Nature Communications (Feb 2023)

Noncanonical amino acids as doubly bio-orthogonal handles for one-pot preparation of protein multiconjugates

  • Yong Wang,
  • Jingming Zhang,
  • Boyang Han,
  • Linzhi Tan,
  • Wenkang Cai,
  • Yuxuan Li,
  • Yeyu Su,
  • Yutong Yu,
  • Xin Wang,
  • Xiaojiang Duan,
  • Haoyu Wang,
  • Xiaomeng Shi,
  • Jing Wang,
  • Xing Yang,
  • Tao Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36658-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Site-specific protein multi-conjugates are important for both scientific and translational research. Here, the authors genetically encode unnatural amino acids which contain both tetrazine and azide, and use the doubly bio-orthogonal handles to generate bi- and tri-conjugate proteins in high yields.