The free thiol group of H-CREKA-NH2 peptide was used to form a thioether bond with the maleimide moiety of a functionalized fatty acid derivative (Supplementary Scheme S2B). Twenty mg of DSPE-PEG2000-Mal was dissolved in N2-purged PBS buffer (pH = 7), and the peptide compound (2 equiv.) was added into the solution in 10 equal portions under one hour. After a 20 h reaction time at RT, the compounds were separated by RP-HPLC. The fractions with conjugates were lyophilized before the MS characterization.
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