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  1. A cysteinyl-tRNA synthetase variant confers resistance against selenite toxicity and decreases selenocysteine misincorporation

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, July 2019, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Oscar Vargas

  2. Plasticity and Constraints of tRNA Aminoacylation Define Directed Evolution of Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, May 2019, MDPI AG

    Oscar Vargas

  3. Recoding of the selenocysteine UGA codon by cysteine in the presence of a non-canonical tRNACys and elongation factor SelB

    Article • RNA Biology, June 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Oscar Vargas

  4. Effects of Heterologous tRNA Modifications on the Production of Proteins Containing Noncanonical Amino Acids

    Article • Bioengineering, February 2018, MDPI AG

    Oscar Vargas

  5. Engineering posttranslational proofreading to discriminate nonstandard amino acids

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, January 2018, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Oscar Vargas

  6. Double mimicry evades tRNA synthetase editing by toxic vegetable-sourced non-proteinogenic amino acid

    Article • Nature Communications, December 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oscar Vargas

  7. Correction for Danhart et al., Conformational and chemical selection by a trans -acting editing domain

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 2017, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Oscar Vargas

  8. A genomically modified Escherichia coli strain carrying an orthogonal E. coli histidyl-tRNA synthetase•tRNA His pair

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects, November 2017, Elsevier

    Oscar Vargas

  9. The central role of tRNA in genetic code expansion

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects, November 2017, Elsevier

    Oscar Vargas

  10. Transfer RNAs with novel cloverleaf structures

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, October 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Oscar Vargas, Dr Nikos C Kyrpides

  11. Emergent rules for codon choice elucidated by editing rare arginine codons in Escherichia coli

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 2016, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Oscar Vargas

  12. Homologous trans -editing factors with broad tRNA specificity prevent mistranslation caused by serine/threonine misactivation

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 2015, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Oscar Vargas

  13. Ancestral AlaX Editing Enzymes for Control of Genetic Code Fidelity Are Not tRNA-specific

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, February 2015, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Oscar Vargas

  14. Wobble puts RNA on target

    Article • Nature, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oscar Vargas

  15. Distinct tRNA recognition strategies used by a homologous family of editing domains prevent mistranslation

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, December 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Oscar Vargas

  16. Exclusive Use oftrans-Editing Domains Prevents Proline Mistranslation

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, April 2013, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Oscar Vargas