Genetic Code Expansion Approaches to Decipher the Ubiquitin Code

V Wanka, M Fottner, M Cigler, K Lang - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
The covalent attachment of Ub (ubiquitin) to target proteins (ubiquitylation) represents one of
the most versatile PTMs (post-translational modifications) in eukaryotic cells. Substrate …

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 …

Site-specific incorporation of phosphotyrosine using an expanded genetic code

C Hoppmann, A Wong, B Yang, S Li, T Hunter… - Nature chemical …, 2017 - nature.com
Access to phosphoproteins with stoichiometric and site-specific phosphorylation status is
key to understanding the role of protein phosphorylation. Here we report an efficient method …

Acetylation, phosphorylation, ubiquitination (oh my!): Following post-translational modifications on the ubiquitin road

RE Lacoursiere, D Hadi, GS Shaw - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Ubiquitination is controlled by a series of E1, E2, and E3 enzymes that can ligate ubiquitin to
cellular proteins and dictate the turnover of a substrate and the outcome of signalling events …

Enhanced access to the human phosphoproteome with genetically encoded phosphothreonine

JM Moen, K Mohler, S Rogulina, X Shi, H Shen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Protein phosphorylation is a ubiquitous post-translational modification used to regulate
cellular processes and proteome architecture by modulating protein-protein interactions …

Protein engineering in the ubiquitin system: tools for discovery and beyond

B Zhao, YC Tsai, B Jin, B Wang, Y Wang, H Zhou… - Pharmacological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Ubiquitin (UB) transfer cascades consisting of E1, E2, and E3 enzymes constitute a complex
network that regulates a myriad of biologic processes by modifying protein substrates …

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 …

Selenocysteine insertion at a predefined UAG codon in a release factor 1 (RF1)-depleted Escherichia coli host strain bypasses species barriers in recombinant …

Q Cheng, ESJ Arnér - Journal of biological chemistry, 2017 - ASBMB
Selenoproteins contain the amino acid selenocysteine (Sec), co-translationally inserted at a
predefined UGA opal codon by means of Sec-specific translation machineries. In …

Recent development of genetic code expansion for posttranslational modification studies

H Chen, S Venkat, P McGuire, Q Gan, C Fan - Molecules, 2018 - mdpi.com
Nowadays advanced mass spectrometry techniques make the identification of protein
posttranslational modifications (PTMs) much easier than ever before. A series of proteomic …

A molecular engineering toolbox for the structural biologist

GT Debelouchina, TW Muir - Quarterly reviews of biophysics, 2017 - cambridge.org
Exciting new technological developments have pushed the boundaries of structural biology,
and have enabled studies of biological macromolecules and assemblies that would have …