Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Peptide Libary Design Tool

Bio-Synthesis has implemented peptide libary tools to its rapid high-throughput parallel peptide synthesis platform. These libraries can be used to screen highly active compounds such as antigenic peptides, receptor ligands, antimicrobial compounds, and enzyme inhibitors. Some of the applications of peptide screening tools are as follows:
  • Epitope mapping studies.
  • Vaccine research.
  • High-throughput protein interaction analysis.
  • Customized peptide microarray production.
  • Kinase assays.
These six powerful peptide library generation tools provide client with the ability to generate large numbers of screening peptide which involves epitope mapping, sequence optimzation, and sequence stabilization. Epitope mapping requires the construction of overlapping peptide libraries, which can be customized by adjusting the fragment length and offset number for the optimum balance between low costs and high data value. In addition to overlapping peptide libaries, Bio-Synthesis offer five additional systematic peptide libary screening service tools featuring different strategies for sequence optimization.

Alanine Peptide Scanning Library: The generation of peptide library in which alanine (Ala, A) is systematically substituted into each of the amino acids which can be used to identify epitope activity.

Positional Peptide Library: A selected position in a peptide sequence is systematically replaced with different amino acid to show the effect on the substitute amino acid at certain position.

Truncation Pepitde Library: The truncation libary is been used to predict the minimum amino acid length required for optimum epitope activity.

Random Peptide Library: It's constructed by substituting selected positions on the original peptide randomly and simultaneously with all other natural amino acids in a shot gun approach with a purpose to elucidate potential alternatives for enhanced peptide activity.

Scramble Peptide Library: Scramble Library is constructed by carrying out permutation on the original peptide's sequence. It has the potential to give all possible alternatives and offers and represents the highest degree of variability for peptide library.

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