Nature Communications (Sep 2022)

Unleashing the potential of noncanonical amino acid biosynthesis to create cells with precision tyrosine sulfation

  • Yuda Chen,
  • Shikai Jin,
  • Mengxi Zhang,
  • Yu Hu,
  • Kuan-Lin Wu,
  • Anna Chung,
  • Shichao Wang,
  • Zeru Tian,
  • Yixian Wang,
  • Peter G. Wolynes,
  • Han Xiao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33111-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Incorporation of noncanonical amino acids into proteins holds great promise for altering structure and function of these proteins. Here the authors generate metabolically modified prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells that can biosynthesize sTyr and incorporate it into proteins in a site-specific manner.