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Product category: Proteomics
News Release from: AnaSpec | Subject: Fmoc-Lys(5-FAM)-Rink Amide resin
Edited by the Laboratorytalk Editorial Team on 16 April 2007

Fluorescent peptide synthesis methods
compared

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At the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities 2007 annual conference, AnaSpec presented a technical poster that compared the synthesis of a fluorescent peptide using two types of resins

The results of the poster indicated that the use of an unprotected resin was just as effective as using a protected resin for the synthesis of a 5-FAM labelled peptide Many Fret (fluorescent resonance energy transfer) peptides, as well as non-Fret peptides, requiring C-terminal fluorescent labels can be accomplished using either solution phase or solid phase synthesis

In solid phase synthesis, the use of the fluorophore, 5-carboxyfluorescein (5-FAM) generates stable amide bonds.

In order to help facilitate the synthesis of C-terminal fluorescent peptides, AnaSpec prepared and performed comparison studies using two kinds of resins, Fmoc-Lys(5-FAM)-Rink Amide resin (I) and Fmoc-Lys[5-FAM(trt)]-Rink Amide resin (II), the latter contains a phenolic hydroxyl group protected with a trityl group.

The results of these studies showed that resin (I) is adequate for synthesis of C-terminal fluorescent labelled peptide.

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