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Title

Expanding the Zebrafish Genetic Code through Site-Specific Introduction of Azido-lysine, Bicyclononyne-lysine, and Diazirine-lysine

Authors
Syed, J., Palani, S., Clarke, S.T., Asad, Z., Bottrill, A.R., Jones, A.M.E., Sampath, K., Balasubramanian, M.K.
Source
Full text @ Int. J. Mol. Sci.

The site-specific incorporation of azido-lysine in the zebrafish embryos. (A) The Brightfield (left) or fluorescent (right) images of the zebrafish embryos injected with mRNA(s) for LifeAct-eGFP (top panel) or LifeAct-eGFP Y39* (codon for Y39 converted to stop codon UAG) with the orthogonal tRNAPyl CUA-mRNA aaRS for AzK/BCNK, with (middle panel) AzK but not without (bottom panel) AzK. Scale bar, 1 mm (B). The localization of LifeAct-eGFP or LifeAct-eGFP Y39AzK to cell–cell junctions and cortical speckles in the dechorionated embryos injected as described in (A). Scale bar represents 20 µm. (C) The mass-spectrometry identified AzK incorporation in LifeAct-eGFP Y39AzK. The lysates were prepared from ~1000 embryos injected with mRNA for LifeAct-eGFP Y39* with the orthogonal tRNAPyl-CUA -mRNA aaRS for AzK/BCNK with AzK. LifeAct-eGFP Y39AzK was immunoaffinity purified using GFP nanobodies and processed for mass spectrometry as described in the methods section. The MS/MS spectrum of precursor m/z = 791.3606 (M+2) corresponded to tryptic peptide FSVSGEGEGDATKGK with azido-lysine incorporated at the indicated position. The full y-ion fragment series is highlighted in blue. (D) An immunoprecipitation-Western blot from the zebrafish embryos injected with mRNA(s) for GST (left lane) or GST F52* (codon for F52 converted to stop codon UAG) with the orthogonal tRNAPyl-CUA -aaRS pair for AzK/BCNK, without (middle lane) or with (right lane) AzK. The immunoprecipitations and Western blots were performed with antibodies against GST.

The site-specific incorporation of bicylononyne-lysine and diazirine-lysine in the zebrafish embryos. (A) The Brightfield (left) or fluorescent (right) images of the zebrafish embryos injected with mRNA(s) for LifeAct-eGFP Y39* with the orthogonal tRNAPyl-CUA -mRNA aaRS for AzK/BCNK with (top panel) BCNK. Shown also are fields with multiple examples of each of the zebrafish embryos injected with mRNA(s) for LifeAct-eGFP Y39* with the orthogonal tRNAPyl-CUA -mRNA aaRS for AbK, with (middle panel) or without (bottom panel) AbK. (B) The localization of LifeAct-eGFP Y39BCNK (top panel) and LifeAct-eGFP Y39AbK to cell-cell junctions and cortical speckles in the dechorionized embryos injected as described in (A). (C) Shown in the top panel is an IP-Western blot from the zebrafish embryos injected with mRNA(s) for GST (left lane) or GFT F52* with the orthogonal tRNAPyl-CUA -aaRS pair for AzK/BCNK, without (middle lane) or with (right lane) BCNK. The bottom panel shows a similar experiment showing the incorporation of AbK into the zebrafish embryos using the appropriate amino-acid and the tRNAPyl-CUA –aaRS cocktail for AbK. The immunoprecipitations and Western blots were performed with antibodies against GST.

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