Dissecting the role of protein phosphorylation: a chemical biology toolbox

T Bilbrough, E Piemontese, O Seitz - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Protein phosphorylation is a crucial regulator of protein and cellular function, yet, despite
identifying an enormous number of phosphorylation sites, the role of most is still unclear …

Deciphering protein post-translational modifications using chemical biology tools

AC Conibear - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Proteins carry out a wide variety of catalytic, regulatory, signalling and structural functions in
living systems. Following their assembly on ribosomes and throughout their lifetimes, most …

Elongation Factor P Modulates the Incorporation of Structurally Diverse Noncanonical Amino Acids into Escherichia coli Dihydrofolate Reductase

SM Daskalova, LM Dedkova, R Maini… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The introduction of noncanonical amino acids into proteins and peptides has been of great
interest for many years and has facilitated the detailed study of peptide/protein structure and …

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 …

Cell-free approach for non-canonical amino acids incorporation into polypeptides

Z Cui, WA Johnston, K Alexandrov - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Synthetic biology holds promise to revolutionize the life sciences and biomedicine via
expansion of macromolecular diversity outside the natural chemical space. Use of non …

Genetic Encoding of Phosphorylated Amino Acids into Proteins

MC Allen, PA Karplus, RA Mehl, RB Cooley - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Reversible phosphorylation is a fundamental mechanism for controlling protein function.
Despite the critical roles phosphorylated proteins play in physiology and disease, our ability …

Expanding the scope of protein synthesis using modified ribosomes

LM Dedkova, SM Hecht - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The ribosome produces all of the proteins and many of the peptides present in cells. As a
macromolecular complex composed of both RNAs and proteins, it employs a constituent …

Recent advances in synthetic and medicinal chemistry of phosphotyrosine and phosphonate-based phosphotyrosine analogues

N Makukhin, A Ciulli - RSC Medicinal Chemistry, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Phosphotyrosine-containing compounds attract significant attention due to their potential to
modulate signalling pathways by binding to phospho-writers, erasers and readers such as …

Recent advances in genetic code expansion techniques for protein phosphorylation studies

X Qin, T Liu - Journal of Molecular Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Protein phosphorylation is a reversible, residue-specific posttranslational modification that
plays a pivotal role in cell signaling, and the phosphorylation state of proteins is tightly …

Genetic encoding of a nonhydrolyzable phosphotyrosine analog in mammalian cells

X He, B Ma, Y Chen, J Guo, W Niu - Chemical Communications, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Protein tyrosine phosphorylation plays a critical role in signal transduction. We report the
genetic incorporation of a phosphotyrosine (pTyr) analog, p-carboxymethyl-L-phenylalanine …