Fusion tags for protein solubility, purification and immunogenicity in Escherichia coli: the novel Fh8 system

S Costa, A Almeida, A Castro… - Frontiers in microbiology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Proteins are now widely produced in diverse microbial cell factories. The Escherichia coli is
still the dominant host for recombinant protein production but, as a bacterial cell, it also has …

Recombinant protein expression and purification: a comprehensive review of affinity tags and microbial applications

CL Young, ZT Britton, AS Robinson - Biotechnology journal, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Protein fusion tags are indispensible tools used to improve recombinant protein expression
yields, enable protein purification, and accelerate the characterization of protein structure …

Structure, function and evolution of glutathione transferases: implications for classification of non-mammalian members of an ancient enzyme superfamily

D Sheehan, G Meade, VM Foley… - Biochemical journal, 2001 - portlandpress.com
The glutathione transferases (GSTs; also known as glutathione S-transferases) are major
phase II detoxification enzymes found mainly in the cytosol. In addition to their role in …

Overview of tag protein fusions: from molecular and biochemical fundamentals to commercial systems

K Terpe - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2003 - Springer
In response to the rapidly growing field of proteomics, the use of recombinant proteins has
increased greatly in recent years. Recombinant hybrids containing a polypeptide fusion …

Addition of p-Azido-l-phenylalanine to the Genetic Code of Escherichia coli

JW Chin, SW Santoro, AB Martin, DS King… - Journal of the …, 2002 - ACS Publications
We report the selection of a new orthogonal aminoacyl tRNA synthetase/tRNA pair for the in
vivo incorporation of a photocrosslinker, p-azido-l-phenylalanine, into proteins in response …

Structure, catalytic mechanism, and evolution of the glutathione transferases

RN Armstrong - Chemical research in toxicology, 1997 - ACS Publications
The discovery in 1961 of a catalytic activity for the addition of glutathione (GSH) to 1, 2-
dichloro-4-nitrobenzene in cytosolic extracts of liver (1, 2) initiated three decades of …

Addition of a photocrosslinking amino acid to the genetic code of Escherichia coli

JW Chin, AB Martin, DS King… - Proceedings of the …, 2002 - National Acad Sciences
Benzophenones are among the most useful photocrosslinking agents in biology. We have
evolved an orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase/tRNA pair that makes possible the in …

Glutathione transferases: a structural perspective

A Oakley - Drug metabolism reviews, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The glutathione transferases (GSTs) are one of the most important families of detoxifying
enzymes in nature. The classic activity of the GSTs is conjugation of compounds with …

Global rigid body modeling of macromolecular complexes against small-angle scattering data

MV Petoukhov, DI Svergun - Biophysical journal, 2005 - cell.com
New methods to automatically build models of macromolecular complexes from high-
resolution structures or homology models of their subunits or domains against x-ray or …

Prion-like low complexity regions enable avid virus-host interactions during HIV-1 infection

G Wei, N Iqbal, VV Courouble, AC Francis… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Cellular proteins CPSF6, NUP153 and SEC24C play crucial roles in HIV-1 infection. While
weak interactions of short phenylalanine-glycine (FG) containing peptides with isolated …