Complete set of orthogonal 21st aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase-amber, ochre and opal suppressor tRNA pairs: Concomitant suppression of three different termination codons in an mRNA in mammalian cells

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 6200-6211

  Köhrer, Caroline ^a   Sullivan, Eric L ^a   RajBhandary, Uttam L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; AMINO ACID; AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; GLUTAMINE TRANSFER RNA; GLYCINE; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFER RNA; URACIL;

AMINOACYLATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAMMAL CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; STOP CODON;

AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CODON, TERMINATOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, REPORTER; GENES, SUPPRESSOR; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RNA, TRANSFER; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

EID: 13444266438     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh959     Document Type: Article

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