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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Feb 22.
Published in final edited form as: Croat Chem Acta. 2016 Jun 14;89(2):163–174. doi: 10.5562/cca2825

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Schematic representation of stop codon suppression strategy. PylRS aminoacylates an orthogonal suppressor tRNA (anticodon CUA) with a non-cognate amino acid (ncAA). NcAA-tRNAPylCUA is delivered to the ribosome by the host elongation factor EF-Tu. At the ribosome, the ncAA-tRNAPylCUA decodes an internal stop codon (UAG) and the ncAA becomes incorporated in the protein of interest.