SYNTHESIS OF A DESIGNED TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN BY THIOETHER LIGATION OF SOLUBILIZED SEGMENTS - N-ALPHA-HALOACETYLATED PEPTIDES SURVIVED RESIN CLEAVAGE USING TFA WITH EDT AS SCAVENGER
Dr. Englebretsen et al., SYNTHESIS OF A DESIGNED TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN BY THIOETHER LIGATION OF SOLUBILIZED SEGMENTS - N-ALPHA-HALOACETYLATED PEPTIDES SURVIVED RESIN CLEAVAGE USING TFA WITH EDT AS SCAVENGER, Tetrahedron letters, 39(27), 1998, pp. 4929-4932
N alpha-haloacetylated peptides made by Fmoc solid phase synthesis sur
vived cleavage when EDT was used as a cleavage component. Two segments
of a designed transmembrane protein, one bromoacetylated, the other c
ontaining a cysteine, and each bearing a ''solubilising tail'' peptide
, were synthesised by Fmoc SPPS. The two peptides were joined via thio
ether ligation. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.