“…NCL involves the preparation of an unprotected C-thioester peptide that allows reaction with an unprotected N-terminal Cys to render first the thioester involving the thiol of the Cys, which rearranges to form the natural amide bond (Figure 1). This technique has allowed the synthesis of difficult, large peptides, and proteins (Camarero and Muir, 1999;Camarero et al, 2001;Miller et al, 2003;Avital-Shmilovici et al, 2013;Okamoto et al, 2014a,b;Boll et al, 2015;Pala-Pujadas et al, 2018;Snella et al, 2018;Spengler et al, 2018;Ashhurst et al, 2019;Sun and Brik, 2019;Jbara et al, 2020;Serra et al, 2020).…”