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ReviewChemical reviews2025

Genetic Code Expansion: Recent Developments and Emerging Applications.

Yujia Huang, Pan Zhang, Haoyu Wang, Yan Chen, Tao Liu, Xiaozhou Luo

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Review in Chemical reviews, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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32 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Yujia HuangState Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemical Biology Center, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China.
Pan ZhangShenzhen Key Laboratory for the Intelligent Microbial Manufacturing of Medicines, Key Laboratory of Quantitative Synthetic Biology, Center for Synthetic Biochemistry, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, P.R. China.
Haoyu WangState Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemical Biology Center, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China.ORCID 0000-0001-9721-2891
Yan ChenShenzhen Key Laboratory for the Intelligent Microbial Manufacturing of Medicines, Key Laboratory of Quantitative Synthetic Biology, Center for Synthetic Biochemistry, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, P.R. China.
Tao LiuState Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemical Biology Center, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China.ORCID 0000-0001-5347-5892
Xiaozhou LuoShenzhen Key Laboratory for the Intelligent Microbial Manufacturing of Medicines, Key Laboratory of Quantitative Synthetic Biology, Center for Synthetic Biochemistry, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, P.R. China.ORCID 0000-0001-9808-6890

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The concept of genetic code expansion (GCE) has revolutionized the field of chemical and synthetic biology, enabling the site-specific incorporation of noncanonical amino acids (ncAAs) into proteins, thus opening new avenues in research and applications across biology and medicine. In this review, we cover the principles of GCE, including the optimization of the aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase (aaRS)/tRNA system and the advancements in translation system engineering. Notable developments include the refinement of aaRS/tRNA pairs, enhancements in screening methods, and the biosynthesis of noncanonical amino acids. The applications of GCE technology span from synthetic biology, where it facilitates gene expression regulation and protein engineering, to medicine, with promising approaches in drug development, vaccine production, and gene editing. The review concludes with a perspective on the future of GCE, underscoring its potential to further expand the toolkit of biology and medicine. Through this comprehensive review, we aim to provide a detailed overview of the current state of GCE technology, its challenges, opportunities, and the frontier it represents in the expansion of the genetic code for novel biological research and therapeutic applications.

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Genetic CodeAmino AcidsAmino Acyl-tRNA SynthetasesAnimalsGene EditingHumansProtein EngineeringRNA, TransferSynthetic BiologyAmino AcidsAmino Acyl-tRNA SynthetasesRNA, Transfer

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PMID39737807
PMCPMC11758808

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