Cell-free gene expression: methods and applications

AC Hunt, BJ Rasor, K Seki, HM Ekas, KF Warfel… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Cell-free gene expression (CFE) systems empower synthetic biologists to build biological
molecules and processes outside of living intact cells. The foundational principle is that …

Cell free bacteriophage synthesis from engineered strains improves yield

R Brooks, L Morici, N Sandoval - ACS Synthetic Biology, 2023 - ACS Publications
Phage therapy to treat life-threatening drug-resistant infections has been hampered by
technical challenges in phage production. Cell-free bacteriophage synthesis (CFBS) can …

Profiling expression strategies for a type III polyketide synthase in a lysate-based, cell-free system

TT Sword, JLN Dinglasan, GSK Abbas, JW Barker… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Some of the most metabolically diverse species of bacteria (eg, Actinobacteria) have higher
GC content in their DNA, differ substantially in codon usage, and have distinct protein folding …

Development of Solid-State Storage for Cell-Free Expression Systems

AW Brookwell, JL Gonzalez, AW Martinez… - ACS Synthetic …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The fragility of biological systems during storage, transport, and utilization necessitates
reliable cold-chain infrastructure and limits the potential of biotechnological applications. In …

Adeno-Associated Virus 5 Protein Particles Produced by E. coli Cell-Free Protein Synthesis

D Deuker, E Asilonu, DG Bracewell… - ACS Synthetic …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Recombinant adeno-associated viruses (rAAVs) have emerged as important tools for gene
therapy and, more recently, vaccine development. Nonetheless, manufacturing can be costly …

Optimization and compartmentalization of a cell-free mixture of DNA amplification and protein translation

F Han, B Xu, N Lu, A Caliari, H Lu, Y Xia… - Applied Microbiology …, 2022 - Springer
Recent studies have shown that the reconstituted cell-free DNA replisome and in vitro
transcription and translation systems from Escherichia coli are highly important in applied …

Amino acid balancing for the prediction and evaluation of protein concentrations in cell‐free protein synthesis systems

J Rolf, J Handke, F Burzinski, S Lütz… - Biotechnology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Cell‐free protein synthesis (CFPS) systems are an attractive method to complement the
usual cell‐based synthesis of proteins, especially for screening approaches. The literature …

Expanding the Cell-Free Reporter Protein Toolbox by Employing a Split mNeonGreen System to Reduce Protein Synthesis Workload

CE Copeland, CJ Heitmeier, KD Doan… - ACS Synthetic …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The cell-free system offers potential advantages in biosensor applications, but its limited
time for protein synthesis poses a challenge in creating enough fluorescent signals to detect …

Cloning, Expression, Purification, and Characterization of Lactate Dehydrogenase from Plasmodium knowlesi: A Zoonotic Malaria Parasite

JW Choi, MJ Choi, YJ Kim, SY Kim - International Journal of Molecular …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Plasmodium knowlesi is the only Plasmodium that causes zoonotic disease among the
Plasmodium that cause infection in humans. It is fatal due to its short asexual growth cycle …

Scalable cell-free production of active T7 RNA polymerase

RN Rezvani, R Aw, W Chan, K Satish, H Chen, A Lavy… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic highlighted the urgent need for biomanufacturing paradigms
that are robust and fast. Here, we demonstrate the rapid process development and scalable …