Design of functional metalloproteins

Y Lu, N Yeung, N Sieracki, NM Marshall - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
Metalloproteins catalyse some of the most complex and important processes in nature, such
as photosynthesis and water oxidation. An ultimate test of our knowledge of how …

High-throughput screens and selections of enzyme-encoding genes

A Aharoni, AD Griffiths, DS Tawfik - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2005 - Elsevier
The availability of vast gene repertoires from both natural sources (genomic and cDNA
libraries) and artificial sources (gene libraries) demands the development and application of …

Artificial metalloenzymes and metallopeptide catalysts for organic synthesis

JC Lewis - Acs Catalysis, 2013 - ACS Publications
Transition metal catalysts and enzymes possess unique and often complementary
properties that have made them important tools for chemical synthesis. The potential …

Protein engineering in the ubiquitin system: tools for discovery and beyond

B Zhao, YC Tsai, B Jin, B Wang, Y Wang, H Zhou… - Pharmacological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Ubiquitin (UB) transfer cascades consisting of E1, E2, and E3 enzymes constitute a complex
network that regulates a myriad of biologic processes by modifying protein substrates …

Selection of horseradish peroxidase variants with enhanced enantioselectivity by yeast surface display

D Lipovšek, E Antipov, KA Armstrong, MJ Olsen… - Chemistry & biology, 2007 - cell.com
We report a method for in vitro selection of catalytically active enzymes from large libraries of
variants displayed on the surface of the yeast S. cerevisiae. Two libraries, each containing∼ …

Identifying the substrate proteins of U-box E3s E4B and CHIP by orthogonal ubiquitin transfer

K Bhuripanyo, Y Wang, X Liu, L Zhou, R Liu… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
E3 ubiquitin (UB) ligases E4B and carboxyl terminus of Hsc70-interacting protein (CHIP) use
a common U-box motif to transfer UB from E1 and E2 enzymes to their substrate proteins …

Catalytic turnover-based phage selection for engineering the substrate specificity of Sfp phosphopantetheinyl transferase

M Sunbul, NJ Marshall, Y Zou, K Zhang, J Yin - Journal of molecular biology, 2009 - Elsevier
We report a high-throughput phage selection method to identify mutants of Sfp
phosphopantetheinyl transferase with altered substrate specificities from a large library of …

A chemogenetic approach for the optical monitoring of voltage in neurons

M Sundukova, E Prifti, A Bucci… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Optical monitoring of neuronal voltage using fluorescent indicators is a powerful approach
for the interrogation of the cellular and molecular logic of the nervous system. Herein, a …

From “hemoabzymes” to “hemozymes”: towards new biocatalysts for selective oxidations

JP Mahy, JD Maréchal, R Ricoux - Chemical Communications, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The design of artificial hemoproteins that could catalyze selective oxidations using clean
oxidants such as O2 or H2O2 under ecocompatible conditions constitutes a real challenge …

Genome-wide high-throughput mining of natural-product biosynthetic gene clusters by phage display

J Yin, PD Straight, S Hrvatin, PC Dorrestein… - Chemistry & biology, 2007 - cell.com
We have developed a phage-display method for high-throughput mining of bacterial gene
clusters encoding the natural-product biosynthetic enzymes, polyketide synthases (PKSs) …