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Synthesis of Peptides and Proteins without Cysteine Residues by Native Chemical Ligation Combined with Desulfurization
Abstract
The highly chemoselective reaction between unprotected peptides bearing an N-terminal Cys residue and a C-terminal thioester enables the total and semi-synthesis of complex polypeptides. Here we extend the utility of this native chemical ligation approach to non-cysteine containing peptides. Since alanine is a common amino acid in proteins, ligation at this residue would be of great utility. To achieve this goal, a specific alanine residue in the parent protein is replaced with cysteine to facilitate synthesis by native chemical ligation. Following ligation, selective desulfurization of the resulting unprotected polypeptide product with H(2)/metal reagents converts the cysteine residue to alanine. This approach, which provides a general method to prepare alanyl proteins from their cysteinyl forms, can be used to chemically synthesize a variety of polypeptides, as demonstrated by the total chemical syntheses of the cyclic antibiotic microcin J25, the 56-amino acid streptococcal protein G B1 domain, and a variant of the 110-amino acid ribonuclease, barnase.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Yan, L. Z., & Dawson, P. E.
- Venue
- Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Published
- 2001-01-01
- Volume
- 123
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 526-533
- ISSN
- 0002-7863 (ISSN-L)
- 1520-5126
- OpenAlex
- W1990555660
- Cited by
- 661
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 2.93
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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