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Formation of oligopeptides in high yield under simple programmable conditions.

ABSTRACT: Many high-yielding reactions for forming peptide bonds have been developed but these are complex, requiring activated amino-acid precursors and heterogeneous supports. Herein we demonstrate the programmable one-pot dehydration-hydration condensation of amino acids forming oligopeptide chains in around 50% yield. A digital recursive reactor system was developed to investigate this process, performing these reactions with control over parameters such as temperature, number of cycles, cycle duration, initial monomer concentration and initial pH. Glycine oligopeptides up to 20 amino acids long were formed with very high monomer-to-oligomer conversion, and the majority of these products comprised three amino acid residues or more. Having established the formation of glycine homo-oligopeptides, we then demonstrated the co-condensation of glycine with eight other amino acids (Ala, Asp, Glu, His, Lys, Pro, Thr and Val), incorporating a range of side-chain functionality.

SUBMITTER: Rodriguez-Garcia M

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4633627 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Formation of oligopeptides in high yield under simple programmable conditions.

Rodriguez-Garcia Marc M Surman Andrew J AJ Cooper Geoffrey J T GJT Suárez-Marina Irene I Hosni Zied Z Lee Michael P MP Cronin Leroy L

Nature communications 20151007

Many high-yielding reactions for forming peptide bonds have been developed but these are complex, requiring activated amino-acid precursors and heterogeneous supports. Herein we demonstrate the programmable one-pot dehydration-hydration condensation of amino acids forming oligopeptide chains in around 50% yield. A digital recursive reactor system was developed to investigate this process, performing these reactions with control over parameters such as temperature, number of cycles, cycle duratio ...[more]

PMID: 26442968

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