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Genomes and GenesSpecies | F B PerlerSummaryAffiliation: New England Biolabs Country: USA Publications
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Compilation and analysis of intein sequencesF B Perler
New England Biolabs Inc, Beverly, MA 01915, USA
Nucleic Acids Res 25:1087-93. 1997....
Protein splicing mechanisms and applicationsFrancine B Perler
New England Biolabs, Ipswich, Massachusetts 01915, USA
IUBMB Life 58:63. 2006
InBase: the Intein DatabaseFrancine B Perler
New England Biolabs Inc, 32 Tozer Road, Beverly, MA 01915, USA
Nucleic Acids Res 30:383-4. 2002..It presents general information as well as detailed data for each intein, including tabulated comparisons and a comprehensive bibliography. An intein-specific BLAST server is now available to assist in identifying new inteins...
Protein splicing and its applicationsF B Perler
New England Biolabs Inc, Beverly, MA 01915, USA
Curr Opin Biotechnol 11:377-83. 2000....
InBase, the Intein DatabaseF B Perler
New England Biolabs, Inc, 32 Tozer Road, Beverly, MA 01915, USA
Nucleic Acids Res 28:344-5. 2000..InBase presents general information as well as detailed data for each intein, including tabu-lated comparisons and a comprehensive bibliography...
InBase, the New England Biolabs Intein DatabaseF B Perler
New England Biolabs, Inc, 32 Tozer Road, Beverly, MA 01915, USA
Nucleic Acids Res 27:346-7. 1999..html), is a comprehensive on-line database that includes the Intein Registry, along with detailed information about each intein and its host protein, tabulated comparisons and a comprehensive bibliography including papers in press...
Protein splicing and autoproteolysis mechanismsF B Perler
New England Biolabs Inc, 32 Tozer Road, Beverly, MA 01915, USA
Curr Opin Chem Biol 1:292-9. 1997..Although such acyl rearrangements are thermodynamically unfavorable, their coupling to diverse types of self-catalyzed irreversible steps drives the protein rearrangements to completion...
Protein splicing mechanisms and applicationsFrancine B Perler
New England Biolabs, Ipswich, Massachusetts 01938 2723, USA
IUBMB Life 57:469-76. 2005..Recent advances include intein-mediated attachment of proteins to solid supports for microarray or western blot analysis, linking nucleic acids to proteins and controllable splicing, which converts inteins into molecular switches...
Protein splicing: A versatile tool for drug discoveryManoj Cheriyan
New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA 01938, USA
Adv Drug Deliv Rev 61:899-907. 2009..Inteins are rapidly becoming valuable tools for drug discovery and drug delivery...
Protein splicing of inteins and hedgehog autoproteolysis: structure, function, and evolutionF B Perler
New England Biolabs, Inc, Beverly, Massachusetts 01915, USA
Cell 92:1-4. 1998
Single-column purification of free recombinant proteins using a self-cleavable affinity tag derived from a protein splicing elementS Chong
New England Biolabs, Beverly, MA 01915, USA
Gene 192:271-81. 1997..No exogenous proteolytic cleavage is needed. Furthermore, using this procedure, the purified free target protein can be specifically labeled at its C-terminus...
Splicing of the mycobacteriophage Bethlehem DnaB intein: identification of a new mechanistic class of inteins that contain an obligate block F nucleophileKazuo Tori
New England Biolabs, Ipswich, Massachusetts 01938, USA
J Biol Chem 285:2515-26. 2010....
Protein splicing in cis and in transLana Saleh
New England Biolabs, 240 County Road, Ipswich, Massachusetts 01938, USA
Chem Rec 6:183-93. 2006..Understanding the protein splicing pathway has allowed scientists to harness inteins for numerous applications...
Rescue of protein splicing activity from a Magnetospirillum magnetotacticum intein-like elementM W Southworth
New England Biolabs, 32 Tozer Road, Beverly, MA 01915, U.S.A
Biochem Soc Trans 32:250-4. 2004..Mutation of Tyr+1 to Phe or Ala indicated that the Tyr side-chain hydroxyl was not necessary for N-terminal cleavage. Protein splicing activity could be rescued by "reversion" of Tyr+1 to Cys...
Expanding the definition of class 3 inteins and their proposed phage originKazuo Tori
New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA 01938, USA
J Bacteriol 193:2035-41. 2011..Based on phylogenetic analysis, we propose that class 3 inteins arose from a single mutated intein that was spread by phage into predominantly helicase genes in various phages and their hosts...
Bacteriophage-based genetic system for selection of nonsplicing inteinsIsaac K O Cann
New England Biolabs, Inc, Beverly, Massachusetts 01915, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 70:3158-62. 2004..Development of genetic systems with the potential of identifying protein splicing inhibitors is a first step towards controlling proliferation of pathogenic microbes harboring inteins in essential proteins...
Creation of an artificial bifunctional intein by grafting a homing endonuclease into a mini-inteinMarilena Fitzsimons Hall
New England Biolabs, Inc, 32 Tozer Road, Beverly, MA 01915, USA
J Mol Biol 323:173-9. 2002..The function of each domain therefore remained unaffected by the presence of the other domain. This artificial fusion of the two domains is a potential novel mobile genetic element...
Development of a positive genetic selection system for inhibition of protein splicing using mycobacterial inteins in Escherichia coli DNA gyrase subunit AEric Adam
New England Biolabs, Beverly, MA 01915, USA
J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol 4:479-87. 2002..Mutations were mapped onto a structure-based sequence alignment, which led to the rational prediction of a temperature-sensitive splicing mutation. GyrA intein subdomain relationships also provided insight into intein evolution...
Protein splicing of the Deinococcus radiodurans strain R1 Snf2 inteinMaurice W Southworth
New England Biolabs, Beverly, Massachusetts 01915, USA
J Bacteriol 184:6387-8. 2002..However, a type strain (ATCC 13939, RF18410) yielded a single protein that splices by the Ala1 protein splicing pathway, with splicing dependent on adjacent residues...
Shining a light on protein expression in living organismsFrancine B Perler
Nat Chem Biol 3:17-8. 2007
The mechanism of intein-mediated protein splicing: variations on a themeKenneth V Mills
College of the Holy Cross, Department of Chemistry, 1 College Street, Worcester MA 01610, USA
Protein Pept Lett 12:751-5. 2005..Non-canonical inteins missing conserved nucleophilic residues at the N- or C-terminus likely splice using variations of the standard mechanism...
NMR structure of a KlbA intein precursor from Methanococcus jannaschiiMargaret A Johnson
The Scripps Research Institute, Department of Molecular Biology, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Protein Sci 16:1316-28. 2007..Structure-based mutation experiments resulted in a proposal for functional roles of individual residues in the intein catalytic mechanism...
The ins and outs of gene expression controlFrancine B Perler
Nat Biotechnol 22:824-6. 2004
