Peptide complexation in water
Peptide complexation in water
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肽在水中的络合
DOI:
10.1016/s0040-4039(00)78233-5
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发表时间:
1994
影响因子:
1.8
通讯作者:
W. Still
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文献类型:
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作者:
H. Wennemers;W. Still
Many commercially available dyes bind certain acylated tripeptides with high selectivity on hydrophilic poly (ethylene glycol)-polystyrene beads in water.One of the most common methods for assessing substrate/receptor binding entails labeling a substrate or receptor with a colored or fluorescent dye. Such labeling is used in a number of important biological marking techniques including immunofluorescence and fluorescence-based zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcb in situ hybridization. It has recently zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA been used to probe the binding of small biological molecules to synthetic receptors. 1 Whatever the system, binding studies using labeled material assume that the presence of label does not significantly alter receptor-substrate binding. In fact, we find that many common dyes associate wtth peptides in water with substantial selectivity for their amino acid composition or sequence. Our results indicate that dyes in binding assays need to be chosen with great care to avoid label-induced artifacts. They also suggest novel structural motifs that may be used as the basis of new sequence-selective receptors for peptides.