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SUBMITTER: Wan W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4016821 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wan Wei W Tharp Jeffery M JM Liu Wenshe R WR
Biochimica et biophysica acta 20140312 6
The genetic incorporation of the 22nd proteinogenic amino acid, pyrrolysine (Pyl) at amber codon is achieved by the action of pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase (PylRS) together with its cognate tRNA(Pyl). Unlike most aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, PylRS displays high substrate side chain promiscuity, low selectivity toward its substrate α-amine, and low selectivity toward the anticodon of tRNA(Pyl). These unique but ordinary features of PylRS as an aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase allow the Pyl incorporation mac ...[more]