Construction of a crown ether-like supramolecular library by conjugation of genetically-encoded peptide linkers
Keisuke Fukunaga1, Takaaki Hatanaka, Yuji Ito
1Department of Engineering Science, Bioscience and Technology Program, The Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications (UEC), 1-5-1 Chofugaoka, Chofu, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan. taki@pc.uec.ac.jp.
Abstract:
By using the 10BASEd-T, we have synthesized a crown ether-like macrocyclic library possessing randomized peptide linkers on bacteriophage T7. Among 1.5 × 10(9) diversities of the supramolecule candidates, we have obtained a specific binder for the N-terminal domain of Hsp90.
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