Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Site-selective photocatalytic functionalization of peptides and proteins at selenocysteine

  • Luke J. Dowman,
  • Sameer S. Kulkarni,
  • Juan V. Alegre-Requena,
  • Andrew M. Giltrap,
  • Alexander R. Norman,
  • Ashish Sharma,
  • Liliana C. Gallegos,
  • Angus S. Mackay,
  • Adarshi P. Welegedara,
  • Emma E. Watson,
  • Damian van Raad,
  • Gerhard Niederacher,
  • Susanne Huhmann,
  • Nicholas Proschogo,
  • Karishma Patel,
  • Mark Larance,
  • Christian F. W. Becker,
  • Joel P. Mackay,
  • Girish Lakhwani,
  • Thomas Huber,
  • Robert S. Paton,
  • Richard J. Payne

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34530-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The modification of peptides and proteins for application in drug discovery and chemical biology is currently a rapidly growing field of research. Here, the authors report a photocatalytic diselenide contraction method for the dimerization and site-specific functionalisation of peptides and protein.