Volume 52, Issue 31 pp. 8059-8063
Communication

Convergent Chemical Synthesis of Histone H2B Protein for the Site-Specific Ubiquitination at Lys34

Peter Siman

Peter Siman

Department of Chemistry, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105 (Israel) http://www.bgu.ac.il/∼abrik

These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Dr. Subramanian Vedhanarayanan Karthikeyan

Dr. Subramanian Vedhanarayanan Karthikeyan

Department of Chemistry, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105 (Israel) http://www.bgu.ac.il/∼abrik

These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Dr. Miroslav Nikolov

Dr. Miroslav Nikolov

Laboratory of Chromatin Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen 37077 (Germany)

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Dr. Wolfgang Fischle

Dr. Wolfgang Fischle

Laboratory of Chromatin Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen 37077 (Germany)

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Prof. Ashraf Brik

Corresponding Author

Prof. Ashraf Brik

Department of Chemistry, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105 (Israel) http://www.bgu.ac.il/∼abrik

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First published: 21 June 2013
Citations: 126

This work was supported by the Israel Science Foundation (A.B.) and the Max Planck Society (W.F.). P.S. gratefully acknowledges the Israel Ministry of Science and Technology for financial support.

Graphical Abstract

As You Like It: The convergent chemical synthesis of the histone H2B protein was achieved. This approach enabled the attachment of ubiquitin at Lys34 (see picture) and should make it possible to synthesize H2B with any other posttranslational modification in demand.

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