Nε-(tert-Butoxycarbonyl)-L-lysine (BocLys)

ncAA Structure (png, jpg, jpeg)
BocLys

ncAA Foundational Publication Support

Yanagisawa, Tatsuo, Ryohei Ishii, Ryuya Fukunaga, Takatsugu Kobayashi, Kensaku Sakamoto, and Shigeyuki Yokoyama. (2008) 2008. “Multistep Engineering Of Pyrrolysyl-Trna Synthetase To Genetically Encode N(Epsilon)-(O-Azidobenzyloxycarbonyl) Lysine For Site-Specific Protein Modification.”. Chemistry & Biology 15 (11): 1187-97. doi:10.1016/j.chembiol.2008.10.004.

ncAA Usage Publications

Greiss, Sebastian, and Jason W Chin. (2011) 2011. “Expanding The Genetic Code Of An Animal.”. Journal Of The American Chemical Society 133 (36): 14196-9. doi:10.1021/ja2054034.

ncAA Utility
Extra-­‐chromosomal array (low stability), biolistic bombardment. Scattered in different places in animal.
ncAA Source
Exogenous - Purchased
ncAA Availability
Can be purchased from https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/product/aldrich/359688

RS/tRNA Pair(s)


ncAA Synonyms
H-Lys(Boc)-OH
2418-95-3
N6-(tert-butoxycarbonyl)-L-lysine
Lys(Boc)
Nepsilon-Boc-L-lysine
ChEBI ID
233034