Genetic encoding of unnatural amino acids for labeling proteins.
Genetic encoding of unnatural amino acids for labeling proteins.
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10.1007/978-1-4939-2272-7_15
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2015-01-01
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Chin, Jason W
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Lang, Kathrin;Davis, Lloyd;Chin, Jason W
The site-specific incorporation of bioorthogonal groups via genetic code expansion provides a powerful general strategy for site-specifically labeling proteins with any probe. Here we describe the genetic encoding of dienophile-bearing unnatural amino acids into proteins expressed in Escherichia coli and mammalian cells using the pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase/tRNACUA pair and its variants. We describe the rapid fluorogenic labeling of proteins containing these unnatural amino acids in vitro, in E. coli, and in live mammalian cells with tetrazine-fluorophore conjugates in a bioorthogonal Diels-Alder reaction with inverse electron demand. These approaches have been extended to site-specific protein labeling in animals, and we anticipate that they will have a broad impact on the labeling and imaging field.