Skip to main content
Go to the home page of the European Commission (opens in new window)
English en
CORDIS - EU research results
CORDIS
Content archived on 2024-06-18

Polymer conjugation of peptides/salmon calcitonin for increased efficacy

Objective

This project is concerned with the development of a new peptide conjugation strategy which has the potential to overcome the limitations of the, commercially successful, conventional pegylation with linear polymers. In addition it will explore the application of single electron transfer living radical polymerization (SET-LRP) for this purpose. Project Objectives 1. Synthesis and characterization of α-functional comb polymers by living radical polymerization 2. Hydrolysis studies of polymers and polymer conjugates 3. Evaluation of SET-LRP for synthesis of conjugates 4. Conjugation of polymers to salmon calcitonin 5. Purification and isolation of conjugates 6. Gastric peptide stability testing 7. Use of tryptic digestion to confirm conjugation site(s) 8. In vitro cAMP bio assays for sCT activity

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

Keywords

Topic(s)

Call for proposal

FP7-PEOPLE-IEF-2008
See other projects for this call

Funding Scheme

MC-IEF - Intra-European Fellowships (IEF)

Coordinator

UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK
EU contribution
€ 182 484,78
Address
KIRBY CORNER ROAD UNIVERSITY HOUSE
CV4 8UW COVENTRY
United Kingdom
Region
West Midlands (England) West Midlands Coventry
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Links
Total cost
No data