Chemical modification of proteins by insertion of synthetic peptides using tandem protein trans-splicing
Keith K. Khoo, Iacopo Galleano, Federica Gasparri, Ralph Wieneke, Hendrik Johannes Harms, Mette Homann Poulsen, Han Chow Chua, Matthias Wulf, Robert Tampé, Stephan Alexander Pless
This paper introduces a method to insert synthetic peptides into proteins in eukaryotic cells to enable chemical modifications and non-canonical amino acids, validated using GFP, NaV1.5, and P2X2 receptors.
Nature Communications · May 8, 2020Peer-reviewedSynthetic Biology