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Adding an unnatural covalent bond to proteins through proximity-enhanced bioreactivity.
Nature methods - 1 Sept 2013
Xiang Zheng, Ren Haiyan, Hu Ying S, Coin Irene, Wei Jing, Cang Hu, Wang Lei
Abstract excerpt
Natural proteins often rely on the disulfide bond to covalently link side chains. Here we genetically introduce a new type of covalent bond into proteins by enabling an unnatural amino acid to react with a proximal cysteine. We demonstrate the utility of this bond for enabling irreversible binding between an affibody and its protein substrate, capturing peptide-protein interactions in mammalian cells, and...
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