligation of peptide hydrazides

GM Fang, YM Li, F Shen, YC Huang, JB Li… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2011 - infona.pl
pH determines selectivity: The ligation of peptide hydrazides is a new method for protein
chemical synthesis that is complementary to native chemical ligation. Peptide hydrazides …

Free‐radical‐based, specific desulfurization of cysteine: a powerful advance in the synthesis of polypeptides and glycopolypeptides

Q Wan, SJ Danishefsky - Angewandte Chemie, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
A convergent strategy for glycoprotein synthesis entails the assembly of individual peptidyl
substrates, each bearing a single carbohydrate domain. These subunits would then be …

Recent advances in chemical protein synthesis: method developments and biological applications

S Dong, JS Zheng, Y Li, H Wang, G Chen… - Science China …, 2024 - Springer
The central dogma of modern biology underscores the pivotal roles proteins play in diverse
biological processes, the study of which necessitates advanced methods to produce …

Dual native chemical ligation at lysine

R Yang, KK Pasunooti, F Li, XW Liu… - Journal of the American …, 2009 - ACS Publications
A thiol group introduced on the γ-carbon of lysine mediates robust native chemical ligation at
both the α-and ε-amines in two consecutive steps. Desulfurization then affords the final …

Polyionic tags as enhancers of protein solubility in recombinant protein expression

V Paraskevopoulou, FH Falcone - Microorganisms, 2018 - mdpi.com
Since the introduction of recombinant protein expression in the second half of the 1970s, the
growth of the biopharmaceutical field has been rapid and protein therapeutics has come to …

Challenges and perspectives in chemical synthesis of highly hydrophobic peptides

LK Mueller, AC Baumruck, H Zhdanova… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Solid phase peptide synthesis (SPPS) provides the possibility to chemically synthesize
peptides and proteins. Applying the method on hydrophilic structures is usually without …