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Expanded genetic code

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Single-molecule proteomics based on nanopore technology has made significant advances in recent years. However, to achieve nanopore sensing with single amino acid resolution, several bottlenecks must be tackled: controlling nanopore sizes with nanoscale pr ...

2024

As the fundamental machinery orchestrating cellular functions, proteins influence the state of every cell profoundly. As cells exhibit significant variations from one to another, analyzing the proteome on a single-cell level is imperative to unravel their ...

EPFL2024

Engineered Phenylalanine Ammonia-Lyases for the Enantioselective Synthesis of Aspartic Acid Derivatives

Xile Hu, Ivan Buslov

Biocatalytic hydroamination of alkenes is an efficient and selective method to synthesize natural and unnatural amino acids. Phenylalanine ammonia-lyases (PALs) have been previously engineered to access a range of substituted phenylalanines and heteroaryla ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2024

Novel cathepsin inhibitors

Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Elisa Oricchio, Aaron Simone Petruzzella

The present invention relates to a cathepsin inhibitor comprising or consisting of Formula (I) (X1)(X2)(X3)(X4)(Y)(X5)(X6)(X7) wherein (X1) is an amino acid selected from K, L, F and M; (X2) is an amino acid selected from L, A, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, M, N, S ...

2023

Variants of the gain domain of adhesion g protein-coupled receptors

Patrick Daniel Barth

The present invention relates to variants of the GAIN domain (G-protein-coupled receptor autoproteolysis-inducing domain) of an adhesion G protein-coupled receptor (ADGRG), such as a GAIN domain variant comprising or consisting of the amino acid sequence o ...

2023

Cgas super-enzymes for cancer immunotherapy

Andrea Ablasser, Natasha Ella Samson

The present invention relates to anti-tumor lymphocytes, and a variant cyclic GMP-AMP synthase (cGAS) carrying an amino acid substitution of one or both arginines at amino acid positions 255 and 236 and/or an amino acid substitution of one or both lysines ...

2023

Cys-Cys and Cys-Lys Stapling of Unprotected Peptides Enabled by Hypervalent Iodine Reagents

Jérôme Waser, Christian Heinis, Gontran Sangouard, Elija Grinhagena

Easy access to a wide range of structurally diverse stapled peptides is crucial for the development of inhibitors of protein-protein interactions. Herein, we report bis-functional hypervalent iodine reagents for two-component cysteine-cysteine and cysteine ...

2021

Nature-inspired Circular-economy Recycling (NaCRe) for Proteins

Simone Giaveri

Since a few decades our planet has been loaded with billion tons of synthetic polymer-based materials, commonly named plastics. The large scale of plastic production, associated with its limited recyclability, are the driving force for the accumulation of ...

EPFL2021

DNA origami nanostructures for controlled therapeutic drug delivery

Maartje Martina Cornelia Bastings, Jorieke Weiden

DNA nanostructures are emerging as a versatile platform for controlled drug delivery as a result of recent progress in production yield and strategies to obtain prolonged stability in biological environments. The construction of nanostructures from this un ...

2021

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Translation depends on messenger RNA (mRNA)-specific initiation, elongation, and termination rates. While translation elongation is well studied in bacteria and yeast, less is known in higher eukaryotes. Here we combined ribosome and transfer RNA (tRNA) pr ...

2020

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