Oximes and hydrazones in bioconjugation: mechanism and catalysis

DK Kölmel, ET Kool - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
The formation of oximes and hydrazones is employed in numerous scientific fields as a
simple and versatile conjugation strategy. This imine-forming reaction is applied in fields as …

Cellular incorporation of unnatural amino acids and bioorthogonal labeling of proteins

K Lang, JW Chin - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
In the past 15 years, there have been rapid developments in the ability to cotranslationally
incorporate unnatural amino acids into proteins produced in cells, both at defined sites via …

Engineering pyrrolysine systems for genetic code expansion and reprogramming

DL Dunkelmann, JW Chin - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Over the past 16 years, genetic code expansion and reprogramming in living organisms has
been transformed by advances that leverage the unique properties of pyrrolysyl-tRNA …

Designing logical codon reassignment–Expanding the chemistry in biology

A Dumas, L Lercher, CD Spicer, BG Davis - Chemical science, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the last decade, the ability to genetically encode unnatural amino acids (UAAs) has
evolved rapidly. The programmed incorporation of UAAs into recombinant proteins relies on …

Expanding and reprogramming the genetic code of cells and animals

JW Chin - Annual review of biochemistry, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Genetic code expansion and reprogramming enable the site-specific incorporation of
diverse designer amino acids into proteins produced in cells and animals. Recent advances …

Selective chemical protein modification

CD Spicer, BG Davis - Nature communications, 2014 - nature.com
Chemical modification of proteins is an important tool for probing natural systems, creating
therapeutic conjugates and generating novel protein constructs. Site-selective reactions …

Pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase: an ordinary enzyme but an outstanding genetic code expansion tool

W Wan, JM Tharp, WR Liu - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Proteins …, 2014 - Elsevier
The genetic incorporation of the 22nd proteinogenic amino acid, pyrrolysine (Pyl) at amber
codon is achieved by the action of pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase (PylRS) together with its …

Designer proteins: applications of genetic code expansion in cell biology

L Davis, JW Chin - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2012 - nature.com
Designer amino acids, beyond the canonical 20 that are normally used by cells, can now be
site-specifically encoded into proteins in cells and organisms. This is achieved …

An overview of chemo-and site-selectivity aspects in the chemical conjugation of proteins

C Sornay, V Vaur, A Wagner… - Royal Society Open …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The bioconjugation of proteins—that is, the creation of a covalent link between a protein and
any other molecule—has been studied for decades, partly because of the numerous …

Genetic code expansion: inception, development, commercialization

M Manandhar, E Chun… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Virtually all natural proteins are built from only 20 amino acids, and while this makes
possible all the functions they perform, the ability to encode other amino acids selected for …