New organic chemistry for protein design and analysis

ORGN 376

David Tirrell, tirrell@caltech.edu, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Mail Code 210-41, Pasadena, CA 91125
In the last few years, several laboratories, including our own, have shown that a substantially expanded set of amino acids can be used for protein design and analysis. This lecture will explore the utility of non-canonical amino acids in protein design, evolution, imaging and analysis.