| Literature DB >> 20536128 |
Chutima Jiarpinitnun1, Laura L Kiessling.
Abstract
Polyethylene glycol (PEG) is widely used, and many biologically active molecules are modified with oligoethylene glycol substituents to enhance their half-lives in circulation. The pervasive use of PEG substituents is partly due to their presumed inertness. Our investigation of formyl peptide receptor (FPR)-mediated chemotaxis reveals that oligoethylene glycol substitution can enhance the ability of the peptide chemoattractant N-formyl-methionine-leucine-phenylalanine (fMLF) to activate signal transduction through FPR, a transmembrane G-protein-coupled receptor.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20536128 PMCID: PMC2913153 DOI: 10.1021/ja102640c
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Am Chem Soc ISSN: 0002-7863 Impact factor: 15.419