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Promiscuous protein biotinylation by Escherichia coli biotin protein ligase.
Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society - 1 Nov 2004
Choi-Rhee Eunjoo, Schulman Howard, Cronan John E
Abstract excerpt
Biotin protein ligases (BPLs) are enzymes of extraordinary specificity. BirA, the BPL of Escherichia coli biotinylates only a single cellular protein. We report a mutant BirA that attaches biotin to a large number of cellular proteins in vivo and to bovine serum albumin, chloramphenicol acetyltransferase, immunoglobin heavy and light chains, and RNAse A in vitro. The mutant BirA also self biotinylates in vivo and...
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