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R G Whittaker1, P J Hayes, V J Bender
1CSIRO Division of Biomolecular Engineering, Sydney Laboratory, NSW, Australia.
Abstract:
A gentle method for the addition of Tris to the carboxyl group of amino acids or peptides for the purpose of altering their solubility and/or for providing sites for further derivatization is described. Under mild alkaline conditions and in high concentrations of aqueous dimethylformamide, the amino group of Tris cleaves simple esters of N-protected amino acids or peptides to form an amino acid-Tris linkage. The effects of pH, temperature and dimethylformamide concentration on the rate and the efficiency of the reaction of Tris with benzyloxycarbonyl-alanine methyl ester were examined and the general applicability of the method demonstrated on a range of amino acid and small peptide substrates. Side-chain protection was not required and the degree of racemization was found to be lower than with conventional chemical coupling.
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