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Big pharmaceutical companies have begun to refocus their efforts towards peptide discovery projects with the hopes of identifying the next big peptide drug. There are often hundreds to thousands of pe...
Covalent stapling strategies that stabilize a particular secondary structure have garnered much attention as interest in peptide therapeutics continues to grow. One such strategy - using olefin-bearin...
In a previous post, I evaluated how flow rate can impact my purification efficiency using flash chromatography. I noticed though, that my peptide eluted significantly later with high mobile phase flow...
Red Glead Discovery (RGD) is a pre-clinical drug discovery CRO offering a broad range of services to Life Science clients. With a focus on small molecules and peptides, their drug discovery platform r...
Every now and then I work with new groups as they embark on a journey incorporating peptides and peptide synthesis into their research. More often than not, no one in the group has experience with pep...
Side reactions. Words that cause a little shiver to run down every peptide chemists’ spine.
Aspartimide rearrangements are a particularly nasty side reaction that can occur during fmoc-based solid phase peptide synthesis. Not only is this a mass-neutral side reaction, chromatographically res...
Almost all the peptides I have synthesized were subsequently purified using a reversed-phase C18 column. Sometimes this worked, but sometimes it didn’t work so well. When my C18 purifications failed, ...
Ion pairing agents are used in a variety of strategies to improve overall purification efficiency.
We've all used mass spectrometry to characterize our synthetic peptides. It's often used to confirm that the peptide was in fact synthesized, then again as part of the purification process to make sur...