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ArticleBiomolecules2025

Efficient Incorporation of DOPA into Proteins Free from Competition with Endogenous Translation Termination Machinery.

Youhui Yang, Yingchen Wang, Zhaoguan Wang, Hao Qi

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Article in Biomolecules, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Youhui YangSchool of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China.
Yingchen WangSchool of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China.
Zhaoguan WangSchool of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China.
Hao QiSchool of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2849-6226

Funding

the National Key R&D Program of China 2019YFA0904103
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

3,4-Dihydroxy-L-phenylalanine (DOPA) is a promising noncanonical amino acid (ncAA) that introduces novel catechol chemical features into proteins, expanding their functional potential. However, the most common approach to incorporating ncAAs into proteins relies on stop codon suppression, which is often limited by the competition of endogenous translational termination machinery. Here, we employed a special in vitro protein expression system that facilitates the efficiency of DOPA incorporation into proteins by removing essential Class I peptide release factors through targeted degradation. In the absence of both RF1 and RF2, we successfully demonstrated DOPA incorporation at all three stop codons (TAG, TAA, and TGA). By optimizing the concentration of engineered DOPA-specific aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase (DOPARS), DOPA, and DNA template, we achieved a synthesis yield of 2.24 µg of sfGFP with 100% DOPA incorporation in a 20 μL reaction system. DOPARS exhibited a dissociation constant (

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DihydroxyphenylalaninePeptide Chain Termination, TranslationalAmino Acyl-tRNA SynthetasesCodon, TerminatorEscherichia coliPeptide Termination FactorsProtein BiosynthesisProtein EngineeringAmino Acyl-tRNA SynthetasesCodon, TerminatorDihydroxyphenylalaninePeptide Termination Factors3,4-dihydroxy-L-phenylalanineaminoacyl-tRNA synthetasenoncanonical amino acidssfGFP

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PMID40149918
PMCPMC11939889

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