Site-specific dual encoding and labeling of proteins via genetic code expansion

RM Bednar, PA Karplus, RA Mehl - Cell chemical biology, 2023 - cell.com
The ability to selectively modify proteins at two or more defined locations opens new avenues
for manipulating, engineering, and studying living systems. As a chemical biology tool for …

Genetic incorporation of two mutually orthogonal bioorthogonal amino acids that enable efficient protein dual-labeling in cells

RM Bednar, S Jana, S Kuppa, R Franklin… - ACS chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The ability to site-specifically modify proteins at multiple sites in vivo will enable the study of
protein function in its native environment with unprecedented levels of detail. Here, we …

Faster surface ligation reactions improve immobilized enzyme structure and activity

AF Chaparro Sosa, RM Bednar, RA Mehl… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
During integration into materials, the inactivation of enzymes as a result of their interaction
with nanometer size denaturing “hotspots” on surfaces represents a critical challenge. This …

Immobilization of proteins with controlled load and orientation

RM Bednar, TW Golbek, KM Kean… - … applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Biomaterials based on immobilized proteins are key elements of many biomedical and
industrial technologies. However, applications are limited by an inability to precisely construct …

Nanobody assemblies with fully flexible topology enabled by genetically encoded tetrazine amino acids

EM Van Fossen, RM Bednar, S Jana, R Franklin… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Assembling nanobodies (Nbs) into polyvalent multimers is a powerful strategy for improving
the effectiveness of Nb-based therapeutics and biotechnological tools. However, generally …

Overcoming near-cognate suppression in a release factor 1-deficient host with an improved nitro-tyrosine tRNA synthetase

…, EM Van Fossen, P Zhu, RM Bednar… - Journal of molecular …, 2020 - Elsevier
Genetic code expansion (GCE) technologies incorporate non-canonical amino acids (ncAAs)
into proteins at amber stop codons. To avoid unwanted truncated protein and improve …

Rational design for high bioorthogonal fluorogenicity of tetrazine‐encoded green fluorescent proteins

L Tang, RM Bednar, ND Rozanov… - Natural …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The development of bioorthogonal fluorogenic probes constitutes a vital force to advance life
sciences. Tetrazine‐encoded green fluorescent proteins (GFPs) show high bioorthogonal …

Truncation-Free Genetic Code Expansion with Tetrazine Amino Acids for Quantitative Protein Ligations

AJ Eddins, RM Bednar, S Jana, AH Pung… - Bioconjugate …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Quantitative labeling of biomolecules is necessary to advance areas of antibody–drug
conjugation, super-resolution microscopy imaging of molecules in live cells, and determination of …

Engineering mutually orthogonal PylRS/tRNA pairs for dual encoding of functional histidine analogues

CJ Taylor, FJ Hardy, AJ Burke, RM Bednar… - Protein …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The availability of an expanded genetic code opens exciting new opportunities in enzyme
design and engineering. In this regard histidine analogues have proven particularly versatile, …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering spatial orthogonality into protein translation

EM Van Fossen, RM Bednar, RA Mehl - Biochemistry, 2019 - ACS Publications
Edward Lemke and his team have recently reported the creation of a membraneless organelle
for site-specific protein engineering, achieving a functioning level of spatial orthogonality …