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Weston Kightlinger

Northwestern University
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[HTML][HTML] A cell-free biosynthesis platform for modular construction of protein glycosylation pathways

W Kightlinger, KE Duncker, A Ramesh… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Glycosylation plays important roles in cellular function and endows protein therapeutics with
beneficial properties. However, constructing biosynthetic pathways to study and engineer …

Design of glycosylation sites by rapid synthesis and analysis of glycosyltransferases

W Kightlinger, L Lin, M Rosztoczy, W Li… - Nature chemical …, 2018 - nature.com
Glycosylation is an abundant post-translational modification that is important in disease and
biotechnology. Current methods to understand and engineer glycosylation cannot …

Cell-free systems for accelerating glycoprotein expression and biomanufacturing

J Hershewe, W Kightlinger… - Journal of Industrial …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Protein glycosylation, the enzymatic modification of amino acid sidechains with sugar
moieties, plays critical roles in cellular function, human health, and biotechnology. However, …

A cell‐free platform for rapid synthesis and testing of active oligosaccharyltransferases

…, JM Hershewe, JC Stark, W Kightlinger… - Biotechnology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Protein glycosylation, or the attachment of sugar moieties (glycans) to proteins, is important
for protein stability, activity, and immunogenicity. However, understanding the roles and …

Synthetic glycobiology: parts, systems, and applications

W Kightlinger, KF Warfel, MP DeLisa… - ACS synthetic …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Protein glycosylation, the attachment of sugars to amino acid side chains, can endow proteins
with a wide variety of properties of great interest to the engineering biology community. …

[HTML][HTML] A rapid cell-free expression and screening platform for antibody discovery

…, AO Hassan, L Guerrero, W Kightlinger… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Antibody discovery is bottlenecked by the individual expression and evaluation of antigen-specific
hits. Here, we address this bottleneck by developing a workflow combining cell-free …

[HTML][HTML] Global mapping of GalNAc-T isoform-specificities and O-glycosylation site-occupancy in a tissue-forming human cell line

MI Nielsen, N de Haan, W Kightlinger, Z Ye… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Mucin-type-O-glycosylation on proteins is integrally involved in human health and disease
and is coordinated by an enzyme family of 20 N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferases (GalNAc-Ts…

Rapid production and characterization of antimicrobial colicins using Escherichia coli-based cell-free protein synthesis

X Jin, W Kightlinger, YC Kwon, SH Hong - Synthetic Biology, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Colicins are antimicrobial proteins produced by Escherichia coli, which, upon secretion from
the host, kill non-host E. coli strains by forming pores in the inner membrane and degrading …

Sequential Glycosylation of Proteins with Substrate-Specific N-Glycosyltransferases

L Lin, W Kightlinger, SK Prabhu… - ACS Central …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Protein glycosylation is a common post-translational modification that influences the functions
and properties of proteins. Despite advances in methods to produce defined glycoproteins …

Scale‐up of agitated drying: Effect of shear stress and hydrostatic pressure on active pharmaceutical ingredient powder properties

B Remy, W Kightlinger, EM Saurer… - AIChE …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Scale‐up of agitated drying processes to minimize particle size changes in active pharmaceutical
ingredients (API) can be challenging. Particle agglomeration or attrition problems due …