Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, 10675 John-Jay-Hopkins Drive, San Diego, CA 92121, USA.
Abstract:
Sticky residue: Pyrroline-carboxy-lysine (Pcl) can be readily incorporated into proteins expressed in E. coli and mammalian cells by using the pyrrolysyl tRNA/tRNA synthetase pair. Pcl can be used as a single amino acid purification tag and can be site-specifically modified with functional probes during the elution process.