Synthetic biology: bottom-up assembly of molecular systems

S Hirschi, TR Ward, WP Meier, DJ Müller… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The bottom-up assembly of biological and chemical components opens exciting
opportunities to engineer artificial vesicular systems for applications with previously unmet …

Biospecific Chemistry for Covalent Linking of Biomacromolecules

L Cao, L Wang - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Interactions among biomacromolecules, predominantly noncovalent, underpin biological
processes. However, recent advancements in biospecific chemistry have enabled the …

Advances in chemical protein modification

O Boutureira, GJL Bernardes - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Chemical protein modification has emerged as an invaluable tool for the development of
modified proteins. The complementary use of both genetic and chemical methods has …

Playing with the molecules of life

DD Young, PG Schultz - ACS chemical biology, 2018 - ACS Publications
Our understanding of the complex molecular processes of living organisms at the molecular
level is growing exponentially. This knowledge, together with a powerful arsenal of tools for …

Engineering pyrrolysine systems for genetic code expansion and reprogramming

DL Dunkelmann, JW Chin - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Over the past 16 years, genetic code expansion and reprogramming in living organisms has
been transformed by advances that leverage the unique properties of pyrrolysyl-tRNA …

Recent advances in the improvement of enzyme thermostability by structure modification

Z Xu, YK Cen, SP Zou, YP Xue… - Critical reviews in …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Thermostability is considered to be an important parameter to measure the feasibility of
enzymes for industrial applications. Generally, higher thermostability makes an enzyme …

[HTML][HTML] Developing covalent protein drugs via proximity-enabled reactive therapeutics

Q Li, Q Chen, PC Klauser, M Li, F Zheng, N Wang, X Li… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Small molecule covalent drugs provide desirable therapeutic properties over noncovalent
ones for treating challenging diseases. The potential of covalent protein drugs, however …

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 …

Genetically encoded chemical crosslinking of carbohydrate

S Li, N Wang, B Yu, W Sun, L Wang - Nature chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
Protein–carbohydrate interactions play important roles in various biological processes, such
as organism development, cancer metastasis, pathogen infection and immune response, but …

Genetically Encoding Fluorosulfate-l-tyrosine To React with Lysine, Histidine, and Tyrosine via SuFEx in Proteins in Vivo

N Wang, B Yang, C Fu, H Zhu, F Zheng… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Introducing new chemical reactivity into proteins in living cells would endow innovative
covalent bonding ability to proteins for research and engineering in vivo. Latent bioreactive …