Enhancing the utility of unnatural amino acid synthetases by manipulating broad substrate specificity

Molecular BioSystems

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1032-1038

  Stokes, Audrey L ^a   Miyake Stoner, Shigeki J ^a   Peeler, Jennifer C ^a   Nguyen, Duy P ^a   Hammer, Robert P ^b,c   Mehl, Ryan A ^a  

^a FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c New England Peptide   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMINO ACID; AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; BENZOYLPHENYLALANINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; PHENYLALANINE; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ALANINE; AMINO ACIDS; AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PHENYLALANINE; PROTEINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 68949117722     PISSN: 1742206X     EISSN: 17422051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b904032c     Document Type: Article

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