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ArticleNature methods2017

Biosynthesis and genetic encoding of phosphothreonine through parallel selection and deep sequencing.

Michael Shaofei Zhang, Simon F Brunner, Nicolas Huguenin-Dezot, Alexandria D Liang, Wolfgang H Schmied, Daniel T Rogerson, Jason W Chin

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Article in Nature methods, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 95 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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95citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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3 · Its place in the literature

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95 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 156 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Michael Shaofei Zhang *Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge, England, UK.
Simon F Brunner *Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge, England, UK.
Nicolas Huguenin-DezotMedical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge, England, UK.
Alexandria D LiangMedical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge, England, UK.
Wolfgang H SchmiedMedical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge, England, UK.
Daniel T RogersonMedical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge, England, UK.
Jason W ChinMedical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge, England, UK.
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology · GB

Funding

European Research Council 200583Medical Research Council MC_U105181009Medical Research Council MC_UP_A024_1008
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The phosphorylation of threonine residues in proteins regulates diverse processes in eukaryotic cells, and thousands of threonine phosphorylations have been identified. An understanding of how threonine phosphorylation regulates biological function will be accelerated by general methods to biosynthesize defined phosphoproteins. Here we describe a rapid approach for directly discovering aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase-tRNA pairs that selectively incorporate non-natural amino acids into proteins; our method uses parallel positive selections combined with deep sequencing and statistical analysis and enables the direct, scalable discovery of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase-tRNA pairs with mutually orthogonal substrate specificity. By combining a method to biosynthesize phosphothreonine in cells with this selection approach, we discover a phosphothreonyl-tRNA synthetase-tRNA

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Amino Acyl-tRNA SynthetasesBacterial ProteinsEscherichia coliGenetic EngineeringModels, MolecularPhosphothreonineProtein ConformationProtein EngineeringProtein Processing, Post-TranslationalRNA, TransferSalmonella entericaSubstrate SpecificityAmino Acyl-tRNA SynthetasesBacterial ProteinsPhosphothreonineRNA, Transfer

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PMID28553966
PMCPMC5493988
OpenAlexW2617704854

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