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PROTEIN SCIENCE
Volume 32, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/pro.4618
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bioorthogonal reaction; genetic codon expansion; post-translational modification; unnatural amino acids
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Post-translational modifications (PTMs) of proteins not only increase proteoform diversity, but also regulate protein localization, stability, activity, and interaction. Genetic code expansion technology allows site-specific incorporation of unnatural amino acids (UAAs) bearing PTMs or their mimics into proteins, enabling the generation of homogenous proteins with specific modifications. This review summarizes recent developments in UAAs and approaches for site-specific installation and functional studies of PTMs and their mimics.
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) of proteins not only exponentially increase the diversity of proteoforms, but also contribute to dynamically modulating the localization, stability, activity, and interaction of proteins. Understanding the biological consequences and functions of specific PTMs has been challenging for many reasons, including the dynamic nature of many PTMs and the technical limitations to access homogenously modified proteins. The genetic code expansion technology has emerged to provide unique approaches for studying PTMs. Through site-specific incorporation of unnatural amino acids (UAAs) bearing PTMs or their mimics into proteins, genetic code expansion allows the generation of homogenous proteins with site-specific modifications and atomic resolution both in vitro and in vivo. With this technology, various PTMs and mimics have been precisely introduced into proteins. In this review, we summarize the UAAs and approaches that have been recently developed to site-specifically install PTMs and their mimics into proteins for functional studies of PTMs.
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