Experimental challenges of sense codon reassignment: An innovative approach to genetic code expansion

FEBS Letters

Volumn 588, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 383-388

  Krishnakumar, Radha ^a   Ling, Jiqiang ^b  

^a J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic code expansion; Mycoplasma mycoides; Pyrrolysyl tRNA synthetase; Sense codon recoding

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN PYLRS; SYNTHETASE; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINOACYLATION; ANTICODON; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CODON; DNA MODIFICATION; GENE SYNTHESIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC REASSORTMENT; MICROBIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA PROCESSING; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STOP CODON;

MYCOPLASMA MYCOIDES;

AARS; AMINOACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASE; GENETIC CODE EXPANSION; MYCOPLASMA MYCOIDES; NCAAS; NON-CANONICAL AMINO ACIDS; ORTHOGONAL TRANSLATION SYSTEM; OTS; PYL; PYRROLYSINE; PYRROLYSYL-TRNA SYNTHETASE; SENSE CODON RECODING;

AMINO ACIDS; AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; CODON; CODON, TERMINATOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC CODE; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINS;

EID: 84892823522     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: 18733468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2013.11.039     Document Type: Article

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