Preface.
1 Introduction.
1.1 Classical Approaches to Protein Modification.
1.2 Peptide Synthesis, Semisynthesis and Chemistry of Total Protein Synthesis.
1.3 Chemoselective Ligations Combined with Biochemical Methods.
1.4 Methods and Approaches of Classical Protein Engineering.
1.5 Genetically Encoded Protein Modifications – Reprogramming Protein Translation.
1.6 Basic Definitions and Taxonomy.
2 A Brief History of an Expanded Amino Acid Repertoire.
2.1 The ‘‘Golden Years’’ of Molecular Biology and Triplet Code Elucidation.
2.2 Early Experiments on the Incorporation of Amino Acid Analogs in Proteins.
2.3 Test Tube (Cell-free) Synthesis of Proteins and Early Incorporation Experiments.
2.4 Noncanonical Amino Acids as Tools for Studying Cell Metabolism, Physiology, Protein Processing and Turnover.
2.5 Problem of Proofs and Formal Criteria for Noncanonical Amino Acid Incorporation.
2.6 Recent Renaissance – Genetic Code Engineering.
3 Basic Features of the Cellular Translation Apparatus.
3.1 Natural Laws, Genetic Information and the ‘‘Central Dogma’’ of Molecular Biology.
3.2 Cellular Investments in Ribosome-mediated Protein Synthesis.
3.3 Molecular Architecture of AARS.
3.4 Structure and Function of the tRNA Molecule.
3.5 Aminoacylation Reaction.
3.6 AARS:tRNA Interactions – Identity Sets.
3.7 Translational Proofreading.
3.8 Ribosomal Decoding – A Brief Overview.
3.9 Codon Bias and the Fidelity of Protein Synthesis.
3.10 Preprogrammed Context-dependent Recoding: fMet, Sec, Pyl, etc.
3.11 Beyond Basic Coding – Posttranslational Modifications.
4 Amino Acids and Codons – Code Organization and Protein Structure.
4.1 Basic Features and Adaptive Nature of the Universal Genetic Code.
4.2 Metabolism and Intracellular Uptake of Canonical Amino Acids.
4.3 Physicochemical Properties of Canonical Amino Acids.
4.4 Reasons for the Occurrence of Only 20 Amino Acids in the Genetic Code.
4.5 What Properties of Amino Acids are Best Preserved by the Genetic Code?
4.6 Evolutionary Legacy: Dual Nature of Conserved Code and Finite Number of Protein Folds.
4.7 Natural Variations in Assignment of Codons of the Universal Genetic Code.
4.8 Codon Reassignment Concepts Possibly Relevant to Code Engineering.
5 Reprograming the Cellular Translation Machinery.
5.1 Enzyme Specificity of Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases (AARS) and Code Interpretation.
5.2 Reassigning Coding and Noncoding Units.
5.3 In Vitro Chemical and Enzymatic tRNA Aminoacylation.
5.4 Novel Codon–Anticodon Base Pairs.
5.5 Stop Codon Takeover.
5.6 In Vivo Nonsense Suppression-based Methods.
5.7 Outlook and Visions.
6 Implications and Insights: From Reprogrammed Translation and Code Evolution to Artificial Life.
6.1 Code Engineering and Synthetic Biology.
6.2 Novel Features of Protein Translation that have Emerged from Research in Code Engineering.
6.3 The Amino Acid Repertoire and its Evolution.
6.4 Artificial Genetic Systems and Code Engineering.
7 Some Practical Potentials of Reprogrammed Cellular Translation.
7.1 Practical Choice of Methods and Some Controversies in the Field.
7.2 The Plasticity of the Translation Machinery, Amino Acid Generic Types and Protein Structure.
7.3 DNA Nucleotide Analogs: From Sequencing to Expanded Code and Therapy.
7.4 Noncanonical Amino Acids in Material Science.
7.5 Isomorphous Replacement and Atomic Mutations in Structural Biology and Biophysics.
7.6 Translationally Active Amino-Trp Analogs: Novel Spectral Windows and Protein Sensors.
7.7 Fluorinated Amino Acids in Protein Engineering and Design.
7.8 Protein Processing, Bioorthogonality and Protein Surface Diversifications.
7.9 Pharmacologically Active Amino Acids.
Epilogue.
Index.
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