Grafting different regions of related peptides together to form a single protein chimera is a valuable tool in rapidly elucidating regions of activity or selectivity in peptides and proteins. To conveniently evaluate the contributions of the N- and C-terminal segments of ω-conotoxins CVID and MVIIC to activity, we employed native chemical ligation in CVID-MVIIC chimera design. Assembly of these peptide segments via the ligation method improved overall yield and coupling efficiency, with no difficult sequences encountered in contrast to the traditional full-length chain assembly of CVID. Radio-ligand binding assays revealed regions of importance for receptor recognition.
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多肽的不同区域嫁接在一起形成单个蛋白质嵌合体是快速阐明
多肽和蛋白质活性或选择性区域的重要工具。为了方便地评估ω-康毒素CVID和MVIIC的N端和C端对活性的贡献,我们在CVID-MVIIC嵌合体设计中采用了原生
化学连接法。与传统的 CVID 全长链组装相比,通过连接法组装这些肽段提高了总体产量和耦合效率,而且没有遇到困难序列。无线电
配体结合试验揭示了受体识别的重要区域。