| Literature DB >> 19246005 |
Francis B Peters1, Ansgar Brock, Jiangyun Wang, Peter G Schultz.
Abstract
Photocleavage of the polypeptide backbone is potentially a powerful and general method to activate or deactivate functional peptides and proteins with high spatial and temporal resolution. Here we show that 2-nitrophenylalanine is able to photochemically cleave the polypeptide backbone by an unusual cinnoline-forming reaction. This unnatural amino acid was genetically encoded in E. coli, and protein containing 2-nitrophenylalanine was expressed and site-specifically photocleaved.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19246005 PMCID: PMC2714363 DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2009.01.013
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Chem Biol ISSN: 1074-5521