Transforming a pair of orthogonal tRNA-aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase from Archaea to function in mammalian cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Thibodeaux, Gabrielle Nina ^a   Liang, Xiang ^a   Moncivais, Kathryn ^a   Umeda, Aiko ^a   Singer, Oded ^b   Alfonta, Lital ^c   Zhang, Zhiwen Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; TYROSINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAMMAL CELL; METHANOCOCCUS JANNASCHII; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPECIES COMPARISON;

AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, TRANSFER;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA; METHANOCALDOCOCCUS JANNASCHII;

EID: 77956201737     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011263     Document Type: Article

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