title: Lipidated ras and rab peptides and proteins--synthesis, structure, and function.
abstract: Chemical biology can be defined as the study of biological phenomena from a chemical approach. Based on the analysis of relevant biological phenomena and their structural foundation, unsolved problems are identified and tackled through a combination of chemistry and biology. Thus, new synthetic methods and strategies are developed and employed for the construction of compounds that are used to investigate biological procedures. Solid-phase synthesis has emerged as the preferred method for the synthesis of lipidated peptides, which can be chemoselectively ligated to proteins of the Ras superfamily. The generated peptides and proteins have solved biological questions in the field of the Ras-superfamily GTPases that are not amendable to chemical or biological techniques alone.
authors.affiliation: Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Physiologie, Otto-Hahn-Str. 11, 44227 Dortmund, Germany.
authors.forename: Luc
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Brunsveld
authors.forename: Jürgen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kuhlmann
authors.forename: Kirill
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Alexandrov
authors.forename: Alfred
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wittinghofer
authors.forename: Roger S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Goody
authors.forename: Herbert
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Waldmann
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D008074:Lipoproteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D008956:Models, Chemical; D008958:Models, Molecular; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D020691:rab GTP-Binding Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D018631:ras Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D008074:Lipoproteins; D010446:Peptide Fragments; D020691:rab GTP-Binding Proteins; D018631:ras Proteins