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Abstract:
When all L-amino acid (aa) random peptide libraries synthesized on solid-phase particles were screened (Selectide Technology), we identified several peptide ligands (YG_F_) that interacted specifically with an anti-beta-endorphin monoclonal antibody (clone 3E7) (single-letter aa symbols; symbols '_' indicate variable aa). Here, we report on the screening of three different D-aa-containing pentapeptide libraries (XxXxX, xXxXx and xxxxx, wherein X = L-aa, and x = D-aa) with the same antibody, in which several D-aa-containing ligands were identified. The binding affinities of many of these D-aa-containing ligands were as least two orders of magnitude lower than that of YGGFL, for which the Ki is 17.5 nM.
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