Invading the Genetic Code
- 20 April 2001
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 292 (5516) , 453-454
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1060637
Abstract
All organisms, regardless of where they live or what they do, have but 20 amino acids. This dogma may be about to change, according to Böck in a Perspective. He discusses new results ( Wang et al., Doring et al.) describing strategies for supplementing the amino acid repertoire of bacteria with unnatural amino acids, which could be applied to the engineering of completely new proteins.Keywords
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