Reprogramming the genetic code

D de la Torre, JW Chin - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
The encoded biosynthesis of proteins provides the ultimate paradigm for high-fidelity
synthesis of long polymers of defined sequence and composition, but it is limited to …

Cracking the code: reprogramming the genetic script in prokaryotes and eukaryotes to harness the power of noncanonical amino acids

C Jann, S Giofré, R Bhattacharjee, EA Lemke - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Over 500 natural and synthetic amino acids have been genetically encoded in the last two
decades. Incorporating these noncanonical amino acids into proteins enables many …

A semi-synthetic organism with an expanded genetic alphabet

DA Malyshev, K Dhami, T Lavergne, T Chen, N Dai… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Organisms are defined by the information encoded in their genomes, and since the origin of
life this information has been encoded using a two-base-pair genetic alphabet (A–T and G …

Genetic alphabet expansion technology by creating unnatural base pairs

M Kimoto, I Hirao - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent advancements in the creation of artificial extra base pairs (unnatural base pairs,
UBPs) are opening the door to a new research area, xenobiology, and genetic alphabet …

A semisynthetic organism engineered for the stable expansion of the genetic alphabet

Y Zhang, BM Lamb, AW Feldman… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
All natural organisms store genetic information in a four-letter, two-base-pair genetic
alphabet. The expansion of the genetic alphabet with two synthetic unnatural nucleotides …

C-Nucleosides: Synthetic Strategies and Biological Applications

M Hocek - Chemical reviews, 2009 - ACS Publications
While natural and synthetic N-nucleosides are vulnerable to enzymatic and acid-catalyzed
hydrolysis of the nucleosidic bond, their C-analogues are much more stable. Several C …

The expanded genetic alphabet

DA Malyshev, FE Romesberg - … Chemie International Edition, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
All biological information, since the last common ancestor of all life on Earth, has been
encoded by a genetic alphabet consisting of only four nucleotides that form two base pairs …

New codons for efficient production of unnatural proteins in a semisynthetic organism

EC Fischer, K Hashimoto, Y Zhang… - Nature Chemical …, 2020 - nature.com
Natural organisms use a four-letter genetic alphabet that makes available 64 triplet codons,
of which 61 are sense codons used to encode proteins with the 20 canonical amino acids …

Genetic code expansion: inception, development, commercialization

M Manandhar, E Chun… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Virtually all natural proteins are built from only 20 amino acids, and while this makes
possible all the functions they perform, the ability to encode other amino acids selected for …

Natural-like replication of an unnatural base pair for the expansion of the genetic alphabet and biotechnology applications

L Li, M Degardin, T Lavergne… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We synthesized a panel of unnatural base pairs whose pairing depends on hydrophobic
and packing forces and identify d TPT3-d NaM, which is PCR amplified with a natural base …