Chemical synthesis of an octadecapeptide with the biological and immunological properties of human heat-stable Escherichia coli enterotoxin - PubMed (original) (raw)

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Chemical synthesis of an octadecapeptide with the biological and immunological properties of human heat-stable Escherichia coli enterotoxin

R A Houghten et al. Eur J Biochem. 1984.

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Abstract

An eighteen-amino-acid peptide having the linear amino acid sequence of human heat-stable enterotoxin (ST) has been synthesized by solid phase peptide synthesis. The purified peptide could be obtained in yields approaching 25% after purification by size, charge, and high-performance ligand chromatography. This material was pure and identical to native ST by analytical high-performance ligand chromatography, amino acid analysis, paper electrophoresis and thin-layer chromatography. The formation of the disulfide bonds was critical for biological and immunological activity and were tentatively determined to be between cysteines 5 and 14, 6 and 10, and 9 and 17. This synthetic peptide had full immunological and biological activity when compared to native ST by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and the suckling mouse assay respectively.

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