A chemical toolkit for proteins - An expanded genetic code

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 775-782

  Xie, Jianming ^a   Schultz, Peter G ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; BIOPOLYMER; MYOGLOBIN; STREPTAVIDIN;

CODON; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLYCOSYLATION; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

AMINO ACIDS; AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC CODE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEINS; RNA, TRANSFER;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33749019097     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm2005     Document Type: Review

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