Non-Canonical Amino Acids in Analyses of Protease Structure and Function [PDF]
All known organisms encode 20 canonical amino acids by base triplets in the genetic code. The cellular translational machinery produces proteins consisting mainly of these amino acids.
Nediljko Budisa +2 more
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Microbial production of non‐canonical amino acids [PDF]
Lawrence P. Wackett
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Beyond the Canonical 20: Peptide Discovery with Non-Canonical Amino Acids [PDF]
Amino acids are central to biology as signaling molecules and as the building blocks of peptides and proteins, which represent an expanding class of drugs with vast therapeutic potential.
Nathalie M. Grob
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Editorial: Exploring and expanding the protein universe with non-canonical amino acids [PDF]
Gustavo Fuertes +2 more
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Harnessing Transaminases to Construct Azacyclic Non-Canonical Amino Acids [PDF]
Non-canonical amino acids (ncAAs) are prized building blocks in the synthesis of natural products, designer peptides and drug molecules. Despite their general utility, the complex structure of these molecules still presents an enormous challenge for ...
Hans, Renata +4 more
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AAindexNC: Estimating the Physicochemical Properties of Non-Canonical Amino Acids, Including Those Derived from the PDB and PDBeChem Databank [PDF]
The physicochemical properties of amino acid residues from the AAindex database are widely used as predictors in building models for predicting both protein structures and properties.
Yury Kravatsky
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Non-canonical amino acids in protein engineering
Methods for engineering proteins that contain non-canonical amino acids have advanced rapidly in the past few years. Novel amino acids can be introduced into recombinant proteins in either a residue-specific or site-specific fashion.
Mock, Marissa L. +2 more
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Use of non‐canonical amino acids in genetic code expansion‐based therapeutics: Effects on mouse gut microbiota [PDF]
Vaccines and cell therapeutics based on genetic code expansion are emerging. A crucial step in these therapeutic technologies is the oral administration of non‐canonical amino acids (ncAAs) to control pathogen growth and therapeutic protein levels in ...
Manyu Liang +7 more
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Cell-Free Approach for Non-canonical Amino Acids Incorporation Into Polypeptides [PDF]
Synthetic biology holds promise to revolutionize the life sciences and biomedicine via expansion of macromolecular diversity outside the natural chemical space.
Zhenling Cui +2 more
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Rationally introducing non-canonical amino acids to enhance catalytic activity of LmrR for Henry reaction [PDF]
The use of enzymes to catalyze Henry reaction has advantages of mild reaction conditions and low contamination, but low enzyme activity of promiscuous catalysis limits its application.
Lan Wang +8 more
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