Issue 46, 2010
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Chemical Communications

Computational design of orthogonal nucleoside kinases†‡

Lingfeng Liu,a   Paul Murphy,b   David Bakerbc  and  Stefan Lutz*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, USA
E-mail: sal2@emory.edu
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b Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

c Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Seattle, USA

Abstract

We report the computational enzyme design of an orthogonal nucleoside analog kinase for 3′-deoxythymidine. The best kinase variant shows an 8500-fold change in substrate specificity, resulting from a 4.6-fold gain in catalytic efficiency for the nucleoside analog and a 2000-fold decline for the native substrate thymidine.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0CC02961K
Article type
Communication
Submitted
01 Aug 2010
Accepted
29 Sep 2010
First published
19 Oct 2010

Chem. Commun., 2010,46, 8803-8805

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L. Liu, P. Murphy, D. Baker and S. Lutz, Chem. Commun., 2010, 46, 8803 DOI: 10.1039/C0CC02961K

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