Issue 7, 2021

Traceless parallel peptide purification by a first-in-class reductively cleavable linker system featuring a safety-release

Abstract

Hundreds of peptides can be synthesized by automated parallel synthesizers in a single run. In contrast, the most widely used peptide purification method – high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) – only allows one-by-one processing of each sample. The chromatographic purification of many peptides, therefore, remains a time-consuming and costly effort. Catch-and-release methods can be processed in parallel and potentially provide a remedy. However, no such system has yet provided a true alternative to HPLC. Herein we present the development of a side-reaction free, reductively cleavable linker. The linker is added to the target peptide as the last building block during peptide synthesis. After acidic cleavage from synthetic resin, the linker-tagged full-length peptide is caught onto an aldehyde-modified solid support by rapid oxime ligation, allowing removal of all impurities lacking the linker by washing. Reducing the aryl azide to an aniline sensitizes the linker for cleavage. However, scission does not occur at non-acidic pH enabling wash out of reducing agent. Final acidic treatment safely liberates the peptide by an acid-catalysed 1,6-elimination. We showcase this first-in-class reductively cleavable linker system in the parallel purification of a personalized neoantigen cocktail, containing 20 peptides for cancer immunotherapy within six hours.

Graphical abstract: Traceless parallel peptide purification by a first-in-class reductively cleavable linker system featuring a safety-release

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Article information

Article type
Edge Article
Submitted
13 nov 2020
Accepted
07 jan 2021
First published
03 feb 2021
This article is Open Access

All publication charges for this article have been paid for by the Royal Society of Chemistry
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Chem. Sci., 2021,12, 2389-2396

Traceless parallel peptide purification by a first-in-class reductively cleavable linker system featuring a safety-release

R. Zitterbart, N. Berger, O. Reimann, G. T. Noble, S. Lüdtke, D. Sarma and O. Seitz, Chem. Sci., 2021, 12, 2389 DOI: 10.1039/D0SC06285E

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