Construction of an Escherichia coli genome with fewer codons sets records
(2019)
Journal Article
Blount, B. A., & Ellis, T. (2019). Construction of an Escherichia coli genome with fewer codons sets records. Nature, 569(7757), 492-494. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-01584-x
© 2019, Nature. The biggest synthetic genome so far has been made, with a smaller set of amino-acid-encoding codons than usual — raising the prospect of encoding proteins that contain unnatural amino-acid residues.