Ingeniería de un organismo recodificado genéticamente con un codón de parada

Michael W Grome1,2, Michael T A Nguyen1,2, Daniel W Moonan2,3

  • 1Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.

Nature
|February 5, 2025
PubMed
Resumen

Los investigadores crearon Ochre, un organismo recodificado genéticamente (GRO), al comprimir las funciones de traducción en codones individuales. Esta bacteria de ingeniería utiliza UAA como su único codón de parada, allanando el camino para un código genético no degenerado de 64 codones.

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