PUBLICATION

Heritable expansion of the genetic code in mouse and zebrafish

Authors
Chen, Y., Ma, J., Lu, W., Tian, M., Thauvin, M., Yuan, C., Volovitch, M., Wang, Q., Holst, J., Liu, M., Vriz, S., Ye, S., Wang, L., Li, D.
ID
ZDB-PUB-161211-6
Date
2017
Source
Cell Research   27(2): 294-297 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Vriz, Sophie
Keywords
none
MeSH Terms
  • Animals
  • Animals, Genetically Modified
  • Genetic Code*
  • Inheritance Patterns/genetics*
  • Mice, Transgenic
  • Zebrafish/genetics*
PubMed
27934867 Full text @ Cell Res.
Abstract

The genetic code can be expanded to encode unnatural amino acids (Uaas) by introducing an orthogonal tRNA/aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase (aaRS) pair to decode a stop codon. Initially developed in Escherichia coli1, this strategy has been proven generally applicable in eukaryotic cells2 and in generating transgenic invertebrates capable of Uaa incorporation, including Caenorhabditis elegans3 and Drosophila melanogaster4.

Genes / Markers
Figures
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Antibodies
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping