The present invention relates to a chemically modified mutant protein including a cysteine residue substituted for a residue other than cysteine in a precursor protein, the substituted cysteine residue being subsequently modified by reacting the cysteine residue with a glycosylated thiosulfonate. Also, a method of producing the chemically modified mutant protein is provided. The present invention also relates to a glycosylated methanethiosulfonate. Another aspect of the present invention is a method of modifying the functional characteristics of a protein including providing a protein and reacting the protein with a glycosylated methanethiosulfonate reagent under conditions effective to produce a glycoprotein with altered functional characteristics as compared to the protein. In addition, the present invention relates to methods of determining the structure-function relationships of chemically modified mutant proteins.
本发明涉及一种
化学修饰的突变蛋白,其包括在前体蛋白中以半胱
氨酸取代其他
氨基酸残基的半胱
氨酸残基,随后通过将半胱
氨酸残基与糖基化
硫代
磺酸盐反应来修饰替代的半胱
氨酸残基。此外,本发明还提供了一种制备
化学修饰的突变蛋白的方法。本发明还涉及一种糖基化甲
硫磺酸盐。本发明的另一个方面是一种改变蛋白质功能特性的方法,包括提供蛋白质并在有效条件下将蛋白质与糖基化甲
硫磺酸盐试剂反应,以产生与蛋白质相比具有改变的功能特性的糖基化蛋白质。此外,本发明还涉及确定
化学修饰突变蛋白的结构-功能关系的方法。