A tag-and-modify strategy has been developed that allows the practical synthesis of homogenous fluorinated glyco-amino acids, peptides and proteins carrying a fluorine label in the sugar, allowing access to the first set of examples of directly radiolabelled ([18F]-glyco)proteins.
Benjamin G. Davis and co-workers at the University of Oxford, in the UK, have published their findings in ChemComm, where the article is free to access until the end of September. So why not download the communication today and blog any thoughts and comments below.
