Reassignment of a rare sense codon to a non-canonical amino acid in Escherichia coli

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 8111-8122

  Mukai, Takahito ^a,b   Yamaguchi, Atsushi ^a   Ohtake, Kazumasa ^a   Takahashi, Mihoko ^a   Hayashi, Akiko ^a   Iraha, Fumie ^a   Kira, Satoshi ^a   Yanagisawa, Tatsuo ^a   Yokoyama, Shigeyuki ^a   Hoshi, Hiroko ^a,c   Kobayashi, Takatsugu ^a   Sakamoto, Kensaku ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAEBASHI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; ARGININE; HOMOARGININE; N6 (1 IMINOETHYL)LYSINE; PYRROLYSYL TRANSFER RNA SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AMINO ACID; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; LYSINE; N(6)-(1-IMINOETHYL)LYSINE; PROTEOME; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN VIVO STUDY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENE REPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

AMINO ACIDS; AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; ARGININE; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; HOMOARGININE; LYSINE; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEOME; RNA, TRANSFER; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

EID: 84942288076     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv787     Document Type: Article

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