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ArticleNature communications2021

Designing efficient genetic code expansion in Bacillus subtilis to gain biological insights.

Devon A Stork, Georgia R Squyres, Erkin Kuru, Katarzyna A Gromek, Jonathan Rittichier, Aditya Jog, Briana M Burton, George M Church, Ethan C Garner, Aditya M Kunjapur

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Article in Nature communications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Devon A StorkDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Georgia R SquyresDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8717-2897
Erkin KuruDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Katarzyna A GromekDepartment of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Jonathan RittichierDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Aditya JogDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Briana M BurtonDepartment of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6444-8213
George M ChurchDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. gchurch@genetics.med.harvard.edu.
Ethan C GarnerDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. egarner@g.harvard.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0141-3555
Aditya M KunjapurDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. kunjapur@udel.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6869-9530
Harvard University · USUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison · US

Funding

Membrane-associated DNA transport machines in Bacillus subtilisR01GM121865 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI BURTON, BRIANA M. · 2017 to 2021
$1.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM121865
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacillus subtilis is a model gram-positive bacterium, commonly used to explore questions across bacterial cell biology and for industrial uses. To enable greater understanding and control of proteins in B. subtilis, here we report broad and efficient genetic code expansion in B. subtilis by incorporating 20 distinct non-standard amino acids within proteins using 3 different families of genetic code expansion systems and two choices of codons. We use these systems to achieve click-labelling, photo-crosslinking, and translational titration. These tools allow us to demonstrate differences between E. coli and B. subtilis stop codon suppression, validate a predicted protein-protein binding interface, and begin to interrogate properties underlying bacterial cytokinesis by precisely modulating cell division dynamics in vivo. We expect that the establishment of this simple and easily accessible chemical biology system in B. subtilis will help uncover an abundance of biological insights and aid genetic code expansion in other organisms.

Indexed as

Gene Expression Regulation, BacterialGenetic CodeAmino AcidsAmino Acyl-tRNA SynthetasesBacillus subtilisBacterial ProteinsCodonCytokinesisEscherichia coliGenome, BacterialProtein BindingProtein BiosynthesisProtein Interaction MappingRNA, TransferAmino AcidsAmino Acyl-tRNA SynthetasesBacterial ProteinsCodonRNA, Transfer

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PMID34521822
PMCPMC8440579
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