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Efficient decoding of the UAG triplet as a full-fledged sense codon enhances the growth of a prfA-deficient strain of Escherichia coli.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 May 2012
Ohtake Kazumasa, Sato Aya, Mukai Takahito, Hino Nobumasa, Yokoyama Shigeyuki, Sakamoto Kensaku
Abstract excerpt
We previously reassigned the amber UAG stop triplet as a sense codon in Escherichia coli by expressing a UAG-decoding tRNA and knocking out the prfA gene, encoding release factor 1. UAG triplets were left at the ends of about 300 genes in the genome. In the present study, we showed that the detrimental effect of UAG reassignment could be alleviated by increasing the efficiency of UAG translation instead of...
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