The pyrrolysine translational machinery as a genetic-code expansion tool

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 387-391

  Fekner, Tomasz ^a   Chan, Michael K ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; PYRROLYSYL TRNA PYRROLYSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

EUKARYOTE; GENETIC CODE; METHANOSARCINA MAZEI; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW;

AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; CODON, TERMINATOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; GENETIC CODE; LYSINE; METHANOSARCINA BARKERI; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 79958006206     PISSN: 13675931     EISSN: 18790402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2011.03.007     Document Type: Review

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