Saturday, October 1, 2011

N-PEGylation of a Reverse Turn Is Stabilizing in Multiple Sequence Contexts, unlike N-GlcNAcylation


Protein stabilization is an important issue in Biology. Conjugation of poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) oligomer onto a folded protein can improve shelf life and protein thermodynamic stability. In this article, allowing N-PEGylation to occur in various sequence contexts, PEGylation stabilizes native proteins compared to N-GlcNAcylation which is stabilized only in a particular sequence context. 

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