Noncanonical amino acids in biocatalysis

Z Birch-Price, FJ Hardy, TM Lister, AR Kohn… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
In recent years, powerful genetic code reprogramming methods have emerged that allow
new functional components to be embedded into proteins as noncanonical amino acid …

Cracking the code: reprogramming the genetic script in prokaryotes and eukaryotes to harness the power of noncanonical amino acids

C Jann, S Giofré, R Bhattacharjee, EA Lemke - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Over 500 natural and synthetic amino acids have been genetically encoded in the last two
decades. Incorporating these noncanonical amino acids into proteins enables many …

Recent advances in biocatalysis with chemical modification and expanded amino acid alphabet

AD Pagar, MD Patil, DT Flood, TH Yoo… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The two main strategies for enzyme engineering, directed evolution and rational design,
have found widespread applications in improving the intrinsic activities of proteins. Although …

Cellular Site-Specific Incorporation of Noncanonical Amino Acids in Synthetic Biology

W Niu, J Guo - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Over the past two decades, genetic code expansion (GCE)-enabled methods for
incorporating noncanonical amino acids (ncAAs) into proteins have significantly advanced …

Microbial nanowires for sustainable electronics

MJ Guberman-Pfeffer, NM Dorval Courchesne… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Microbial protein nanowires are emerging as an alternative to abiotic nanowires for
electronics applications. Microbial nanowires are sustainably produced, robust, non-toxic …

Recent developments in the cleavage, functionalization, and conjugation of proteins and peptides at tyrosine residues

S Zhang, LMDL Rodriguez, FF Li, MA Brimble - Chemical Science, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Peptide and protein selective modification at tyrosine residues has become an exploding
field of research as tyrosine constitutes a robust alternative to lysine and cysteine-targeted …

Oxidation-induced “one-pot” click chemistry

B Albada, JF Keijzer, H Zuilhof, F van Delft - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Click chemistry has been established rapidly as one of the most valuable methods for the
chemical transformation of complex molecules. Due to the rapid rates, clean conversions to …

Functional analysis of protein post‐translational modifications using genetic codon expansion

T Peng, T Das, K Ding, HC Hang - Protein Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Post‐translational modifications (PTMs) of proteins not only exponentially increase the
diversity of proteoforms, but also contribute to dynamically modulating the localization …

Orthogonal Translation for Site-Specific Installation of Post-translational Modifications

Q Gan, C Fan - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) endow proteins with new properties to respond to
environmental changes or growth needs. With the development of advanced proteomics …

Chimeric design of pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase/tRNA pairs and canonical synthetase/tRNA pairs for genetic code expansion

W Ding, H Zhao, Y Chen, B Zhang, Y Yang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
An orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase/tRNA pair is a crucial prerequisite for site-specific
incorporation of unnatural amino acids. Due to its high codon suppression efficiency and full …