Selection of trypsin inhibitors in phage peptide library

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
R FangJ Shen

Abstract

The newly developed techniques of peptide libraries have become a conventional and efficient method in screening ligands of proteins of interest. We present here the successful results of selection of trypsin inhibitors in a phage hexapeptide library. After affinity selection and activity assay, peptide sequences, deduced from DNA sequencing of the phage peptides with the most striking trypsin activity, share some common features with trypsin inhibitors reported. All of the phage peptides selected out and those native and synthetic trypsin inhibitors reported are composed of three parts: (a) positively charged part (Arg, Lys or their analogs); (b) polar part that may form hydrogen bonds with Ser in the active site of trypsin; (c) hydrophobic part that interacts with the nonpolar region of trypsin active site.

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