%0 Journal Article
%T Gold nanoparticles combined with highly expressed amber suppressor tRNA: a future antibacterial agent
%A Xiaoda Song
%A Jingjing Sun
%A Hong Tian
%A Xiangdong Gao
%J Iranian Journal of Medical Hypotheses & Ideas
%D 2010
%I Tehran University of Medical Sciences
%X "nAmber suppressor tRNA is a mutant allele coding for a tRNA, whose anticodon is altered in such a way that the suppressor tRNA inserts an amino acid at an amber codon in translation which leads to suppressing (preventing) termination. And some Amber suppressor tRNA strains were found. We propose that gold nanoparticles combined with highly expressed amber suppressor tRNA which can be uptake by cells and recognized by AARS (aminoacyl tRNA synthetase) will lead to the formation of C-terminally extended proteins. These proteins probably will not work properly, leading bacteria's death. Because of the difference of tRNA between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, even between different bacteria species, this amber suppressor tRNA is orthogonal for other species and cannot be recognized by AARS, therefore has no toxicity to other species. May it be an excellent antibacterial agent in the future? In this article we provide a screening method for the highly expressed amber suppressor tRNA using randomly bases mutation, radioactive selection, activity test in vivo, and finally linkage of the amber suppressor tRNA to gold nanoparticles.
%K Amber suppressor tRNA
%K Antibacterial
%K Gold nanoparticles
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