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SUBMITTER: Liu J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6022368 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liu Jihe J Hemphill James J Samanta Subhas S Tsang Michael M Deiters Alexander A
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20170628 27
Site-specific incorporation of unnatural amino acids into proteins provides a powerful tool to study protein function. Here we report genetic code expansion in zebrafish embryos and its application to the optogenetic control of cell signaling. We genetically encoded four unnatural amino acids with a diverse set of functional groups, which included a photocaged lysine that was applied to the light-activation of luciferase and kinase activity. This approach enables versatile manipulation of protei ...[more]