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Peptide-Based Drug Design

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Fig. 3. Schematic presentation of the design of the second-generation (4)M2e-S1-S2<br />

construct. The numbers indicate the number of amino acid residues in each peptide side<br />

chain.<br />

during the necessary dimerization reaction. Since an increasing amount of<br />

evidence suggests that the immunogenic part of the M2e fragment is embedded<br />

at the N-terminal half, the second-generation vaccine candidate is further<br />

simplified by eliminating eight C-terminal M2e residues. The linear lysinebased<br />

construct appears to be suitable for mimicking the M2 four-helix bundle.<br />

An analogous four-helix bundle of the bee venom melittin was successfully<br />

assembled on a similar scaffold, where alanines were placed in between melittin<br />

side chains 1 and 2 as well as 3 and 4, and a turn-forming Gly-Pro dipeptide<br />

between the melittin-carrier lysines 2 and 3 (17). In this chapter the synthetic<br />

strategy for the construction of the second-generation (4)M2e-S1-S2 construct<br />

is detailed.<br />

2. Materials<br />

2.1. Equipment<br />

1. PS3 automated peptide synthesizer (Protein Technologies) (see Note 1).<br />

2. Home-assembled gradient high-performance liquid chromatograph (HPLC)<br />

consisting of two Beckman-Coulter 110B pumps operated by a 421<br />

gradient controller, interchangeable Phenomenex Jupiter analytical/preparative<br />

columns, a Rainin Dynamax ultraviolet detector and a Shimadzu C-R6A<br />

integrator.<br />

3. BT53 tabletop lyophilizer (Millrock Technologies).<br />

4. Voyager DE MALDI time of flight (TOF) mass spectrometer (Applied<br />

Biosystems).<br />

5. Bio-Rad Protean II ready SDS-PAGE system.<br />

6. Shaker (Fisher Scientific).

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