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 …

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 …

Chemical synthesis of proteins using peptide hydrazides as thioester surrogates

JS Zheng, S Tang, YK Qi, ZP Wang, L Liu - Nature protocols, 2013 - nature.com
This protocol provides a detailed procedure for the chemical synthesis of proteins through
native chemical ligation of peptide hydrazides. The two crucial stages of this protocol are (i) …

Histones: at the crossroads of peptide and protein chemistry

MM Müller, TW Muir - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
1. INTRODUCTION In eukaryotic cells, inheritable information is stored in a nucleoprotein
complex referred to as chromatin. 1 This genome architecture serves two key purposes. On …

Combining Chemical Protein Synthesis and Random Nonstandard Peptides Integrated Discovery for Modulating Biological Processes

A Saha, H Suga, A Brik - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Chemical manipulation of naturally occurring peptides offers a convenient route
for generating analogs to screen against different therapeutic targets. However, the limited …

Palladium in the chemical synthesis and modification of proteins

M Jbara, SK Maity, A Brik - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The field of site‐specific modification of proteins has drawn significant attention in recent
years owing to its importance in various research areas such as the development of novel …

An efficient one‐pot four‐segment condensation method for protein chemical synthesis

S Tang, YY Si, ZP Wang, KR Mei… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Successive peptide ligation using a one‐pot method can improve the efficiency of protein
chemical synthesis. Although one‐pot three‐segment ligation has enjoyed widespread …

Protein semisynthesis provides access to tau disease-associated post-translational modifications (PTMs) and paves the way to deciphering the tau PTM code in health …

M Haj-Yahya, HA Lashuel - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The microtubule-associated protein Tau plays a central role in neurodegeneration and is a
leading therapeutic target for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Several lines of …

Peptide o‐Aminoanilides as Crypto‐Thioesters for Protein Chemical Synthesis

JX Wang, GM Fang, Y He, DL Qu, M Yu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Fully unprotected peptide o‐aminoanilides can be efficiently activated by NaNO2 in
aqueous solution to furnish peptide thioesters for use in native chemical ligation. This finding …