Engineering Artificially Split Inteins for Applications in Protein Chemistry:  Biochemical Characterization of the Split Ssp DnaB Intein and Comparison to the Split Sce …

S Brenzel, T Kurpiers, HD Mootz - Biochemistry, 2006 - ACS Publications
In protein trans-splicing, an intein domain split into two polypeptide chains mediates linkage
of the flanking amino acid sequences, the N-and C-terminal exteins, with a native peptide …

Recent advances in protein splicing: manipulating proteins in vitro and in vivo

MQ Xu, TC Evans Jr - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2005 - Elsevier
Protein splicing is an intricate self-catalyzed protein rearrangement that converts an inactive
protein precursor to biologically active proteins. In the past decade, mechanistic studies and …

Protein splicing: a versatile tool for drug discovery

M Cheriyan, FB Perler - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
The judicious application of intein technologies to biological problems has resulted in
powerful tools for biomedical research. Inteins are intervening sequences that excise …

Structure–activity studies on the upstream splice junction of a semisynthetic intein

A Wasmuth, C Ludwig, HD Mootz - Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry, 2013 - Elsevier
Protein trans-splicing by split inteins holds great potential for the chemical modification and
semisynthesis of proteins. However, the structural requirements of the extein sequences …

Controllable protein cleavages through intein fragment complementation

G Volkmann, W Sun, XQ Liu - Protein Science, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Intein‐based protein cleavages, if carried out in a controllable way, can be useful tools of
recombinant protein purification, ligation, and cyclization. However, existing methods using …

Ligation of Synthetic Peptides to Proteins Using Semisynthetic Protein trans-Splicing

JCJ Matern, AL Bachmann, IV Thiel… - Site-Specific Protein …, 2015 - Springer
Protein trans-splicing using split inteins is a powerful and convenient reaction to chemically
modify recombinantly expressed proteins under mild conditions. In particular, semisynthetic …

Trans protein splicing of cyanobacterial split inteins in endogenous and exogenous combinations

B Dassa, G Amitai, J Caspi, O Schueler-Furman… - Biochemistry, 2007 - ACS Publications
Inteins are autocatalytic protein domains that post-translationally excise from protein
precursors and ligate their flanking regions with a peptide bond, in a process called protein …

[HTML][HTML] A predictive model of intein insertion site for use in the engineering of molecular switches

J Apgar, M Ross, X Zuo, S Dohle, D Sturtevant… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Inteins are intervening protein domains with self-splicing ability that can be used as
molecular switches to control activity of their host protein. Successfully engineering an intein …

Intein lacking conserved C‐terminal motif G retains controllable N‐cleavage activity

G Volkmann, XQ Liu - The FEBS Journal, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
A split‐intein consists of two complementary fragments (N‐intein and C‐intein) that can
associate to carry out protein trans‐splicing. The Ssp GyrB S11 split‐intein is an engineered …

[HTML][HTML] Biological applications of protein splicing

M Vila-Perelló, TW Muir - Cell, 2010 - cell.com
Protein splicing is a naturally occurring process in which a protein editor, called an intein,
performs a molecular disappearing act by cutting itself out of a host protein in a traceless …