Paramagnetic chemical probes for studying biological macromolecules

Q Miao, C Nitsche, H Orton, M Overhand… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Paramagnetic chemical probes have been used in electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR)
and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy for more than four decades. Recent …

Rational design of metalloenzymes: From single to multiple active sites

YW Lin - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Artificial metalloenzymes combine the advantages of both natural enzymes and chemically
synthesized models, which have achieved significant progress in the last decade. This …

The effect of oxygenated fuel properties on diesel spray combustion and soot formation

W Park, S Park, RD Reitz, E Kurtz - Combustion and Flame, 2017 - Elsevier
Diesel engines have advantages due to their potential for high fuel conversion efficiency.
However, it is necessary to reduce pollutant emissions, particularly NOx and soot to meet …

Future prospects for noncanonical amino acids in biological therapeutics

A Rezhdo, M Islam, M Huang… - Current opinion in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Use of noncanonical amino acid (ncAAs) in therapeutics requires careful
evaluation.•NcAA-mediated strategies enable important routes to precisely defined …

Metal-responsive regulation of enzyme catalysis using genetically encoded chemical switches

YS Zubi, K Seki, Y Li, AC Hunt, B Liu, B Roux… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Dynamic control over protein function is a central challenge in synthetic biology. To address
this challenge, we describe the development of an integrated computational and …

Computational design of a homotrimeric metalloprotein with a trisbipyridyl core

JH Mills, W Sheffler, ME Ener… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Metal-chelating heteroaryl small molecules have found widespread use as building blocks
for coordination-driven, self-assembling nanostructures. The metal-chelating noncanonical …

Multidrug resistance regulators (MDRs) as scaffolds for the design of artificial metalloenzymes

M Bersellini, G Roelfes - Organic & biomolecular chemistry, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The choice of protein scaffolds is an important element in the design of artificial
metalloenzymes. Herein, we introduce Multidrug Resistance Regulators (MDRs) from the …

Functional replacement of histidine in proteins to generate noncanonical amino acid dependent organisms

F Gan, R Liu, F Wang, PG Schultz - Journal of the American …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Simple strategies to produce organisms whose growth is strictly dependent on the presence
of a noncanonical amino acid are useful for the generation of live vaccines and the …

MetalPrognosis: a Biological Language Model-based Approach for Disease-Associated Mutations in Metal-Binding Site prediction

R Jia, Z He, C Wang, X Guo, F Li - IEEE/ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Protein-metal ion interactions play a central role in the onset of numerous diseases. When
amino acid changes lead to missense mutations in metal-binding sites, the disrupted …

Metal-chelating non-canonical amino acids in metalloprotein engineering and design

PJ Almhjell, JH Mills - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Metal-chelating non-canonical amino acids can simplify the metalloprotein
engineering and design problem.•Metal-chelating non-canonical amino acids can serve in …