Non-canonical Amino Acid
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Residue-Specific Incorporation of Noncanonical Amino Acids in Auxotrophic Hosts: Quo Vadis?

by Keith Cowing

The residue-specific incorporation of noncanonical amino acids in auxotrophic hosts allows the global exchange of a canonical amino acid with its noncanonical analog.

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Earth Life’s Genetic Alphabet Has Been Expanded To Create Novel Proteins

by Keith Cowing

It’s a dogma taught in every introductory biology class: Proteins are composed of combinations of 20 different amino acids, arranged into diverse sequences like words. But researchers trying to engineer […]

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Light Enables The Generation Of Non-canonical Amino Acids

by Keith Cowing

UC Santa Barbara researchers are building out the repertoire of chemical reactions, using light. In a paper published in the journal Nature, chemistry professor Yang Yang and collaborators at the […]

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