Toward the experimental codon reassignment in vivo: Protein building with an expanded amino acid repertoire

FASEB Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 41-51

  Budisa, Nediljko ^a   Minks, Caroline ^a   Alefelder, Stefan ^a   Wenger, Waltraud ^a   Dong, Fumin ^a   Moroder, Luis ^a   Huber, Robert ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Genetic code; Protein folding; Translation

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CODON; DNA REPLICATION; GENE ASSIGNMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 0032928678     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.13.1.41     Document Type: Article

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