Site-specific incorporation of unnatural amino acids as probes for protein conformational changes

Abstract

Site-specific in vivo incorporation of unnatural amino acids provides powerful tools for the study of protein interaction and dynamics. Here, we provide a protocol for the incorporation of six such UAA probes into a GFP reporter system, expressed in Escherichia coli from both arabinose and lactose-inducible expression plasmids using an autoinduction media.