Access to site-specific Fc-cRGD peptide conjugates through streamlined expressed protein ligation. Author S Frutos, J Jordan, M Bio, T Muir, O Thiel, M Vila-Perelló Publication Year 2016 Type Journal Article Abstract An ideal drug should be highly effective, non-toxic and be delivered by a convenient and painless single dose. We are still far from such optimal treatment but peptides, with their high target selectivity and low toxicity profiles, provide a very attractive platform from which to strive towards it. One of the major limitations of peptide drugs is their high clearance rates, which limit dosage regimen options. Conjugation to antibody Fc domains is a viable strategy to improve peptide stability by increasing their hydrodynamic radius and hijacking the Fc recycling pathway. We report the use of a split-intein based semi-synthetic approach to site-specifically conjugate a synthetic integrin binding peptide to an Fc domain. The strategy described here allows conjugating synthetic peptides to Fc domains, which is not possible via genetic methods, fully maintaining the ability of both the Fc domain and the bioactive peptide to interact with their binding partners. Keywords Humans, Binding Sites, Amino Acid Sequence, Hydrolysis, Peptides, Cyclic, Immunoglobulin Fc Fragments, Integrin alphaVbeta3 Journal Org Biomol Chem Volume 14 Issue 40 Pages 9549-9553 Date Published 2016 Oct 12 ISSN Number 1477-0539 DOI 10.1039/c6ob01833e Alternate Journal Org Biomol Chem PMCID PMC5978688 PMID 27722696 PubMedPubMed CentralGoogle ScholarBibTeXEndNote X3 XML