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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Biosyst. 2012 Oct;8(10):2484–2493. doi: 10.1039/c2mb25122a

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Oxidation of an N-terminal Ser or Thr residue of a protein or peptide. An electrophilic site is specifically generated at the N-terminus of the substrate enabling selective bioconjugation at this position. The requirement for the β-amino alcohol motif precludes the use of this transformation is a wide variety of substrates.