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Engineering inflammation-responsive proteins through nitric oxide-caged amino acids.

Aug 2026 · Nature Biomedical Engineering · 0 citations · 44 references
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This work reports a protein engineering strategy that enables selective restoration of protein function in nitric oxide-rich environments and establishes nitric oxide-triggered chemical reactivation of proteins as a generalizable method for post-translational control of protein function.

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