Team:MoWestern Davidson/tRNA

Suppressor tRNA Sequence and Design:

Our team would like to thank Dr. J. Christopher Anderson for his personal assistance in with regard to building our tRNAs. From the papers by Magliery, Anderson, and Shultz we obtained the sequence for the tRNAs that they discovered. All of the tRNAs used are based on the same Serine tRNA. The only difference is that the anti codon loop has 9nt instead of 7nt, and the anti codon is different. To assemble the tRNAs, our team decided to use single stranded overlapping oligos. Since the tRNAs are all the same except for the anti codon loop, oligo assemble made the most sense since we can reuse several of the oligos to make the different tRNAs.

The underlined portion of the oligos are the anti codon loop and its complementary bases on the opposite strand. The different colors represent the different oligo nucleotides. The top strand has 5' and 3' overhangs which are the sticky ends for EcoRI and PstI respectivly. Our team annealed the oligos together and then cloned them into a pSB1A2 vector.