“…Nitrophenylglycine was prepared according to published procedures (Davis et al, 1973;Muralidharan and Nerbonne, 1995;England et al, 1997). The amino group was protected with an I 2(aq) labile 4-PO group (Madsen et al, 1995;England et al, 1997), the carboxylic acid was activated as the cyanomethyl ester, and the activated compound was coupled to the dinucleotide dCA, which was then enzymatically ligated to 74-mer THG73 tRNA CUA as detailed previously (Nowak et al, 1995(Nowak et al, , 1998.…”