Click triazole linkage is fully biocompatible in E. coli
Aug 17th 2012, 14:36
A paper published this week in Nucleic Acids Res., in collaboration with Ali Tavassoli, demonstrates the full biocompatibility of a click DNA-backbone linker in a non-essential gene (the mCherry gene in E. coli). The results hint at the possibility of a fully synthetic approach to gene synthesis.