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Our one-pot biocatalytic cascade for synthesis of Phe derivatives is now available online at ChemCatChem
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Also online now on bioRxiv is our larger story where we couple this pathway to GCE tools in live cells
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
December 23, 2024 at 9:45 PM
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Engineering a ribozyme with aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase activity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.12.627959v1
December 13, 2024 at 3:46 AM
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Check out our latest pre-print on building biocatalytic cascades for the synthesis of phenylalanine derivatives for applications in genetic code expansion

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Andrew Buller's lab at Wisconsin is also doing terrific work in this area - stay tuned for that too

#synbio
A One-Pot Biocatalytic Cascade to Access Diverse L-Phenylalanine Derivatives from Aldehydes or Carboxylic Acids
Non-standard amino acids (nsAAs) that are L-phenylalanine derivatives with aryl ring functionalization have long been harnessed in natural product synthesis, therapeutic peptide synthesis, and diverse...
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December 11, 2024 at 4:31 AM
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Check out 🏆A Biologist’s Guide to Mars Dirt, where we present a receipt for soluble Mars Regolith Media (sMRM) that best simulates what you’d get if you added water to Mars dirt.

Will anything grow in this media? Stay tuned!

💧+ 🪨 → 🌱 ?

open.substack.com/pub/pioneerl...
🏆 A Biologist’s Guide to Mars Dirt
Just add water
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December 10, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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Nice work from Tao Liu lab on engineering novel fluorescent proteins using a rotor-based fluorogenic noncanonical amino acid www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Designing artificial fluorescent proteins and biosensors by genetically encoding molecular rotor-based amino acids - Nature Chemistry
The toolbox of artificial fluorescent proteins can be expanded by engineering mimics of the molecular rotor-based fluorophore found in the green fluorescent protein (GFP) into diverse protein scaffold...
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November 30, 2024 at 1:47 PM
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Happy to share Elise and Tarah’s work on building a facile selection system to engineer E. coli leucyl synthetase for site-specific incorporation many new noncanonical amino acids in eukaryotes, including the novel post-translational modification N-acetyl-methyllysine
November 28, 2024 at 4:40 AM
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Sustainable Regeneration of 20 Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases in a Reconstituted System Toward Self-Synthesizing Artificial Systems https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.03.616507v1
Sustainable Regeneration of 20 Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases in a Reconstituted System Toward Self-Synthesizing Artificial Systems https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.03.616507v1
In vitro construction of self-reproducible artificial systems is a major challenge in bottom-up synt
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October 4, 2024 at 6:03 AM
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Here for my first post. Our new approach to study tRNA aminoacylation by nanopore sequencing. Started as a napkin sketch ~1 year ago! This was a fun one, congrats to @laurakwhite.bsky.social and Aleks.

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Nanopore sequencing of intact aminoacylated tRNAs
Transfer RNAs (tRNA) are decorated during biogenesis with a variety of modifications that modulate their stability, aminoacylation, and decoding potential during translation. The complex landscape of ...
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November 19, 2024 at 3:07 AM
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We added another 100 citations (total 577) in the latest version of our review on LLMs and agents in chemistry. Take a look!

arxiv.org/abs/2407.01603
November 18, 2024 at 2:05 AM
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Computational Design of Metallohydrolases https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.13.623507v1
Computational Design of Metallohydrolases https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.13.623507v1
New enzymes can be designed by starting from a description of an ideal active site composed of catal
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November 15, 2024 at 1:45 AM