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CHEMICAL SCIENCE
Volume 13, Issue 18, Pages 5390-5397Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d1sc06942j
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- FWO Vlaanderen [G.0485.16N]
- UGent BOF
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This study presents a new method for site-selective labeling of tyrosine and tryptophan residues in peptides and proteins. By lowering the pH of the solution, selective labeling of tryptophan can be achieved. This method does not rely on enzymes or unnatural amino acids, making it a promising approach for bioconjugation.
Labelling of tyrosine residues in peptides and proteins has been reported to selectively occur via a 'tyrosine-click' reaction with triazolinedione reagents (TAD). However, we here demonstrate that TAD reagents are actually not selective for tyrosine and that tryptophan residues are in fact also labelled with these reagents. This off-target labelling remained under the radar as it is challenging to detect these physiologically stable but thermally labile modifications with the commonly used HCD and CID MS/MS techniques. We show that selectivity of tryptophan over tyrosine can be achieved by lowering the pH of the aqueous buffer to effect selective Trp-labelling. Given the low relative abundance of tryptophan compared to tyrosine in natural proteins, this results in a new site-selective bioconjugation method that does not rely on enzymes nor unnatural amino acids and is demonstrated for peptides and recombinant proteins.
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