Expanding the genetic code

Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure

Volumn 35, Issue , 2006, Pages 225-249

  Wang, Lei ^a   Xie, Jianming ^b   Schultz, Peter G ^b  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acid; Aminoacyl tRNA synthetase; Directed evolution; Protein engineering

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; TRANSFER RNA;

CHEMICAL BINDING; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; FLUORESCENCE; GENETIC CODE; GLYCOSYLATION; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC CODE; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33646253351     PISSN: 10568700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.35.101105.121507     Document Type: Review

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