Development of improved tRNAs for in vitro biosynthesis of proteins containing unnatural amino acids

Chemistry and Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1033-1038

  Cload, Sharon T ^a   Liu, David R ^a   Froland, Wayne A ^a   Schultz, Peter G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

in vitro translation; nonsense suppression; suppressor tRNA; unnatural amino acid mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030482172     PISSN: 10745521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-5521(96)90169-6     Document Type: Article

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