Recent advances in genetic code engineering in Escherichia coli

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 751-757

  Hoesl, Michael Georg ^a   Budisa, Nediljko ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CURRENT FUNCTION; GENERAL TOOLS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CODE ENGINEERING; LIVING CELL; MAXIMUM DEGREE; PROTEIN TRANSLATION; PROTEOMES; SOLID BASIS; SYNTHETASES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

AMINO ACIDS; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); ESCHERICHIA COLI; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

BIOSYNTHESIS;

AMINO ACID; MESSENGER RNA; TYROSINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMINOACYLATION; ANTICODON; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC CODE; METHANOCALDOCOCCUS JANNASCHII; METHANOSARCINACEAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; STOP CODON;

AMINO ACIDS; AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CODON; CODON, TERMINATOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, TRANSFER;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84867220294     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2011.12.027     Document Type: Review

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