Near-cognate suppression of amber, opal and quadruplet codons competes with aminoacyl-tRNAᴾʸˡ for genetic code expansion
2012
O’Donoghue, Patrick | Prat, Laure | Heinemann, Ilka U. | Ling, Jiqiang | Odoi, Keturah | Liu, Wenshe R. | Söll, Dieter
Over 300 amino acids are found in proteins in nature, yet typically only 20 are genetically encoded. Reassigning stop codons and use of quadruplet codons emerged as the main avenues for genetically encoding non-canonical amino acids (NCAAs). Canonical aminoacyl-tRNAs with near-cognate anticodons also read these codons to some extent. This background suppression leads to ‘statistical protein’ that contains some natural amino acid(s) at a site intended for NCAA. We characterize near-cognate suppression of amber, opal and a quadruplet codon in common Escherichia coli laboratory strains and find that the PylRS/tRNAᴾʸˡ orthogonal pair cannot completely outcompete contamination by natural amino acids.
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