Zhang Lei, Zheng Lifei, Meng Zhuojun, Balinin Konstantin, Loznik Mark, Herrmann Andreas
Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2017 Jun 8;53(47):6331-6334. doi: 10.1039/c7cc02500a.
The speed-up of covalent bond formation was achieved between a sulfhydryl group and a 2-bromopropionic acid derivative by utilizing sliding peptide-modified substrates. Moreover, a new type of DNA cleaving reagent was developed, consisting of pVIc covalently coupled to verteporfin. This peptide-porphyrin conjugate allowed targeting of DNA and resulted in increased photodegradation of double-stranded nucleic acids.