The 22nd Amino Acid
- 24 May 2002
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 296 (5572), 1409-1410
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1073339
Abstract
In their Perspective, Atkins and Gesteland discuss the discovery of the 22nd amino acid, pyrrolysine, in Archaea ( Hao et al. , Srinivasan et al.).Keywords
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