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Esterification of an Unnatural Amino Acid Structurally Deviating from Canonical Amino Acids Promotes Its Uptake and Incorporation into Proteins in Mammalian Cells
Takimoto, Jeffrey K.,Xiang, Zheng,Kang, Ji-Yong,Wang, Lei
, p. 2268 - 2272 (2010)
It's a cover up: Unnatural amino acids (UAAs) with noncanonical side chains can be efficiently transported into mammalian cells when the carboxyl group of the UAA is masked with selected ester groups. This greatly increases the UAA's uptake rate and intra
