Anthony Forster

Synthetic biology: A lab manual

Forster, Anthony C.; Bao, Letian; Liljeruhm, Josefine

World Scientific, 2025

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Fast peptide bond formation and release by the ribosomal large subunit

Bao, Letian; Forster, Anthony C.

Part of Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2025

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Translational impacts of enzymes that modify ribosomal RNA around the peptidyl transferase centre

Bao, Letian; Liljeruhm, Josefine; Blanco, Ruben Crespo; Brandis, Gerrit et al.

Part of RNA Biology, p. 31-41, 2024

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Rate-limiting hydrolysis in ribosomal release reactions revealed by ester activation

Bao, Letian; Karpenko, Victoriia V.; Forster, Anthony C.

Part of Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2022

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Plasticity and conditional essentiality of modification enzymes for domain V of Escherichia coli 23S ribosomal RNA

Liljeruhm, Josefine; Leppik, Margus; Bao, Letian; Truu, Triin et al.

Part of RNA, p. 796-807, 2022

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Fast peptide bond formation and release by the ribosomal large subunit

Bao, Letian; Forster, Anthony C.

Part of Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2025

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Translational impacts of enzymes that modify ribosomal RNA around the peptidyl transferase centre

Bao, Letian; Liljeruhm, Josefine; Blanco, Ruben Crespo; Brandis, Gerrit et al.

Part of RNA Biology, p. 31-41, 2024

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Rate-limiting hydrolysis in ribosomal release reactions revealed by ester activation

Bao, Letian; Karpenko, Victoriia V.; Forster, Anthony C.

Part of Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2022

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Plasticity and conditional essentiality of modification enzymes for domain V of Escherichia coli 23S ribosomal RNA

Liljeruhm, Josefine; Leppik, Margus; Bao, Letian; Truu, Triin et al.

Part of RNA, p. 796-807, 2022

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Revisiting the Extinction of the RNA World

Forster, Anthony C.

Part of Biochemistry, p. 749-751, 2022

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Tales of the unexpected in Sidney Altman's laboratory

Forster, Anthony C.

Part of RNA, p. 1406-1408, 2022

In vitro synthesis of 32 translation-factor proteins from a single template reveals impaired ribosomal processivity

Doerr, Anne; Foschepoth, David; Forster, Anthony C.; Danelon, Christophe

Part of Scientific Reports, 2021

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Overcoming chromoprotein limitations by engineering a red fluorescent protein

Bao, Letian; Menon, P. Navaneeth K.; Liljeruhm, Josefine; Forster, Anthony C.

Part of Analytical Biochemistry, 2020

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Rationally designed Spot 42 RNAs with an inhibition/toxicity profile advantageous for engineering E. coli

Vogel, Carolin; Gynnå, Arvid H.; Yuan, Jinwen; Bao, Letian et al.

Part of ENGINEERING REPORTS, 2020

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Kinetics of D-amino acid incorporation in translation

Liljeruhm, Josefine; Wang, Jinfan; Kwiatkowski, Marek; Sabari, Samudra et al.

Part of ACS Chemical Biology, p. 204-213, 2019

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Engineering a palette of eukaryotic chromoproteins for bacterial synthetic biology

Liljeruhm, Josefine; Funk, Saskia K.; Tietscher, Sandra; Edlund, Anders D. et al.

Part of Journal of Biological Engineering, 2018

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De novo design and synthesis of a 30-cistron translation-factor module

Shepherd, Tyson R; Du, Liping; Liljeruhm, Josefine; Samudyata, undefined et al.

Part of Nucleic Acids Research, p. 10895-10905, 2017

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Translational roles of the C75 2 ' OH in an in vitro tRNA transcript at the ribosomal A, P and E sites

Wang, Jinfan; Forster, Anthony C.

Part of Scientific Reports, 2017

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Kinetics of tRNA^Pyl-mediated amber suppression in E. coli translation reveals unexpected limiting steps and competing reactions: Kinetics of tRNA^Pyl-mediated amber suppression

Wang, Jinfan; Kwiatkowski, Marek; Forster, Anthony

Part of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, p. 1552-1559, 2016

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Ribosomal Peptide Syntheses from Activated Substrates Reveal Rate Limitation by an Unexpected Step at the Peptidyl Site

Wang, Jinfan; Kwiatkowski, Marek; Forster, Anthony C.

