title: Protein splicing and its applications.
abstract: Protein splicing elements, termed inteins, provide a fertile source for innovative biotechnology tools. First harnessed for protein purification, inteins are now used to express cytotoxic proteins, to segmentally modify or label proteins, to cyclize proteins or peptides, to study structure-activity relationships and to generate reactive polypeptide termini in expressed proteins for an expanding list of chemoselective reactions, including protein ligation.
authors.affiliation: New England BioLabs Inc, Beverly, MA 01915, USA. perler@neb.com
authors.forename: F B
authors.initials: FB
authors.lastname: Perler
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Adam
mesh_terms: D001709:Biotechnology / Q000379:methods*; D019154:Protein Splicing; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification*
chemical_list: D011994:Recombinant Proteins