Orthogonal Translation for Site-Specific Installation of Post-translational Modifications

Q Gan, C Fan - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) endow proteins with new properties to respond to
environmental changes or growth needs. With the development of advanced proteomics …

[PDF][PDF] Applications of genetic code expansion technology in eukaryotes

Q Guo, YJ Cao - Protein & Cell, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Unnatural amino acids (UAAs) have gained significant attention in protein engineering and
drug development owing to their ability to introduce new chemical functionalities to proteins …

Electrochemical labelling of hydroxyindoles with chemoselectivity for site-specific protein bioconjugation

C Loynd, SJ Singha Roy, VJ Ovalle, SE Canarelli… - Nature Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
Electrochemistry has recently emerged as a powerful approach in small-molecule synthesis
owing to its numerous attractive features, including precise control over the fundamental …

Enhanced directed evolution in mammalian cells yields a hyperefficient pyrrolysyl tRNA for noncanonical amino acid mutagenesis

D Jewel, RE Kelemen, RL Huang, Z Zhu… - Angewandte …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Heterologous tRNAs used for noncanonical amino acid (ncAA) mutagenesis in mammalian
cells typically show poor activity. We recently introduced a virus‐assisted directed evolution …

A Genetically Encoded Photocaged Cysteine for Facile Site-Specific Introduction of Conjugation-Ready Thiol Residues in Antibodies

AO Osgood, SJS Roy, D Koo, R Gu… - Bioconjugate …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Antibody–drug conjugates (ADCs) have emerged as a powerful class of anticancer
therapeutics that enable the selective delivery of toxic payloads into target cells. There is …

Homogeneous multi-payload antibody–drug conjugates

T Journeaux, GJL Bernardes - Nature Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
Many systemic cancer chemotherapies comprise a combination of drugs, yet all clinically
used antibody–drug conjugates (ADCs) contain a single-drug payload. These combination …

Directed evolution of a bacterial leucyl tRNA in mammalian cells for enhanced noncanonical amino acid mutagenesis

RL Huang, D Jewel, RE Kelemen, Q Pham… - ACS Synthetic …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The Escherichia coli leucyl-tRNA synthetase (EcLeuRS)/tRNAEcLeu pair has been
engineered to genetically encode a structurally diverse group of enabling noncanonical …

Development of Multivalent Conjugates with a Single Non‐Canonical Amino Acid

NK Burrow, RK Gourdie, EA King, CR Travis… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Proteins represent powerful biomacromolecules due to their unique functionality and broad
utility both in the cell and in non‐biological applications. The genetic encoding of non …

Dual Noncanonical Amino Acid Incorporation Enabling Chemoselective Protein Modification at Two Distinct Sites in Yeast

P Lahiri, MS Martin, BR Lino, RA Scheck… - Biochemistry, 2023 - ACS Publications
Incorporation of more than one noncanonical amino acid (ncAA) within a single protein
endows the resulting construct with multiple useful features such as augmented molecular …

Suppressor tRNAs at the interface of genetic code expansion and medicine

A Awawdeh, AA Radecki, O Vargas-Rodriguez - Frontiers in Genetics, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Suppressor transfer RNAs (sup-tRNAs) are receiving renewed attention for their promising
therapeutic properties in treating genetic diseases caused by nonsense mutations …