Escherichia coli with a 57-codon genetic code
Wesley E. Robertson, Fabian B. H. Rehm, Martin Spinck, Raffael L. Schumann, Rongzhen Tian, Wei Liu, Yangqi Gu, Askar A. Kleefeldt, Cicely F. Day, Kim C. Liu, Yonka Christova, Jérôme F. Zürcher, Franz Leonard Böge, Jakob Birnbaum, Linda van Bijsterveldt, Jason W. Chin
This paper describes the creation of a synthetic Escherichia coli strain with a 57-codon genetic code by recoding 105 codons in a 4 Mb synthetic genome.
Science · Jul 31, 2025Peer-reviewedSynthetic Biology