Through the looking glass - a new world of proteins enabled by chemical synthesis

Journal of Peptide Science

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 428-436

  Kent, Stephen ^a   Sohma, Youhei ^a   Liu, Suhuai ^a   Bang, Duhee ^a   Pentelute, Brad ^a   Mandal, Kalyaneswar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical ligation; Chemical protein synthesis; Erythropoietin; Ester insulin; Glycoprotein mimetics; Mirror image proteins; Racemic protein crystallography

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ERYTHROPOIETIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; HUMAN INSULIN; PEPTIDOMIMETIC AGENT; POLYPEPTIDE; VASCULOTROPIN A; VASCULOTROPIN INHIBITOR;

BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENANTIOMER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RACEMIC MIXTURE; REVIEW; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PROTEINS;

EID: 84862599167     PISSN: 10752617     EISSN: 10991387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/psc.2421     Document Type: Review

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