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The capability to rapidly design proteins with novel functions will have a significant impact on medicine, biotechnology and synthetic biology. Synthetic genes are becoming a commodity, but integrated approaches have yet to be developed that take full adva ...
A review. Topics include pseudo-prolines (YPro) as a solubilizing, structure-disrupting protection technique in peptide synthesis and the concept of Template-Assembled-Synthetic Proteins (TASP). [on SciFinder (R)] ...
The specific labeling of proteins with synthetic probes is a powerful approach to study protein function and protein tags have been widely used for this purpose. A well-established example for a self-labeling protein tag is SNAP-tag. It specifically reacts ...
The research described within this thesis is primarily motivated by two fields of science with reversed, yet complementary, approaches to addressing the same essential objective: manipulating and understanding the complex program of life. Whereas synthetic ...
An experimental system is described, permitting a detailed and systematic analysis of the factors governing self-assembly of amphipathic helices, e.g. to a four-helical bundle, a subject of major relevance for tertiary structure formation. protein folding ...
A review with 35 refs. Creating functional biol. mols. de novo requires a detailed understanding of the intimate relationship between primary sequence, folding mechanism, and packing topol., and remains up to now a most challenging goal in protein design a ...
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 ...
A review with twenty-nine refs. on the authors' current research. Protein design and mimicry combines elements of synthetic org. chem. with structural and functional aspects of biol. relevance in a unique way. Due to progress in this interdisciplinary rese ...
The structural prototype of a new generation of regioselectively addressable functionalized templates (RAFTs) for use in protein de novo design has been synthesized and crystallized. The structure of the aromatically substituted cyclodecapeptide was determ ...
Membrane protein dynamics is of great importance for living organisms. The precise localization of proteins composing a synapse on the membrane facing a nerve terminus is essential for proper functioning of the nervous system. In muscle fibers, the nicotin ...