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A review with 15 refs. Directed mol. evolution of enzymes and proteins has emerged as an extremely powerful method to create proteins with novel properties, both for practical applications as well as for mechanistic studies. To demonstrate the underlying p ...
A review is given with 62 refs. on the art of template-based protein de novo design, with special emphasis on progress in peptide synthesis and template design and show that some fundamental questions in protein assembly, structure and function can be appr ...
A review with several refs. The ultimate goal in protein de novo design is the creation of novel macromols. with tailor-made receptor, sensory, and catalytic functions. Despite considerable progress in understanding basic rules of secondary structure forma ...
The construction of protein-like folding motifs as structurally stable scaffolds for the introduction of function represents a major goal in protein design. The use of topol. templates allows the bypass of the well-known folding problem of linear polypepti ...
The in vivo and in vitro labeling of fusion proteins with synthetic mols. capable of probing and controlling protein function has the potential to become an important method in functional genomics and proteomics. We have recently introduced an approach for ...
Characterizing the movement, interactions, and chem. microenvironment of a protein inside the living cell is crucial to a detailed understanding of its function. Most strategies aimed at realizing this objective are based on genetically fusing the protein ...
Computer analysis of a conserved domain, BRCT, first described at the carboxyl terminus of the breast cancer protein BRCA1, a p53 binding protein (53BP1), and the yeast cell cycle checkpoint protein RAD9 revealed a large superfamily of domains that occur p ...
Tyrosinase is the key enzyme in pigment synthesis, initiating a cascade of reactions which convert the amino acid tyrosine to the melanin biopolymer. Two other tyrosinase-related proteins (TRP) are known, TRP-1 (probably DHICAoxidase) and TRP-2 (DOPAchrome ...
Protein design is important to develop new drugs. As such, a knowledge of the correct model to use to design novel proteins is of the utmost importance. Here we show that a simple model where the solvent degrees of freedom are (semi)explicitly taken into a ...