Dear All,
Dose anyone work with non-natural amino acids?
Guy

They are also called un-natural amino acids, anyone?

No, but I recently attended a seminar presented by a woman from Cambridge who has done some intriguing work with them. Are you looking for a resource or did you just want to know if anyone actually uses them? Send me a PM if you want her name...

I am very interested to know more about them from someone who works with them.
I read some papers and it seems that it is not just streight forword. I will PM you or it would be better if you could put a pub med link to one of her papers so evrybody else that is interested can learn from it.
Thank you
Guy

You can PM me if you'd like Guy

I work in a lab that specializes in UAA incorporation in ion channels and we collaborate with Sarah Lummis in Cambridge

here are some useful links for you of important people in the field

Sarah Lummis: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/lummis.html

Henry Lester: http://www.its.caltech.edu/~halweb/index.html

Dennis Douherty: http://www.its.caltech.edu/~dadgrp/

Peter Schultz : http://schultz.scripps.edu/

Here are some papers

J Nutr. 2007 Jun;137(6):1504S-8S. Cation-{pi} Interactions Involving Aromatic Amino Acids. PMID: 17513416 [PubMed - in process]

http://orphanin.caltech.edu/~lester/world/Pubs/2007/Padgett-JNS-2007.pdf

http://orphanin.caltech.edu/~lester/world/Pubs/2006/Rodriguez-PNAS-2006.pdf

http://orphanin.caltech.edu/~lester/world/Pubs/2006/Cashin-Biochem-2006.pdf

http://orphanin.caltech.edu/~lester/world/Pubs/2006/McMenimen-ACSChemBiol-2006.pdf

http://orphanin.caltech.edu/~lester/world/Pubs/2006/Ahern-JGenPhysiol-2006.pdf

http://orphanin.caltech.edu/~lester/world/Pubs/2005/Xiu-JBC-2005.pdf

http://orphanin.caltech.edu/~lester/world/Pubs/2005/Lummis-Nature-2005.pdf

http://orphanin.caltech.edu/~lester/world/Pubs/2005/Lummis-ChemBiol-2005.pdf

http://orphanin.caltech.edu/~lester/world/Pubs/2005/Cashin-JACS-2005.pdf

http://orphanin.caltech.edu/~lester/world/Pubs/2004/Beene-JNeuroSci-2004.pdf

http://orphanin.caltech.edu/~lester/world/Pubs/2003/Petersson-MethEnz(2003)360,258.pdf

http://orphanin.caltech.edu/~lester/world/Pubs/2003/Mu%20JACS125,6851-MOD1-(2003).pdf

http://orphanin.caltech.edu/~lester/world/Pubs/2003/Monahan%20Chem&Biol-2003.pdf

http://orphanin.caltech.edu/~lester/world/Pubs/2003/Been-COpinionNeuro-2003.pdf

http://orphanin.caltech.edu/~lester/world/Pubs/2002/Petersson-RNA-2002.pdf

http://orphanin.caltech.edu/~lester/world/Pubs/2002/Petersson-JACS-2002+.pdf

http://orphanin.caltech.edu/~lester/world/Pubs/2002/Beene-Biochem-2002.pdf


Genetic incorporation of unnatural amino acids into proteins in mammalian cells. Liu W, Brock A, Chen S, Chen S, Schultz PG. PMID: 17322890

For other Peter Schultz papers search Schultz PG in pubmed.

Ha - Sarah Lummis was the presenter here at the University of Sydney, I just wasn't sure about posting her contact info.

Science is such a small world after all...

I don't think there is a problem posting peoples contact info if they are well published in a field and have their own lab web site for the world to see anyway.

Thats true,
You can always put a link to one of paperes.
Guy