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BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 57, Issue 4, Pages 441-445Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.7b00952
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- Department of Chemistry of Boston College
- National Institutes of Health Grant [R01GM124319]
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Engineered aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase/tRNA pairs that enable site-specific incorporation of noncanonical amino acids (ncAAs) into proteins in living cells have emerged as powerful tools in chemical biology. The Escherichia coli-derived leucyl-tRNA synthetase (EcLeuRS)/tRNA pair is a promising candidate for ncAA mutagenesis in mammalian cells, but it has been engineered to charge only a limited set of ncAAs so far. Here we show that two highly polyspecific EcLeuRS mutants can efficiently charge a large array of useful ncAAs into proteins expressed in mammalian cells, while discriminating against the 20 canonical amino acids. When combined with an opal-suppressing pyrrolysyl pair, these EcLeuRS variants further enabled site-specific incorporation of different combinations of two distinct ncAAs into proteins expressed in mammalian cells.
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