作者:Deborah M. Rothman、E. James Petersson、M. Eugenio Vázquez、Gabriel S. Brandt、Dennis A. Dougherty、Barbara Imperiali
DOI:10.1021/ja043875c
日期:2005.1.1
We present the chemical and biological synthesis of caged phosphoproteins using the in vitro nonsense codon suppression methodology. Specifically, phosphoamino acid analogues of serine, threonine, and tyrosine with a single photocleavable o-nitrophenylethyl caging group were synthesized as the amino acyl tRNA adducts for insertion into full-length proteins. For this purpose, a novel phosphitylating agent was developed. The successful incorporation of these bulky and charged amino acids into the alpha-subunit of the nicotinic acetyl choline receptor (nAChR) and the vasodilator-stimulated phosphoprotein (VASP) using an in vitro translation system is reported.