Synthetic biology challenges long-held hypotheses in translation, codon bias and transcription

The anti-Shine–Dalgarno sequence drives translational pausing and codon choice in bacteria

(2012) Gene-Wei Li et al.   NATURE

Multiplexed in Vivo His-Tagging of Enzyme Pathways for in Vitro Single-Pot Multienzyme Catalysis

(2012) Harris H. Wang et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Multigene expression in vivo: Supremacy of large versus small terminators for T7 RNA polymerase

(2011) Liping Du et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING

Natural Product-Like Macrocyclic N-Methyl-Peptide Inhibitors against a Ubiquitin Ligase Uncovered from a Ribosome-Expressed De Novo Library

(2011) Yusuke Yamagishi et al.   CHEMISTRY & BIOLOGY

Systematic Chromosomal Deletion of Bacterial Ribosomal Protein Genes

(2011) Shinichiro Shoji et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Tuning the affinity of aminoacyl-tRNA to elongation factor Tu for optimal decoding

(2011) J. M. Schrader et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genetic code translation displays a linear trade-off between efficiency and accuracy of tRNA selection

(2011) M. Johansson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Divergent stalling sequences sense and control cellular physiology

(2010) Koreaki Ito et al.   BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

Chemical Models of Peptide Formation in Translation

(2010) R. Edward Watts et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Update on designing and building minimal cells

(2010) Michael C Jewett et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

The Influence of Anticodon-Codon Interactions and Modified Bases on Codon Usage Bias in Bacteria

(2010) W. Ran et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Synonymous but not the same: the causes and consequences of codon bias

(2010) Joshua B. Plotkin et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

pH-sensitivity of the ribosomal peptidyl transfer reaction dependent on the identity of the A-site aminoacyl-tRNA

(2010) M. Johansson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Engineering multigene expression in vitro and in vivo with small terminators for T7 RNA polymerase

(2009) Liping Du et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING

Changeability of individual domains of an aminoacyl-tRNA in polymerization by the ribosome

(2009) Rong Gao et al.   FEBS LETTERS

The origin of the biologically coded amino acids

(2009) H. James Cleaves II   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Low modularity of aminoacyl-tRNA substrates in polymerization by the ribosome

(2009) Anthony C. Forster   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Design Parameters to Control Synthetic Gene Expression in Escherichia coli

(2009) Mark Welch et al.   PLoS One

Coding-Sequence Determinants of Gene Expression in Escherichia coli

(2009) G. Kudla et al.   SCIENCE

Mistranslation-Induced Protein Misfolding as a Dominant Constraint on Coding-Sequence Evolution

(2008) D. Allan Drummond et al.   CELL

Messenger RNA-Programmed Incorporation of Multiple N-Methyl-Amino Acids into Linear and Cyclic Peptides

(2008) Takashi Kawakami et al.   CHEMISTRY & BIOLOGY

Ribosomal Synthesis of Polypeptoids and Peptoid−Peptide Hybrids

(2008) Takashi Kawakami et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Different aa-tRNAs Are Selected Uniformly on the Ribosome

(2008) Sarah Ledoux et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

The Kinetics of Ribosomal Peptidyl Transfer Revisited

(2008) Magnus Johansson et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Slow peptide bond formation by proline and other N-alkylamino acids in translation

(2008) M. Y. Pavlov et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Virus Attenuation by Genome-Scale Changes in Codon Pair Bias

(2008) J. R. Coleman et al.   SCIENCE