Thiol-based redox switches

B Groitl, U Jakob - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Proteins and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Regulation of protein function through thiol-based redox switches plays an important role in
the response and adaptation to local and global changes in the cellular levels of reactive …

Protein splicing: how inteins escape from precursor proteins

KV Mills, MA Johnson, FB Perler - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2014 - ASBMB
Inteins are nature's escape artists; they facilitate their excision from flanking polypeptides
(exteins) concomitant with extein ligation to produce a mature host protein. Splicing requires …

Recent advances in in vivo applications of intein-mediated protein splicing

NI Topilina, KV Mills - Mobile Dna, 2014 - Springer
Intein-mediated protein splicing has become an essential tool in modern biotechnology.
Fundamental progress in the structure and catalytic strategies of cis-and trans-splicing …

Enigmatic distribution, evolution, and function of inteins

O Novikova, N Topilina, M Belfort - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2014 - ASBMB
Inteins are mobile genetic elements capable of self-splicing post-translationally. They exist
in all three domains of life including in viruses and bacteriophage, where they have a …

The evolution of intein-based affinity methods as reflected in 30 years of patent history

SV Prabhala, I Gierach, DW Wood - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Self-cleaving affinity tags, based on engineered intein protein domains, have been touted as
a universal single step purification platform for tagless non-mAb proteins. These approaches …

An Engineered Split Intein for Photoactivated Protein Trans-Splicing

S Wong, AA Mosabbir, K Truong - PLoS One, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Protein splicing is mediated by inteins that auto-catalytically join two separated protein
fragments with a peptide bond. Here we engineered a genetically encoded synthetic …

Reducing volumetric shrinkage of photopolymerizable materials using reversible disulfide-bond reactions

J Chen, S Jiang, Y Gao, F Sun - Journal of Materials Science, 2018 - Springer
We introduce a new strategy for reduction in volumetric shrinkage of free radical
photopolymerization. Our strategy is based on the reversible reaction of disulfide bonds …

Generation of a genetically encoded, photoactivatable intein for the controlled production of cyclic peptides

JK Böcker, K Friedel, JCJ Matern… - Angewandte …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Cyclic peptides are important natural products and hold great promise for the identification of
new bioactive molecules. The split‐intein‐mediated SICLOPPS technology provides a …

Mycobacterial DnaB helicase intein as oxidative stress sensor

DS Kelley, CW Lennon, Z Li, MR Miller… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Inteins are widespread self-splicing protein elements emerging as potential post-
translational environmental sensors. Here, we describe two inteins within one protein, the …

A mesophilic cysteine-less split intein for protein trans-splicing applications under oxidizing conditions

M Bhagawati, TME Terhorst, F Füsser… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Split intein-mediated protein trans-splicing has found extensive applications in chemical
biology, protein chemistry, and biotechnology. However, an enduring limitation of all well …