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ReviewBiochemistry2021

Genetic Code Expansion: A Brief History and Perspective.

Mia A Shandell, Zhongping Tan, Virginia W Cornish

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Review in Biochemistry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 83 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
83citing papers in PubMed
8.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

83 citing papers in PubMed, 152 citations in OpenAlex.

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23 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Mia A ShandellYork Structural Biology Laboratory, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, U.K.ORCID 0000-0002-7864-758X
Zhongping TanState Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substance and Function of Natural Medicines, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100050, China.ORCID 0000-0002-9302-150X
Virginia W CornishDepartment of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, United States.
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College · CNColumbia University · USUniversity of York · GB

Funding

Mechanistic Basis for Amino Acid Discrimination by the Translational MachineryR01GM090126 · NIGMS · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI CORNISH, VIRGINIA W · 2010 to 2013
$1.5M
Glycoengineering of Therapeutic Peptides for Improved Treatment of Human DiseasesR01EB025892 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO · PI SAMMAKIA, TAREK · 2018 to 2021
$1.3M
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB025892NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM090126
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since the establishment of site-specific mutagenesis of single amino acids to interrogate protein function in the 1970s, biochemists have sought to tailor protein structure in the native cell environment. Fine-tuning the chemical properties of proteins is an indispensable way to address fundamental mechanistic questions. Unnatural amino acids (UAAs) offer the possibility to expand beyond the 20 naturally occurring amino acids in most species and install new and useful chemical functions. Here, we review the literature about advances in UAA incorporation technology from chemoenzymatic aminoacylation of modified tRNAs to

Indexed as

Genetic CodeAmino AcidsBiochemistryHistory, 20th CenturyHistory, 21st CenturyMutagenesis, Site-DirectedRNA, TransferAmino AcidsRNA, Transfer

Identifiers

PMID34196546
PMCPMC8613843
OpenAlexW3174881694

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