Therapeutic peptides: current applications and future directions

L Wang, N Wang, W Zhang, X Cheng, Z Yan… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Peptide drug development has made great progress in the last decade thanks to new
production, modification, and analytic technologies. Peptides have been produced and …

Expanding and reprogramming the genetic code

JW Chin - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Nature uses a limited, conservative set of amino acids to synthesize proteins. The ability to
genetically encode an expanded set of building blocks with new chemical and physical …

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 …

Genetic code expansion: a brief history and perspective

MA Shandell, Z Tan, VW Cornish - Biochemistry, 2021 - ACS Publications
Since the establishment of site-specific mutagenesis of single amino acids to interrogate
protein function in the 1970s, biochemists have sought to tailor protein structure in the native …

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 …

Generation of influenza A viruses as live but replication-incompetent virus vaccines

L Si, H Xu, X Zhou, Z Zhang, Z Tian, Y Wang, Y Wu… - Science, 2016 - science.org
The conversion of life-threatening viruses into live but avirulent vaccines represents a
revolution in vaccinology. In a proof-of-principle study, we expanded the genetic code of the …

Cellular Site-Specific Incorporation of Noncanonical Amino Acids in Synthetic Biology

W Niu, J Guo - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Over the past two decades, genetic code expansion (GCE)-enabled methods for
incorporating noncanonical amino acids (ncAAs) into proteins have significantly advanced …

Using genetically incorporated unnatural amino acids to control protein functions in mammalian cells

AR Nödling, LA Spear, TL Williams… - Essays in …, 2019 - portlandpress.com
Genetic code expansion allows unnatural (non-canonical) amino acid incorporation into
proteins of interest by repurposing the cellular translation machinery. The development of …

Site-specific bioconjugation approaches for enhanced delivery of protein therapeutics and protein drug carriers

RM Lieser, D Yur, MO Sullivan, W Chen - Bioconjugate chemistry, 2020 - ACS Publications
Proteins have the capacity to treat a multitude of diseases both as therapeutics and as drug
carriers due to their complex functional properties, specificity toward binding partners …

At the interface of chemical and biological synthesis: an expanded genetic code

H Xiao, PG Schultz - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in …, 2016 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
The ability to site-specifically incorporate noncanonical amino acids (ncAAs) with novel
structures into proteins in living cells affords a powerful tool to investigate and manipulate …