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Title: Genetically encoded fluorescent coumarin amino acids

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1055725

The invention relates to orthogonal pairs of tRNAs and aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases that can incorporate the coumarin unnatural amino acid L-(7-hydroxycoumarin-4-yl)ethylglycine into proteins produced in eubacterial host cells such as E. coli. The invention provides, for example but not limited to, novel orthogonal synthetases, methods for identifying and making the novel synthetases, methods for producing proteins containing the unnatural amino acid L-(7-hydroxycoumarin-4-yl)ethylglycine and related translation systems.

Research Organization:
The Scripps Research Inst., La Jolla, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
FG02-03ER46051
Assignee:
The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, CA)
Patent Number(s):
8,192,952
Application Number:
12/227,383
OSTI ID:
1055725
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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