H. Weinberger et al., SMALL PEPTIDE LIBRARIES - COMBINATORIAL SPLIT-MIX SYNTHESIS FOLLOWED BY COMBINATORIAL AMINO-ACID-ANALYSIS OF SELECTED VARIANTS, Archiv der pharmazie, 330(4), 1997, pp. 109-111
Peptides from small combinatorial libraries, covalently attached to po
lymeric TentaGel beads, can be directly sequenced using amino acid ana
lysis. For libraries with restricted diversity, generated by the split
-mix synthesis method, the amino acids on a selected single head ident
ified by pre-column derivatization with o-phthaldialdehyde (OPA) corre
late directly with the sequence of a given peptide. This is shown on a
tripeptide (343 different compounds) and a tetrapeptide (4096 differe
nt compounds) library. This method allows for rapid peptide sequence d
etermination without relying on complex encoding strategies.