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Bis(2-sulfanylethyl)amido peptides enable native chemical ligation at proline and minimize deletion side-product formation
Raibaut, Laurent,Seeberger, Phillip,Melnyk, Oleg
, p. 5516 - 5519 (2013)
Native chemical ligation of C-terminal peptidyl prolyl alkylthioesters with N-terminal cysteinyl peptides usually exhibits poor kinetic rates compared to other C-terminal amino acid residues. It is shown here that the reaction is accompanied by the formation of a deletion side product which is minimized by using a bis(2-sulfanylethyl)amido (SEA) thioester surrogate at a mildly acidic pH.
Preformed selenoesters enable rapid native chemical ligation at intractable sites
Durek, Thomas,Alewood, Paul F.
, p. 12042 - 12045 (2012/02/14)
Going pro: The first facile Pro-Cys ligation using a preformed prolyl selenoester is reported (see scheme; P=peptide). In a comparative study of peptide selenoesters in native chemical ligation peptide α-selenoesters are shown to be superior acyl donors and result in rate enhancements of at least two orders of magnitude when compared to the well-established peptide α-thioesters. This method permits rapid chemical ligation even at previously intractable sites, such as Pro-Cys. Copyright
