Nature Communications (May 2020)

Chemical modification of proteins by insertion of synthetic peptides using tandem protein trans-splicing

  • K. K. Khoo,
  • I. Galleano,
  • F. Gasparri,
  • R. Wieneke,
  • H. Harms,
  • M. H. Poulsen,
  • H. C. Chua,
  • M. Wulf,
  • R. Tampé,
  • S. A. Pless

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16208-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Chemical modification of proteins can be used to decipher function or use that function for therapeutic purposes. Here, the authors insert synthetic peptides via tandem protein trans-splicing to add post-translational modifications or non-canonical amino acids.