Expanding and reprogramming the genetic code
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- 5 October 2017
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature
- Vol. 550 (7674), 53-60
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nature24031
Abstract
Nature uses a limited, conservative set of amino acids to synthesize proteins. The ability to genetically encode an expanded set of building blocks with new chemical and physical properties is transforming the study, manipulation and evolution of proteins, and is enabling diverse applications, including approaches to probe, image and control protein function, and to precisely engineer therapeutics. Underpinning this transformation are strategies to engineer and rewire translation. Emerging strategies aim to reprogram the genetic code so that noncanonical biopolymers can be synthesized and evolved, and to test the limits of our ability to engineer the translational machinery and systematically recode genomes.Keywords
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