Conversion of cysteinyl residues to unnatural amino acid analogs. Examination in a model system |
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Authors: | John F Schindler and Ronald E Viola |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Chemistry, University of Akron, 44325-3601 Akron, Ohio |
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Abstract: | Improved and efficient techniques have led to an explosive growth in the application of site-directed mutagenesis to the study of enzymes. However, the limited availability of only those 20 amino acids that are translated by the genetic code has prevented the systematic variation of an amino acid's properties in order to define more precisely its role in the catalytic mechanism of an enzyme. An approach is being examined that combines the high specificity of site-directed mutagenesis with the flexibility of chemical modification to overcome these limitations. A set of reagents has been synthesized and reacted with a cysteine model to produce a series of amino acid structural analogs at appreciable rates and in good overall yields. The selective incorporation of these analogs in place of important functional amino acids in a protein will allow a more detailed examination of the role of that amino acid. |
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Keywords: | Cysteine modification unnatural amino acids model study amino acid analogs |
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