Adding pyrrolysine to the Escherichia coli genetic code

FEBS Letters

Volumn 581, Issue 27, 2007, Pages 5282-5288

  Namy, Olivier ^a   Zhou, Yu ^c,d   Gundllapalli, Sarath ^b   Polycarpo, Carla R ^b   Denise, Alain ^c   Rousset, Jean Pierre ^a   Söll, Dieter ^b   Ambrogelly, Alexandre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique   (France)

^d WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Methanosarcina barkeri; PYLIS; Pyrrolysine; Selenocysteine; Stop codon suppression; Translation termination

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; LYSINE DERIVATIVE; N EPSILON CYCLOPENTYLOXYCARBONYL LEVO LYSINE; ORNITHINE; PYRROLYSINE; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC CODE; METHANOSARCINA BARKERI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; RNA STRUCTURE; STOP CODON; TRANSLATION REGULATION; TRANSLATION TERMINATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; METHANOSARCINA BARKERI;

EID: 35548939370     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2007.10.022     Document Type: Article

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