Overcoming Challenges in Engineering the Genetic Code

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 428, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1004-1021

  Lajoie, M J ^a,b   Soll D ^c   Church, G M ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

expanded genetic code; genome engineering; genomically recoded organism (GRO)

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTICODON; CODON; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MULTIPLEX AUTOMATED GENOME ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA STRUCTURE; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; VIRUS RESISTANCE; GENE TARGETING; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PROCEDURES;

GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CODE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

EID: 84960803975     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: 10898638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2015.09.003     Document Type: Review

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