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1: J Am Chem Soc. 2008 Mar 26;130(12):4028-33. Epub 2008 Mar 6.
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Genetically encoding protein oxidative damage.

Neumann H, Hazen JL, Weinstein J, Mehl RA, Chin JW.

Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QH, United Kingdom.

Posttranslational modification of tyrosine residues in proteins, to produce 3-nitrotyrosine (3-NT), is associated with over 50 disease states including transplant rejection, lung infection, central nervous system and ocular inflammation shock, cancer, and neurological disorders (for example, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and stroke). The levels of 3-NT increase in aging tissue, and levels of 3-NT in proteins are a predictor of disease risk. Here we report the evolution and characterization of an aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase/tRNA pair for the cotranslational, site-specific incorporation of 3-NT into proteins at genetically encoded sites. To demonstrate the utility of our approach for studying the effect on protein function of nitration on sites defined in vivo, we prepared manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) that is homogeneously nitrated at a site known to be modified in disease-related inflammatory responses, and we measured the effect of this defined modification on protein function.

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PMID: 18321101 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]