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Kenji Usui1, Kin-Ya Tomizaki, Hisakazu Mihara
1Department of Bioengineering and The COE21 Program, Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, B-40, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan.
Abstract:
In this paper, we describe an application of 202-membered fluorescently labeled peptide library designed to take an alpha-helix secondary structure. As a proof-of-concept experiment, a calmodulin (CaM)/calcineurin (Cn) pair was chosen to screen alpha-helical peptide ligands that tightly bind to CaM and also control enzymatic functions of Cn. Three peptides were successfully selected from the library by assaying Cn-phosphatase activities and peptide-CaM interactions (dual check process). The strategy using a designed peptide library shows real promise as a peptide-based high-throughput screening system.
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