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Identification of Peptide Ligands Specific for the Sugar-Binding Site of Concanavalin A by Screening a Synthetic Peptide Combinatorial Library

PerSeptive Biosystems, 500 Old Connectict Path, Framingham, MA 01701 and Ares Advanced Technology, 280 Pond St., Randolph, MA 02368

Lee W. Herman

PerSeptive Biosystems, 500 Old Connectict Path, Framingham, MA 01701 and Millenium Pharmaceuticals, 1 Kendall Square, Building 300, Cambridge, MA 02139

We describe a method, using an automated multiple-column chromatographic approach, for identifying a ligand from a peptide library (containing greater than 2.48 x 106 unique peptides) with specificity for the sugar-binding site of the lectin Concanavalin A. The method used an immobilized target to capture moieties from the library as the latter flowed through a chromatographic column. Due to the complexity of the initial library, it was not possible to select for individual peptide sequences with high affinity and specificity for the sugar binding site. However, identification of peptides which specifically bound to the target at this site was possible using subtractive pool sequencing of affinity captured material. The latter technique involved sequencing the peptides retained (after washing the column for a fixed time) in the presence and absence of an excess of the known ligand for the target, methyl a-D-mannopyranoside. Comparisons between the proportion of each amino acid at each sequencing cycle in the absence or presence of an excess of sugar resulted in a peptide sequence of enriched amino acids of the formula HxxSx (where x represents any one of the natural amino acids except cysteine). This sublibrary (containing-6859 individual peptides) was synthesized and rescreened. Two peptide sequences (HHRSY and HVVSV) were identified with relatively high affinity for the sugar-binding site of Concanavalin A. The described technique of solution-phase subtractive pool sequencing (Patent pending) can be employed for rapidly screening highly complex mixtures of peptides and obtaining information about the amino acids within the sequences that are essential for binding to a particular site on the target. This technique could also be applied to other combinatorial mixtures (e.g., PNAs, nucleic acids, or libraries composed of either non-natural or D-amino acids) where a defined number of discrete components are synthesized in a variety of permutations.

Journal of Biomolecular Screening, Vol. 2, No. 4, 225-233 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/108705719700200407


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