Peptide bond cleavage adjacent to aspargine or glutamine

Peptide Bond Cleavage on Trypsintrypsin Inhibitor Complex Formation.

Branched Intermediate Formation Stimulates Peptide Bond Cleavage in Protein Splicing

Protein splicing is a post-translational modification in which an intein domain excises itself out of a host protein. Here, we investigate how the steps in the splicing process are coordinated so as to maximize the production of the final splice products and minimize the generation of undesired cleavage products. Our approach has been to prepare a branched intermediate (and analogs thereof) of ...

Collision-induced liquid secondary-ion mass spectra of oxytocin derivatives. A study of the influence of modifications in the disulfide bond on the adjacent peptide bond cleavage.

The influence of the inductive effect of modifications in the disulfide bridge in oxytocin analogs on the cleavage of the neighboring peptidic bond was studied. A correlation between the inductive constant of the group in the disulfide bridge and the particular fragment ion abundance was observed.

D-β-aspartyl residue exhibiting uncommon high resistance to spontaneous peptide bond cleavage

Although L-amino acids were selected as main constituents of peptides and proteins during chemical evolution, D-aspartyl (Asp) residue is found in a variety of living tissues. In particular, D-β-Asp is thought to be stable than any other Asp isomers, and this could be a reason for gradual accumulation in abnormal proteins and peptides to modify their structures and functions. It is predicted th...

Optimization of Nonenzymatic Microwave D-Cleavage and Disulfide Bond Cleavage

A nonenzymatic digestion technique allows proteins to be well suited for collision-induced dissociation tandem mass spectrometry. This method utilizes microwaves and Dithiothreitol (DTT) to selectively cleave at aspartic acid (D) and disulfide bonds. This microwave digestion technique is reproducible and produces peptides with a shortened sequence length. Insulin I is used in this study to opti...