Bioorthogonal chemistry: fishing for selectivity in a sea of functionality

EM Sletten, CR Bertozzi - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The study of biomolecules in their native environments is a challenging task because of the
vast complexity of cellular systems. Technologies developed in the last few years for the …

Adding new chemistries to the genetic code

CC Liu, PG Schultz - Annual review of biochemistry, 2010 - annualreviews.org
The development of new orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase/tRNA pairs has led to the
addition of approximately 70 unnatural amino acids (UAAs) to the genetic codes of …

Recent progress in enzymatic protein labelling techniques and their applications

Y Zhang, KY Park, KF Suazo… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Protein-based conjugates are valuable constructs for a variety of applications. Conjugation
of proteins to fluorophores is commonly used to study their cellular localization and the …

Pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase: an ordinary enzyme but an outstanding genetic code expansion tool

W Wan, JM Tharp, WR Liu - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Proteins …, 2014 - Elsevier
The genetic incorporation of the 22nd proteinogenic amino acid, pyrrolysine (Pyl) at amber
codon is achieved by the action of pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase (PylRS) together with its …

Genome‐scale engineering for systems and synthetic biology

KM Esvelt, HH Wang - Molecular systems biology, 2013 - embopress.org
Genome‐modification technologies enable the rational engineering and perturbation of
biological systems. Historically, these methods have been limited to gene insertions or …

Photo-leucine and photo-methionine allow identification of protein-protein interactions in living cells

M Suchanek, A Radzikowska, C Thiele - Nature methods, 2005 - nature.com
Protein-protein interactions are the key to organizing cellular processes in space and time.
The only direct way to identify such interactions in their cellular environment is by photo …

Cell‐free protein synthesis: pros and cons of prokaryotic and eukaryotic systems

A Zemella, L Thoring, C Hoffmeister, S Kubick - ChemBioChem, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
From its start as a small‐scale in vitro system to study fundamental translation processes,
cell‐free protein synthesis quickly rose to become a potent platform for the high‐yield …

Nucleic acid and peptide aptamers: fundamentals and bioanalytical aspects

M Mascini, I Palchetti, S Tombelli - … Chemie International Edition, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years new nucleic acid and protein‐based combinatorial molecules have attracted
the attention of researchers working in various areas of science, ranging from medicine to …

The non-protein amino acid BMAA is misincorporated into human proteins in place of L-serine causing protein misfolding and aggregation

RA Dunlop, PA Cox, SA Banack, KJ Rodgers - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Mechanisms of protein misfolding are of increasing interest in the aetiology of
neurodegenerative diseases characterized by protein aggregation and tangles including …

Sequence-based prediction of the intrinsic solubility of peptides containing non-natural amino acids

M Oeller, RJD Kang, HL Bolt… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Non-natural amino acids are increasingly used as building blocks in the development of
peptide-based drugs as they expand the available chemical space to tailor function, half-life …