Unknown

Dataset Information

0

A facile system for encoding unnatural amino acids in mammalian cells.


ABSTRACT: A shuttle system has been developed to genetically encode unnatural amino acids in mammalian cells using aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (aaRSs) evolved in E. coli. A pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase (PylRS) mutant was evolved in E. coli that selectively aminoacylates a cognate nonsense suppressor tRNA with a photocaged lysine derivative. Transfer of this orthogonal tRNA-aaRS pair into mammalian cells made possible the selective incorporation of this unnatural amino acid into proteins.

SUBMITTER: Chen PR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2873846 | biostudies-literature | 2009

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

altmetric image

Publications

A facile system for encoding unnatural amino acids in mammalian cells.

Chen Peng R PR   Groff Dan D   Guo Jiantao J   Ou Weijia W   Cellitti Susan S   Geierstanger Bernhard H BH   Schultz Peter G PG  

Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20090101 22


A shuttle system has been developed to genetically encode unnatural amino acids in mammalian cells using aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (aaRSs) evolved in E. coli. A pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase (PylRS) mutant was evolved in E. coli that selectively aminoacylates a cognate nonsense suppressor tRNA with a photocaged lysine derivative. Transfer of this orthogonal tRNA-aaRS pair into mammalian cells made possible the selective incorporation of this unnatural amino acid into proteins. ...[more]

Similar Datasets

| S-EPMC3718144 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC5356931 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC4051619 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC8718814 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC6481062 | biostudies-literature