Part of Journal of the American Chemical Society, p. 15587-15595, 2016

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Kinetics of Ribosome-Catalyzed Polymerization Using Artificial Aminoacyl-tRNA Substrates Clarifies Inefficiencies and Improvements

Wang, Jinfan; Kwiatkowski, Marek; Forster, Anthony

Part of ACS Chemical Biology, p. 2187-2192, 2015

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Peptide Formation by N-Methyl Amino Acids in Translation Is Hastened by Higher pH and tRNA^Pro

Wang, Jinfan; Kwiatkowski, Marek; Pavlov, Michael Yu; Ehrenberg, Måns et al.

Part of ACS Chemical Biology, p. 1303-1311, 2014

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Facile Synthesis of N-Acyl-aminoacyl-pCpA for Preparation of Mischarged Fully Ribo tRNA

Kwiatkowski, Marek; Wang, Jinfan; Forster, Anthony C.

Part of Bioconjugate chemistry, p. 2086-2091, 2014

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A tRNA body with high affinity for EF-Tu hastens ribosomal incorporation of unnatural amino acids

Ieong, Ka-Weng; Pavlov, Michael Y.; Kwiatkowski, Marek; Ehrenberg, Måns et al.

Part of RNA, p. 632-643, 2014

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Differential Translation Tunes Uneven Production of Operon-Encoded Proteins

Quax, Tessa E. F.; Wolf, Yuri I.; Koehorst, Jasper J.; Wurtzel, Omri et al.

Part of Cell Reports, p. 938-944, 2013

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Structural and functional insights into the molecular mechanism of rRNA m6A methyltransferase RlmJ

Punekar, Avinash S; Liljeruhm, Josefine; Shepherd, Tyson R; Forster, Anthony C et al.

Part of Nucleic Acids Research, p. 9537-9548, 2013

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Crystal structure of RlmM, the 2'O-ribose methyltransferase for C2498 of Escherichia coli 23S rRNA

Punekar, Avinash S; Shepherd, Tyson R; Liljeruhm, Josefine; Forster, Anthony C et al.

Part of Nucleic Acids Research, p. 10507-20, 2012

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Multigene expression in vivo: Supremacy of large versus small terminators for T7 RNA polymerase

Du, Liping; Villarreal, Seth; Forster, Anthony C.

Part of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, p. 1043-1050, 2012

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Editorial: NextGen SynBio has arrived...

Forster, Anthony C.; Lee, Sang Yup

Part of Biotechnology Journal, p. 827-827, 2012

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Inefficient delivery but fast peptide bond formation of unnatural l -aminoacyl-tRNAs in translation

Ieong, Ka-Weng; Pavlov, Michael Y.; Kwiatkowski, Marek; Forster, Anthony C. et al.

Part of Journal of the American Chemical Society, p. 17955-17962, 2012

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Multiplexed in Vivo His-Tagging of Enzyme Pathways for in Vitro Single-Pot Multienzyme Catalysis

Wang, Harris H.; Huang, Po-Yi; Xu, George; Haas, Wilhelm et al.

Part of ACS Synthetic Biology, p. 43-52, 2012

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Ribosomal incorporation of unnatural amino acids: lessons and improvements from fast kinetics studies

Wang, Jinfan; Forster, Anthony C.

Part of Current opinion in chemical biology, p. 180-187, 2018

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Synthetic biology challenges long-held hypotheses in translation, codon bias and transcription

Forster, Anthony C.

Part of Biotechnology Journal, p. 835-845, 2012

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Update on pure translation display with unnatural amino acid incorporation

Watts, R. Edward; Forster, Anthony C.

Part of Methods in Molecular Biology, p. 349-365, 2012

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Synthetic biology: A lab manual

Forster, Anthony C.; Bao, Letian; Liljeruhm, Josefine

World Scientific, 2025

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Synthetic Biology: A Lab Manual

Liljeruhm, Josefine; Gullberg, Erik; Forster, Anthony C.

World Scientific, 2014

Fast peptide bond formation and releaseby the ribosomal large subunit

Bao, Letian; Forster, Anthony C.