Contemporary approaches to site-selective protein modification

EA Hoyt, PMSD Cal, BL Oliveira… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Proteins constitute the majority of nature's worker biomolecules. Designed for specific
functions, complex tertiary structures make proteins ideal candidates for analysing natural …

Expanding and reprogramming the genetic code

JW Chin - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Nature uses a limited, conservative set of amino acids to synthesize proteins. The ability to
genetically encode an expanded set of building blocks with new chemical and physical …

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 …

Chemical and biochemical perspectives of protein lysine methylation

M Luo - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Protein lysine methylation is a distinct posttranslational modification that causes minimal
changes in the size and electrostatic status of lysine residues. Lysine methylation plays …

Site-selective protein modification: from functionalized proteins to functional biomaterials

JA Shadish, CA DeForest - Matter, 2020 - cell.com
Chemists, biologists, and material scientists alike have long sought to control protein
presentation, orientation, and activity within biomaterials to dictate reaction catalysis …

The chemical biology of reversible lysine post-translational modifications

ZA Wang, PA Cole - Cell chemical biology, 2020 - cell.com
Lysine (Lys) residues in proteins undergo a wide range of reversible post-translational
modifications (PTMs), which can regulate enzyme activities, chromatin structure, protein …

Cellular Site-Specific Incorporation of Noncanonical Amino Acids in Synthetic Biology

W Niu, J Guo - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Over the past two decades, genetic code expansion (GCE)-enabled methods for
incorporating noncanonical amino acids (ncAAs) into proteins have significantly advanced …

Bioorthogonal reactions of triarylphosphines and related analogues

TK Heiss, RS Dorn, JA Prescher - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Bioorthogonal phosphines were introduced in the context of the Staudinger ligation over 20
years ago. Since that time, phosphine probes have been used in myriad applications to tag …

Applications of genetic code expansion in studying protein post-translational modification

J Chen, YH Tsai - Journal of Molecular Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Various post-translational modifications can naturally occur on proteins, regulating the
activity, subcellular localization, interaction, or stability of the proteins. However, it can be …

Functional analysis of protein post‐translational modifications using genetic codon expansion

T Peng, T Das, K Ding, HC Hang - Protein Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Post‐translational modifications (PTMs) of proteins not only exponentially increase the
diversity of proteoforms, but also contribute to dynamically modulating the localization …