Design and engineering of metalloproteins containing unnatural amino acids or non-native metal-containing cofactors.
An emerging branch of metalloprotein design and engineering is on the horizon, where unnatural amino acids or non-native metal-containing cofactors are employed in the design and engineering process. These endeavors have been shown to be quite effective in elucidating the precise roles of key residues in protein structures and functions, in providing guiding principles on protein design, in fine-tuning the protein properties to an unprecedented level, and in expanding the repertoire of protein functionalities, and thus its range of applications.
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Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA. yi-lu@uiuc.edu
D000596:Amino Acids / Q000737:chemistry*; D001665:Binding Sites; D008667:Metalloproteins / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D008670:Metals / Q000737:chemistry*; D008958:Models, Molecular; D011487:Protein Conformation; D015202:Protein Engineering
D000596:Amino Acids; D008667:Metalloproteins; D008670:Metals