Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

NeissLock provides an inducible protein anhydride for covalent targeting of endogenous proteins

  • Arne H. A. Scheu,
  • Sheryl Y. T. Lim,
  • Felix J. Metzner,
  • Shabaz Mohammed,
  • Mark Howarth

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-20963-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Covalent conjugation of endogenous protein complexes offers many opportunities for fundamental and clinical research. Based on a bacterial protein domain that forms a reactive anhydride in the presence of Ca2+, the authors here develop a system that enables the covalent capture of endogenous binding partners.