Multipurpose isothiocyanyl alanine/lysine: Use as solvatochromic IR probes and in site specific labeling/ligation of short peptides

Subhendu Sekhar Bag, Suranjan De

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Abstract

The solvatochromic IR responsivity of small side chain –NCS in two unexplored unnatural amino acids, isothiocyanyl alanine (NCSAla = Ita) and lysine (NCSLys = Itl), without perturbing the conformation is demonstrated in two designed short tripeptide (BocAla-NCSAla-Ala-OMe) and hexapeptide (BocLeu-Val-Phe-Phe-NCSLys-Gly-OMe). Demonstration of site specific fluorescent labeling in both the peptides and ligation type reaction in NCSLys indicates the novelty of these two amino acids as alternative to the available canonical amino acids.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1404-1409
Number of pages6
JournalBioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 May 2018
Externally publishedYes

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Funding

The authors thank the Department of Biotechnology (DBT: BT/PR16620/NER/95/223/2015), New Delhi, Govt. of India for generous funding. S.D. thanks the IIT Guwahati for a fellowship. The CIF, IITG is gratefully acknowledged for 600 MHz NMR facility. The authors thank the Department of Biotechnology (DBT: BT/PR16620/NER/95/223/2015), New Delhi, Govt. of India for generous funding. S.D. thanks the IIT Guwahati for a fellowship. The CIF, IITG is gratefully acknowledged for 600 MHz NMR facility.

FundersFunder number
IIT Guwahati
Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, IndiaBT/PR16620/NER/95/223/2015

    Keywords

    • IR sensitive probe
    • Isothiocyanyl alanine
    • Isothiocyanyl lysine
    • Peptide ligation
    • Site specific labeling

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