Playing with the molecules of life

DD Young, PG Schultz - ACS chemical biology, 2018 - ACS Publications
Our understanding of the complex molecular processes of living organisms at the molecular
level is growing exponentially. This knowledge, together with a powerful arsenal of tools for …

Advances in the study of GPCRs by 19F NMR

LP Picard, RS Prosser - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy have advanced atomic resolution
perspectives of inactive and active states of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), alone …

Molecular interactions of bovine serum albumin (BSA) with pyridine derivatives as candidates for non-covalent protein probes: a spectroscopic investigation

P Szymaszek, P Fiedor, A Chachaj-Brekiesz… - Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - Elsevier
Research regarding protein–ligand interactions remains a major concern in the fields of
chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacology, and food science. Herein, the interaction of selected …

A general strategy to red-shift green fluorescent protein-based biosensors

S Zhang, H Ai - Nature chemical biology, 2020 - nature.com
Compared with green fluorescent protein-based biosensors, red fluorescent protein (RFP)-
based biosensors are inherently advantageous because of reduced phototoxicity …

Structural origin and rational development of bright red noncanonical variants of green fluorescent protein

C Chen, H Zhang, J Zhang, H Ai, C Fang - … Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The incorporation of noncanonical amino acids (ncAAs) into fluorescent proteins is
promising for red-shifting their fluorescence and benefiting tissue imaging with deep …

Unnatural Amino Acids for Biological Spectroscopy and Microscopy

R Feng, M Wang, W Zhang, F Gai - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Due to advances in methods for site-specific incorporation of unnatural amino acids (UAAs)
into proteins, a large number of UAAs with tailored chemical and/or physical properties have …

Photoinduced proton transfer of GFP-inspired fluorescent superphotoacids: Principles and design

C Chen, L Zhu, MS Baranov, L Tang… - The Journal of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Proton transfer remains one of the most fundamental processes in chemistry and biology.
Superphotoacids provide an excellent platform to delineate the excited-state proton transfer …

Targeting ultrafast spectroscopic insights into red fluorescent proteins

TD Krueger, C Chen, C Fang - Chemistry–An Asian Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Red fluorescent proteins (RFPs) represent an increasingly popular class of genetically
encodable bioprobes and biomarkers that can advance next‐generation breakthroughs …

Beyond protein tagging: Rewiring the genetic code of fluorescent proteins–A review

M Aarthy, A George, N Ayyadurai - International Journal of Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Fluorescent proteins (FP) are an integral part of modern biology due to its diverse
biochemical and photophysical properties. The boundaries of FP have been extended …

In vivo biosynthesis of tyrosine analogs and their concurrent incorporation into a residue-specific manner for enzyme engineering

Y Won, H Jeon, AD Pagar, MD Patil… - Chemical …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Herein we report the development of an efficient cellular system for the in vivo biosynthesis
of Tyr-analogs and their concurrent incorporation into target proteins by the residue-specific …