Noncanonical Amino Acids in Biocatalysis

Z Birch-Price, FJ Hardy, TM Lister, AR Kohn… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
In recent years, powerful genetic code reprogramming methods have emerged that allow
new functional components to be embedded into proteins as noncanonical amino acid …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Ancestral archaea expanded the genetic code with pyrrolysine

LT Guo, K Amikura, HK Jiang, T Mukai, X Fu… - Journal of Biological …, 2022 - ASBMB
The pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase (PylRS) facilitates the cotranslational installation of the 22nd
amino acid pyrrolysine. Owing to its tolerance for diverse amino acid substrates, and its …

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 …

Exploration of Methanomethylophilus alvus Pyrrolysyl-tRNA Synthetase Activity in Yeast

JT Stieglitz, P Lahiri, MI Stout… - ACS synthetic …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Archaeal pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetases (PylRSs) have been used to genetically encode over
200 distinct noncanonical amino acids (ncAAs) in proteins in Escherichia coli and …

Cracking the Code: Reprogramming the Genetic Script in Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes to Harness the Power of Noncanonical Amino Acids

C Jann, S Giofré, R Bhattacharjee, EA Lemke - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Over 500 natural and synthetic amino acids have been genetically encoded in the last two
decades. Incorporating these noncanonical amino acids into proteins enables many …

The tRNA discriminator base defines the mutual orthogonality of two distinct pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase/tRNAPyl pairs in the same organism

H Zhang, X Gong, Q Zhao, T Mukai… - Nucleic Acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Site-specific incorporation of distinct non-canonical amino acids into proteins via genetic
code expansion requires mutually orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase/tRNA pairs …

Genetic code expansion tools to study lysine acylation

P Neumann‐Staubitz, M Lammers… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Lysine acylation is a ubiquitous protein modification that controls various aspects of protein
function, such as the activity, localization, and stability of enzymes. Mass spectrometric …