Abstract:
The present invention provides a coryneform bacterium having an ability to produce a heterologous fusion protein by secretory production, which has been modified to express a genetic construct for secretory production of the heterologous fusion protein encoding at least a heterologous fusion protein comprising an extein and an intein having an activity of acyl rearrangement. The method for producing proteins modified at the C-terminus is also provided.
Abstract:
Method for preparing a peptide assembly of n fragments and n−1 amino acids bearing a thiol function, represented by the formula: A1-C1-A2-C2-A3- . . . -Ci−1-Ai- . . . -Cn−1-An (I) in which A1, A2, A3, . . . Ai . . . , An are peptide fragments, C1, C2, C3 . . . Ci−1 . . . Cn−1 are amino acid residues bearing a thiol function, n is comprised between 3 and 50, and i is 2 to n, in which a peptide-thioester is prepared of formula: A1-SR (II) in which A1 is a peptide fragment and SR is an alkyl thioester residue, R being alkyl optionally substituted, starting from a bis(2-sulphanylethyl)amino peptide.
Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a peptide thioester compound, a peptide hydrazide compound, and a peptide amide compound. The present invention provides a method for producing a peptide hydrazide compound or a peptide amide compound by using a compound represented by Formula (2): wherein R1, R2, R3, and X are as defined in the specification, and using a hydrazine compound or an ammonia compound as a reaction reagent. The present invention also provides a method for producing a peptide thioester compound from the peptide hydrazide compound.
Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a peptide thioester compound, a peptide hydrazide compound, and a peptide amide compound. The present invention provides a method for producing a peptide hydrazide compound or a peptide amide compound by using a compound represented by Formula (2): wherein R1, R2, R3, and X are as defined in the specification, and using a hydrazine compound or an ammonia compound as a reaction reagent. The present invention also provides a method for producing a peptide thioester compound from the peptide hydrazide compound.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a coryneform bacterium having an ability to produce a heterologous fusion protein by secretory production, which has been modified to express a genetic construct for secretory production of the heterologous fusion protein encoding at least a heterologous fusion protein comprising an extein and an intein having an activity of acyl rearrangement. The method for producing proteins modified at the C-terminus is also provided.
Abstract:
The disclosure relates to methods for producing amide bonds and reagents related thereto. In some embodiments, the disclosure relates to methods of producing an amide comprising mixing an O-silylated thionoester and an amine under conditions such that an amide is formed. In another embodiment, the disclosure relates to mixing a thiolacid, a silylating agent, and an amine under conditions such that an amide is formed.
Abstract:
The disclosure relates to methods for producing amide bonds and reagents related thereto. In some embodiments, the disclosure relates to methods of producing an amide comprising mixing an O-silylated thionoester and an amine under conditions such that an amide is formed. In another embodiment, the disclosure relates to mixing a thiolacid, a silylating agent, and an amine under conditions such that an amide is formed.
Abstract:
There are provided compounds and methods for amidating the C-terminus of a polypeptide. The method include reacting a polypeptide which includes a C-terminal thioester or C-terminal selenoester with any one of a defined set of auxiliary molecules under conditions suitable to produce a polypeptide adduct which includes the auxiliary molecule chemically bound at the C-terminal of the polypeptide. In the subsequent step, the auxiliary molecule is removed from the C-terminal of the polypeptide adduct under conditions suitable to produce an amidated polypeptide.
Abstract:
Provided herein are polymeric α-hydroxy aldehyde or α-hydroxy ketone reagents which can be conjugated to amine-containing compounds to form stable conjugates in a single-step reaction. In selected embodiments, the polymeric reagent itself incorporates an internal proton-abstracting (basic) functional group, to promote more efficient reaction. The substituent is appropriately situated, via a linker if necessary, to position the group for proton abstraction, preferably providing a 4- or 5-bond spacing between the abstracting atom and the hydrogen atom on the α-carbon. Also provided are methods of using the reagents and stable, solubilized conjugates of the reagents with biologically active compounds. In preferred embodiments, the polymeric component of the reagent or conjugate is a polyethylene glycol.
Abstract:
A novel for amidation of C-terminal carboxyl groups of peptides is devised, which methods avoids undesired epimerisation of the α-carbon of the C-terminal amino acid yielding diastereoisomeric variants of the amidated peptide.