Proteins are responsible for most physiological processes, and their abundance provides crucial information for systems biology research. However, absolute protein quantification, as determined by mass spectrometry, still has limitations in capturing...
Structural modifications of known antibiotic scaffolds have kept the upper hand on resistance, but we are on the verge of not having antibiotics for many common infections. Mechanism-based discovery assays reveal novelty, exclude off-target liabiliti...
Efficient and precise base editors (BEs) for C-to-G transversion are highly desirable. However, the sequence context affecting editing outcome largely remains unclear. Here we report engineered C-to-G BEs of high efficiency and fidelity, with the seq...
In order to make renewable fuels and chemicals from microbes, new methods are required to engineer microbes more intelligently. Computational approaches, to engineer strains for enhanced chemical production typically rely on detailed mechanistic mode...
We developed a method to improve protein thermostability, "loop-walking method". Three consecutive positions in 12 loops of Burkholderia cepacia lipase were subjected to random mutagenesis to make 12 libraries. Screening allowed us to identify L7 as ...
Crosslinking mass spectrometry has developed into a robust technique that is increasingly used to investigate the interactomes of organelles and cells. However, the incomplete and noisy information in the mass spectra of crosslinked peptides limits t...
Lysine succinylation is a typical protein post-translational modification and plays a crucial role of regulation in the cellular process. Identifying succinylation sites is fundamental to explore its functions. Although many computational methods wer...
There is limited literature examining the accuracy of the VITEK 2 Advanced Expert System (AES) in characterisation of β-lactamase resistance patterns. We present a prospective single centre study to better ascertain the performance characteristics of...
Advances in microscopy, microfluidics, and optogenetics enable single-cell monitoring and environmental regulation and offer the means to control cellular phenotypes. The development of such systems is challenging and often results in bespoke setups ...
Ribozyme switches are a class of RNA-encoded genetic switch that support conditional regulation of gene expression across diverse organisms. An improved elucidation of the relationships between sequence, structure, and activity can improve our capaci...