Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins! Ivana Drienovska and coworkers expanded the horizons of #protein engineering and #biocatalysis by synthesizing several new non-canonical amino acids and incorporating them into proteins.
In the cover we imagined a protein as a composition of blocks (the amino acids) where one has a different color, symbolizing the incorporated unnatural amino-acid.
Find out more at: https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cctc.202301004