Enzyme-free translation of DNA into sequence-defined synthetic polymers structurally unrelated to nucleic acids

Nature Chemistry

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 282-292

  Niu, Jia ^a   Hili, Ryan ^a   Liu, David R ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACID; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CODON; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENETICS; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SYNTHESIS;

CODON; DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACIDS; POLYMERS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TEMPLATES, GENETIC;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84875420027     PISSN: 17554330     EISSN: 17554349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1577     Document Type: Article

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51. Fellowship. R.H. was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from Canada's National Science and Engineering Council (NSERC). The authors are grateful to J. Heemstra, Y. Brudno, C. Dumelin, Y. Lu and S. Trauger for helpful discussions.