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ArticleNucleic acids research2015

Revealing the amino acid composition of proteins within an expanded genetic code.

Hans R Aerni, Mark A Shifman, Svetlana Rogulina, Patrick O'Donoghue, Jesse Rinehart

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers.

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52citing papers in PubMed
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

52 citing papers in PubMed, 79 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. Recoding UAG to selenocysteine inRNA (New York, N.Y.) · 2023
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  20. Metabolic stress promotes stop-codon readthrough and phenotypic heterogeneity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Hans R AerniDepartment of Cellular & Molecular Physiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA Systems Biology Institute, Yale University, West Haven, CT 06516, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9477-2949
Mark A ShifmanKeck Biotechnology Resource Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
Svetlana RogulinaDepartment of Cellular & Molecular Physiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA Systems Biology Institute, Yale University, West Haven, CT 06516, USA.
Patrick O'DonoghueDepartments of Biochemistry and Chemistry, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5C1, Canada.
Jesse RinehartDepartment of Cellular & Molecular Physiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA Systems Biology Institute, Yale University, West Haven, CT 06516, USA jesse.rinehart@yale.edu.
Yale University · USWestern University · CAW. M. Keck Foundation · US

Funding

Investigation of Electrolyte Homeostasis via Quantitative ProteomicsK01DK089006 · NIDDK · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI RINEHART, JESSE · 2010 to 2014
$772k
NIDDK NIH HHS K01 DK089006NIDDK NIH HHS K01DK089006
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The genetic code can be manipulated to reassign codons for the incorporation of non-standard amino acids (NSAA). Deletion of release factor 1 in Escherichia coli enhances translation of UAG (Stop) codons, yet may also extended protein synthesis at natural UAG terminated messenger RNAs. The fidelity of protein synthesis at reassigned UAG codons and the purity of the NSAA containing proteins produced require careful examination. Proteomics would be an ideal tool for these tasks, but conventional proteomic analyses cannot readily identify the extended proteins and accurately discover multiple amino acid (AA) insertions at a single UAG. To address these challenges, we created a new proteomic workflow that enabled the detection of UAG readthrough in native proteins in E. coli strains in which UAG was reassigned to encode phosphoserine. The method also enabled quantitation of NSAA and natural AA incorporation at UAG in a recombinant reporter protein. As a proof-of-principle, we measured the fidelity and purity of the phosphoserine orthogonal translation system (OTS) and used this information to improve its performance. Our results show a surprising diversity of natural AAs at reassigned stop codons. Our method can be used to improve OTSs and to quantify amino acid purity at reassigned codons in organisms with expanded genetic codes.

Indexed as

Codon, TerminatorAmino AcidsEscherichia coliEscherichia coli ProteinsGene DeletionPeptide Termination FactorsPhosphoserineProtein BiosynthesisProteinsProteomicsAmino AcidsCodon, TerminatorEscherichia coli ProteinsPeptide Termination FactorsPhosphoserineprfA protein, E coliProteins

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PMID25378305
PMCPMC4333366
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