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Nonsense suppressors of Saccharomyces cerevisiae can be generated by mutation of the tyrosine tRNA anticodon

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The yeast amber suppressor, SUP5-a, was previously shown to cause the insertion of tyrosine at the sites of UAG nonsense codons. Nucleotide sequencing established that this SUP5-a suppressor specifies a mutant tyrosine transfer RNA (tRNA) which has the anticodon CΨA instead of the normal GΨA, an alteration identical to that found in the tyrosine-inserting amber suppressor from Escherichia coli.

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Piper, P., Wasserstein, M., Engbaek, F. et al. Nonsense suppressors of Saccharomyces cerevisiae can be generated by mutation of the tyrosine tRNA anticodon. Nature 262, 757–761 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/262757a0

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