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Progress toward the evolution of an organism with an expanded genetic code.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 27 Apr 1999
Liu D R, Schultz P G
Abstract excerpt
Several significant steps have been completed toward a general method for the site-specific incorporation of unnatural amino acids into proteins in vivo. An "orthogonal" suppressor tRNA was derived from Saccharomyces cerevisiae tRNA2Gln. This yeast orthogonal tRNA is not a substrate in vitro or in vivo for any Escherichia coli aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase, including E. coli glutaminyl-tRNA synthetase (GlnRS), yet...
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