Volume 51, Issue 49 pp. 12263-12267
Communication

Chemistry as an Expanding Resource in Protein Science: Fully Synthetic and Fully Active Human Parathyroid Hormone-Related Protein (1141)

Dr. Jianfeng Li

Dr. Jianfeng Li

Laboratory for Bioorganic Chemistry, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065 (USA)

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Dr. Suwei Dong

Dr. Suwei Dong

Laboratory for Bioorganic Chemistry, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065 (USA)

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Dr. Steven D. Townsend

Dr. Steven D. Townsend

Laboratory for Bioorganic Chemistry, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065 (USA)

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Dr. Thomas Dean

Dr. Thomas Dean

Endocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 51 Blossom Street, Boston, MA (USA)

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Prof. Thomas J. Gardella

Prof. Thomas J. Gardella

Endocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 51 Blossom Street, Boston, MA (USA)

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Prof. Samuel J. Danishefsky

Corresponding Author

Prof. Samuel J. Danishefsky

Laboratory for Bioorganic Chemistry, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065 (USA)

Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, 3000 Broadway, New York, NY 10027 (USA)

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First published: 04 November 2012
Citations: 22

This research was supported by NIH grant HL25848 (S.J.D.). S.D.T. is grateful to Weill Cornell Medical School for an NIH postdoctoral fellowship (CA062948).

Graphical Abstract

The convergent synthesis of human parathyroid hormone-related protein (hPTHrP, see scheme) has been accomplished through iterative peptide ligations followed by global metal-free dethiylation. The biological activity of synthetic PTHrP has been demonstrated.

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