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Nucleic Acids Research, 2002, Vol. 30, No. 23 e128
© 2002 Oxford University Press

Monitoring mis-acylated tRNA suppression efficiency in mammalian cells via EGFP fluorescence recovery

Erwin Ilegems, Horst M. Pick and Horst Vogel*

Institute of Biomolecular Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +41 216933155; Fax: +41 216936190; Email: horst.vogel{at}epfl.ch

A reporter assay was developed to detect and quantify nonsense codon suppression by chemically aminoacylated tRNAs in mammalian cells. It is based on the cellular expression of the enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) as a reporter for the site-specific amino acid incorporation in its sequence using an orthogonal suppressor tRNA derived from Escherichia coli. Suppression of an engineered amber codon at position 64 in the EGFP run-off transcript could be achieved by the incorporation of a leucine via an in vitro aminoacylated suppressor tRNA. Microinjection of defined amounts of mutagenized EGFP mRNA and suppressor tRNA into individual cells allowed us to accurately determine suppression efficiencies by measuring the EGFP fluorescence intensity in individual cells using laser-scanning confocal microscopy. Control experiments showed the absence of natural suppression or aminoacylation of the synthetic tRNA by endogenous aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases. This reporter assay opens the way for the optimization of essential experimental parameters for expanding the scope of the suppressor tRNA technology to different cell types.


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