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Protein Engineering

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    Do T, Link J. Protein Engineering in Ribosomally Synthesized and Post-translationally Modified Peptides (RiPPs). Biochemistry. 2023;62(2):201–209. PMCID: PMC9454058
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    Song H, Burton A, Shirran S, Fahrig-Kamarauskaitė J, Kaspar H, Muir T, Künzler M, Naismith J. Engineering of a Peptide α-N-Methyltransferase to Methylate Non-Proteinogenic Amino Acids. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2021;60(26):14319–14323. PMCID: PMC8251615
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    Schröder H, Zhang Y, Link J. Dynamic covalent self-assembly of mechanically interlocked molecules solely made from peptides. Nat Chem. 2021;13(9):850–857. PMCID: PMC8446321
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    Montalbán-López M, Scott T, Ramesh S, Rahman I, van Heel A, Viel J, Bandarian V, Dittmann E, Genilloud O, Goto Y, Burgos M, Hill C, Kim S, Koehnke J, Latham J, Link J, Martínez B, Nair S, Nicolet Y, Rebuffat S, Sahl H-G, Sareen D, Schmidt E, Schmitt L, Severinov K, Süssmuth R, Truman A, Wang H, Weng J-K, van Wezel G, Zhang Q, Zhong J, Piel J, Mitchell D, Kuipers O, van der Donk W. New developments in RiPP discovery, enzymology and engineering. Nat Prod Rep. 2021;38(1):130–239. PMCID: PMC7864896
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    Thompson R, Stevens A, Muir T. Protein engineering through tandem transamidation. Nat Chem. 2019;11(8):737–743. PMCID: PMC6711197
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    Kobayashi N, Inano K, Sasahara K, Sato T, Miyazawa K, Fukuma T, Hecht M, Song C, Murata K, Arai R. Self-Assembling Supramolecular Nanostructures Constructed from de Novo Extender Protein Nanobuilding Blocks. ACS Synth Biol. 2018;7(5):1381–1394. PMID: 29690759
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    Hecht M, Zarzhitsky S, Karas C, Chari S. Are natural proteins special? Can we do that?. Curr Opin Struct Biol. 2018;48:124–132. PMID: 29306103
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    Debelouchina G, Muir T. A molecular engineering toolbox for the structural biologist. Q Rev Biophys. 2017;50:e7. PMCID: PMC5978726
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    Gramespacher J, Stevens A, Thompson R, Muir T. Improved protein splicing using embedded split inteins. Protein Sci. 2018;27(3):614–619. PMCID: PMC5818749
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    Stevens A, Sekar G, Shah N, Mostafavi A, Cowburn D, Muir T. A promiscuous split intein with expanded protein engineering applications. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017;114(32):8538–8543. PMCID: PMC5559002
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    David Y, Muir T. Emerging Chemistry Strategies for Engineering Native Chromatin. J Am Chem Soc. 2017;139(27):9090–9096. PMCID: PMC5752102
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    Holt M, David Y, Pollock S, Tang Z, Jeon J, Kim J, Roeder R, Muir T. Identification of a functional hotspot on ubiquitin required for stimulation of methyltransferase activity on chromatin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015;112(33):10365–70. PMCID: PMC4547310
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    Hoegler K, Hecht M. A de novo protein confers copper resistance in Escherichia coli. Protein Sci. 2016;25(7):1249–59. PMCID: PMC4918413
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