Site Specific Genetic Incorporation of Azidophenylalanine in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

The diversity of protein functions is impacted in significant part by the chemical properties of the twenty amino acids, which are used as building blocks for nearly all proteins. The ability to incorporate unnatural amino acids (UAA) into proteins in a site specific manner can vastly expand the repertoire of protein functions and also allows detailed analysis of protein function. In recent years UAAs have been incorporated in a site-specific manner into proteins in a number of organisms. In nearly all cases, the amber codon is used as a sense codon, and an orthogonal tRNA/aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase (RS) pair is used to generate amber suppressing tRNAs charged with the UAA. In this work, we have developed tools to incorporate the cross-linking amino acid azido-phenylalanine (AzF) through the use of bacterial tRNA(Tyr) and a modified version of TyrRS, AzFRS, in Schizosaccharomyces pombe, which is an attractive model organism for the study of cell behavior and function. We have incorporated AzF into three different proteins. We show that the majority of AzF is modified to amino-phenyl alanine, but protein cross-linking was still observed. These studies set the stage for exploitation of this new technology for the analysis of S. pombe proteins.

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ErratumIn: Sci Rep. 2016;6:21354. - PMID 26900027

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2015

Erschienen:

2015

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:5

Enthalten in:

Scientific reports - 5(2015) vom: 24. Nov., Seite 17196

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Shao, Nan [VerfasserIn]
Singh, N Sadananda [VerfasserIn]
Slade, Susan E [VerfasserIn]
Jones, Alexandra M E [VerfasserIn]
Balasubramanian, Mohan K [VerfasserIn]

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33173-53-4
4-azidophenylalanine
47E5O17Y3R
Azides
Codon, Terminator
Journal Article
Phenylalanine
RNA, Bacterial
RNA, Transfer, Amino Acyl
RNA, Transfer, Tyr
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Schizosaccharomyces pombe Proteins
TRNA, azidophenylalanine-

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Date Completed 19.09.2016

Date Revised 13.11.2018

published: Electronic

ErratumIn: Sci Rep. 2016;6:21354. - PMID 26900027

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/srep17196

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM254912656