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A fully automated flow-based approach for accelerated peptide synthesis
Alexander J Mijalis1, Dale A Thomas2, Mark D Simon1
1Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Nature Chemical Biology
|March 1, 2017
Abstract:
Here we report a fully automated, flow-based approach to solid-phase polypeptide synthesis, with amide bond formation in 7 seconds and total synthesis times of 40 seconds per amino acid residue. Crude peptide purities and isolated yields were comparable to those for standard-batch solid-phase peptide synthesis. At full capacity, this approach can yield tens of thousands of individual 30-mer peptides per year.

