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Reducing the genetic code induces massive rearrangement of the proteome.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 2 Dec 2014
O'Donoghue Patrick, Prat Laure, Kucklick Martin, Schäfer Johannes G, Riedel Katharina, Rinehart Jesse, Söll Dieter, Heinemann Ilka U
Abstract excerpt
Expanding the genetic code is an important aim of synthetic biology, but some organisms developed naturally expanded genetic codes long ago over the course of evolution. Less than 1% of all sequenced genomes encode an operon that reassigns the stop codon UAG to pyrrolysine (Pyl), a genetic code variant that results from the biosynthesis of Pyl-tRNA(Pyl). To understand the selective advantage of genetically...
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