Expanding the substrate scope of pyrrolysyl-transfer RNA synthetase enzymes to include non-α-amino acids in vitro and in vivo

R Fricke, CV Swenson, LT Roe, NX Hamlish, B Shah… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The absence of orthogonal aminoacyl-transfer RNA (tRNA) synthetases that accept non-l-α-
amino acids is a primary bottleneck hindering the in vivo translation of sequence-defined …

Virus-assisted directed evolution of enhanced suppressor tRNAs in mammalian cells

D Jewel, RE Kelemen, RL Huang, Z Zhu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Site-specific incorporation of unnatural amino acids (Uaas) in living cells relies on
engineered aminoacyl-transfer RNA synthetase–tRNA pairs borrowed from a distant domain …

Genetic Encoding of Phosphorylated Amino Acids into Proteins

MC Allen, PA Karplus, RA Mehl, RB Cooley - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Reversible phosphorylation is a fundamental mechanism for controlling protein function.
Despite the critical roles phosphorylated proteins play in physiology and disease, our ability …

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 …

An Efficient Opal‐Suppressor Tryptophanyl Pair Creates New Routes for Simultaneously Incorporating up to Three Distinct Noncanonical Amino Acids into Proteins in …

AO Osgood, Y Zheng, SJS Roy, N Biris… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Site‐specific incorporation of multiple distinct noncanonical amino acids (ncAAs) into
proteins in mammalian cells is a promising technology, where each ncAA must be assigned …

Dual Noncanonical Amino Acid Incorporation Enabling Chemoselective Protein Modification at Two Distinct Sites in Yeast

P Lahiri, MS Martin, BR Lino, RA Scheck… - Biochemistry, 2023 - ACS Publications
Incorporation of more than one noncanonical amino acid (ncAA) within a single protein
endows the resulting construct with multiple useful features such as augmented molecular …

Studying Reversible Protein Post‐translational Modification through Co‐translational Modification

D Wu, T Liu - Chembiochem, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the post‐translational modifications of targeted proteins is of great
significance for manipulating the physiological processes of eukaryotes. Chemical biology …

Co‐translational Installation of Posttranslational Modifications by Non‐canonical Amino Acid Mutagenesis

W Niu, J Guo - ChemBioChem, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Protein posttranslational modifications (PTMs) play critical roles in regulating cellular
activities. Here we provide a survey of genetic code expansion (GCE) methods that were …

Suppressor tRNAs at the interface of genetic code expansion and medicine

A Awawdeh, AA Radecki, O Vargas-Rodriguez - Frontiers in Genetics, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Suppressor transfer RNAs (sup-tRNAs) are receiving renewed attention for their promising
therapeutic properties in treating genetic diseases caused by nonsense mutations …

[PDF][PDF] Dual stop codon suppression in mammalian cells with genomically integrated genetic code expansion machinery

B Meineke, J Heimgärtner, R Caridha, MF Block… - Cell Reports …, 2023 - cell.com
Stop codon suppression using dedicated tRNA/aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase (aaRS) pairs
allows for genetically encoded, site-specific incorporation of non-canonical amino acids …