Chapter title |
Genetic Encoding of Unnatural Amino Acids in C. elegans
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Chapter number | 24 |
Book title |
Noncanonical Amino Acids
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, January 2018
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-7574-7_24 |
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Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-7573-0, 978-1-4939-7574-7
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Authors |
Lloyd Davis, Sebastian Greiss |
Abstract |
Site-specific incorporation of unnatural amino acids (UAAs) has greatly expanded the toolkit available to study biological phenomena in single cells. However, to address questions involving complex cellular interactions such as development, ageing, and the functions of the nervous system it is often necessary to use multicellular model organisms. The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans was the first organism to have its genetic code expanded. Due to its small size, ease of cultivation, and excellent UAA incorporation efficiency, C. elegans makes an ideal model organism to apply UAAs as tools to investigate the functioning of multicellular systems.Here, we describe methods to generate transgenic C. elegans capable of UAA incorporation, as well as how to deliver unnatural amino acids and test incorporation. Furthermore, we describe methods to uncage photosensitive unnatural amino acid derivatives. |
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