Serine phosphorylation is frequently used to control the activity of proteins. Eukaryotic cells employ cascades of these phosphorylation events to encode and distribute information. In this issue of Cell Chemical Biology, Beránek et al. (2018) report the creation of a system to genetically incorporate phosphoserine in mammalian cells, thereby circumventing upstream kinase signaling.
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