Protein ligation sorted: SrtA is one of the molecules nature uses to perform chemoselective ligation on amazingly complex protein molecules. Sortase-mediated ligation (SML) with chemoselective reactions will find a variety of applications in chemistry, biology, and medicine in the near future.

Through various examples, we demonstrated serine as an excellent building block for the design of chiral and non-chiral self-assembled materials. The fine parameters such as pitch, angle and helicity can be altered using clever molecular engineering.

Sortase-Based Bio-Organic Strategies for Macromolecular Synthesis -[44 refs. + subrefs.]. -(HARIDAS*, V.; SADANANDAN, S.; DHEEPTHI, N. U.; ChemBioChem 15 (2014) 13, 1857-1867, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cbic.201402013 ; Dep. Chem., Indian Inst. Technol. Delhi, New Delhi 110 016, India; Eng.) -Koehler 47-292