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Design and Production of Specifically and with High Affinity Reacting Peptides (SHARP®-s)
Jan C. Biro

Abstract: A partially random target selection method was developed to design and produce affinity reagents (target) to any protein query. It is based on the recent concept of Proteomic Code which suggests that significant number of amino acids in specifically interacting proteins are coded by partially complementary codons. It means that the 1st and 3rd residues of codons coding many co-locating amino acids are complementary but the 2nd may but not necessarily complementary: like 5’-AXG-3’/3’-CXT-5’ codon pair, where X is any nucleotide. A mixture of 45 residue long, reverse, partially complementary oligonucleotide sequences (target pool) were synthesized to selected epitopes of query mRNA sequences. The 2nd codon residues were randomized. The target oligonucleotide pool was inserted into vectors, expressed and the protein products were screened for affinity to the query in Bacterial Two-Hybrid System. The best clones were used for larger-scale protein syntheses and characterization. It was possible to design and produce specific and with high affinity reacting (Kd ~100 nM) oligopeptide reagents to GAL4 query oligopeptides.

How to cite this article
Jan C. Biro , 2008. Design and Production of Specifically and with High Affinity Reacting Peptides (SHARP®-s). Research Journal of Biological Sciences, 3: 635-643.

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