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SUBMITTER: Ad O
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6661870 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ad Omer O Hoffman Kyle S KS Cairns Andrew G AG Featherston Aaron L AL Miller Scott J SJ Söll Dieter D Schepartz Alanna A
ACS central science 20190626 7
Here, we report that wild type <i>Escherichia coli</i> ribosomes accept and elongate precharged initiator tRNAs acylated with multiple benzoic acids, including aramid precursors, as well as malonyl (1,3-dicarbonyl) substrates to generate a diverse set of aramid-peptide and polyketide-peptide hybrid molecules. This work expands the scope of ribozyme- and ribosome-catalyzed chemical transformations, provides a starting point for <i>in vivo</i> translation engineering efforts, and offers an alterna ...[more]