Direct charging of tRNACUA with pyrrolysine in vitro and in vivo

Nature

Volumn 431, Issue 7006, 2004, Pages 333-335

  Blight, Sherry K ^a   Larue, Ross C ^a   Mahapatra, Anirban ^a   Longstaff, David G ^a   Chang, Edward ^a   Zhao, Gang ^a,b   Kang, Patrick T ^a   Green Church, Karl B ^a   Chan, Michael K ^a   Krzycki, Joseph A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Biomedical Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; GENES; PROTEINS;

AMINOACYLATION; PYRROLYSINE; SENSE CODONS;

RNA;

AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; LYSINE DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN PYLS; PYRROLINE DERIVATIVE; PYRROLYSINE; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOLOGY;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; RNA TRANSLATION; STOP CODON;

ACYLATION; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; ANTICODON; ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; CELL-FREE SYSTEM; CODON; DIPHOSPHATES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC CODE; LYSINE; METHYLTRANSFERASES; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACID-SPECIFIC; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 4644312237     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02895     Document Type: Article

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