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Combining biological and chemical diversity

Nature Chemistry volume 13, pages 512–513 (2021)Cite this article

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Phage display enables screening of billions of peptides comprised mainly of natural amino acids. Now, a method to attach and encode a range of structurally diverse compounds has been reported. This method can expand the chemical space covered by phage display peptide libraries.

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Fig. 1: Illustration of the approach to diversify phage-encoded peptide libraries by appending chemical compounds.

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Heinis, C. Combining biological and chemical diversity. Nat. Chem. 13, 512–513 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-021-00722-1

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