[HTML][HTML] Inteins—mechanism of protein splicing, emerging regulatory roles, and applications in protein engineering

DW Wood, M Belfort, CW Lennon - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Protein splicing is a posttranslational process in which an intein segment excises itself from
two flanking peptides, referred to as exteins. In the native context, protein splicing results in …

[HTML][HTML] Protein splicing of inteins: a powerful tool in synthetic biology

H Wang, L Wang, B Zhong, Z Dai - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Inteins are protein segments that are capable of enabling the ligation of flanking extein into a
new protein, a process known as protein splicing. Since its discovery, inteins have become …

[HTML][HTML] A cybergenetic framework for engineering intein-mediated integral feedback control systems

S Anastassov, M Filo, CH Chang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The ability of biological systems to tightly regulate targeted variables, despite external and
internal disturbances, is known as Robust Perfect Adaptation (RPA). Achieved frequently …

Suprachoroidal delivery of viral and nonviral gene therapy for retinal diseases

V Kansara, L Muya, C Wan, TA Ciulla - Journal of Ocular …, 2020 - liebertpub.com
Retinal gene therapy is a rapidly growing field with numerous clinical trials underway, and
route of delivery is a critical contributor to its success. Subretinal administration, which …

Has retinal gene therapy come of age? From bench to bedside and back to bench

I Trapani, A Auricchio - Human molecular genetics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Retinal gene therapy has advanced considerably in the past three decades. Initial efforts
have been devoted to comprehensively explore and optimize the transduction abilities of …

The crystal structure of the naturally split gp41‐1 intein guides the engineering of orthogonal split inteins from cis‐splicing inteins

HM Beyer, KM Mikula, M Li, A Wlodawer… - The FEBS …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Protein trans‐splicing catalyzed by split inteins has increasingly become useful as a protein
engineering tool. We solved the 1.0 Å‐resolution crystal structure of a fused variant from the …

Massive intein content in Anaeramoeba reveals aspects of intein mobility in eukaryotes

L Gallot-Lavallée… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Inteins are self-splicing protein elements found in viruses and all three domains of life. How
the DNA encoding these selfish elements spreads within and between genomes is poorly …

Therapeutic applications of trans-splicing

EM Hong, CK Ingemarsdotter… - British medical …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background RNA trans-splicing joins exons from different pre-mRNA transcripts to generate
a chimeric product. Trans-splicing can also occur at the protein level, with split inteins …

[HTML][HTML] Chromatographic single-step purification of tagless proteins using gp41-1 split inteins

M Knapp, V Kohl, T Best, O Rammo… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The current trend in biopharmaceutical drug manufacturing is towards increasing potency
and complexity of products such as peptide scaffolds, oligonucleotides and many more …

Reactive chlorine species reversibly inhibit DnaB protein splicing in mycobacteria

CW Lennon, D Wahl, JR Goetz… - Microbiology …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
In tervening pro teins, or inteins, are mobile genetic elements that are translated within host
polypeptides and removed at the protein level by splicing. In protein splicing, a self …