Sense codon emancipation for proteome-wide incorporation of noncanonical amino acids: Rare isoleucine codon AUA as a target for genetic code expansion

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 351, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 133-144

  Bohlke, Nina ^a   Budisa, Nediljko ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Codon emancipation; Genetic code; Orthogonal pairs; Reassignment; Sense codons; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; AGMATIDINE SYNTHASE; AMINO ACID; AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; BACTERIAL DNA; LYSIDINE TRANSFER RNA SYNTHASE; MOBILE TRANSFER RNA; NON CANONICAL AMINO ACID; NORVALINE; PHENYLALANINE; PROTEOME; TRANSFER RNA; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URACIL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINOACYLATION; ANTICODON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BASE PAIRING; CANDIDA; CODON; CODON USAGE; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CODE DEGENERACY; GENETIC CODE EXPANSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; METHANOSARCINACEAE; MYCOPLASMA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SENSE CODON EMANCIPATION; START CODON; STOP CODON; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; WATSON CRICK BASE PAIRING; WOBBLE BASE PAIRING;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

CODON EMANCIPATION; GENETIC CODE; ORTHOGONAL PAIRS; REASSIGNMENT; SENSE CODONS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

AMINO ACIDS; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC CODE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, TRANSFER, ILE;

EID: 84896718772     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6968.12371     Document Type: Article

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