title: Methods and strategies of peptide ligation.
abstract: This review focuses on the concept, methods, and strategies of orthogonal peptide ligation. It updates our previous review in 1999 on the same subject matter in Biopolymers (Peptide Science, 1999, Vol. 51, p. 311). Orthogonal peptide ligation is an amino terminal specific method to couple chemically unprotected peptides or proteins derived from synthetic or biosynthetic sources. Unlike conventional chemical methods, peptide ligation methods do not require coupling reagents or protection schemes, but are achieved through a variable chemoselective capture step and then an invariable intramolecular acyl transfer reaction. It is also a convergent method with the fewest steps. More than a dozen orthogonal ligation methods have been developed based on captures by either imine or thioester chemistries to afford native and unusual amino acids at ligation sites of linear, branched, or cyclic peptides. The ligation strategies for multiple segments including sequential and tandem ligations are also discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University, A5119 MCN, Nashville, TN 37232, USA. tamjp@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Tam
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: K D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Eom
mesh_terms: D000596:Amino Acids / Q000737:chemistry; D003545:Cysteine / Q000737:chemistry; D008715:Methionine / Q000737:chemistry; D010455:Peptides / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry*; D011392:Proline / Q000737:chemistry; D011485:Protein Binding; D015202:Protein Engineering / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D010455:Peptides; D011392:Proline; D008715:Methionine; D003545:Cysteine