在细胞中,通过基因编码的近距离诱导的烯-异硫酸盐交叉链接进行基因循环
Zhifen Huang1, Shuai Jiang2, Jiaying Ren1
1State Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China.
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
|November 27, 2025
概括
研究人员开发了一种新方法,可以在细胞内制造复杂的循环. 这种遗传密码扩展技术使用异基酸盐组进行高效的交叉链接,使多种循环的生物合成成为可能.
科学领域:
- 生物化学 生化学
- 合成生物学 合成生物学
- 药物发现 药物发现 药物发现
背景情况:
- 循环在药物发现中很有价值,但新的细胞内生物合成仍然具有挑战性.
- 现有的方法在氨基酸组成和复杂循环的序列长度方面存在局限性.
研究的目的:
- 展示一种新的方法,用于新的细胞内循环生物合成.
- 为了克服当前关于氨基酸组成和长度的循环合成的局限性.
主要方法:
- 利用遗传密码扩展来编码一个异基酸盐 (ITC) 组.
- 开发了一种针对循环的选择性N终端Pro (P-ITC) 交联策略.
- 在大肠杆菌中证明了循环的细胞内构造的方法.
主要成果:
- 实现了用于循环形成的选择性和高效的P-ITC交联.
- 在氨基酸组成 (Lys,Cys) 或序列长度上没有限制的情况下合成循环.
- 成功构建了一个13-mer双循环与二硫化物桥梁细胞内.
结论:
- 通过遗传密码扩展进行P-ITC交联,为细胞内循环合成提供了一个多功能平台.
- 这种方法促进了复杂循环的构建和选择,推动了药物发现.
- 这种方法对设计具有治疗潜力的新型循环具有希望.
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