Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Enzymatic biosynthesis and immobilization of polyprotein verified at the single-molecule level

  • Yibing Deng,
  • Tao Wu,
  • Mengdi Wang,
  • Shengchao Shi,
  • Guodong Yuan,
  • Xi Li,
  • Hanchung Chong,
  • Bin Wu,
  • Peng Zheng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10696-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Existing methods for protein polymer engineering suffer from low efficiency especially for synthesis large size polyproteins. Here, Deng et al. construct homo-polymer and co-polymer up to decamer by stepwise ligation and cleavage validated by atomic force microscopy-based single-molecule force spectroscopy.