Cell-free gene expression

D Garenne, MC Haines, EF Romantseva… - Nature reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Cell-free gene expression (CFE) emerged as an alternative approach to living cells for
specific applications in protein synthesis and labelling for structural biology and proteomics …

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 …

A versatile active learning workflow for optimization of genetic and metabolic networks

A Pandi, C Diehl, A Yazdizadeh Kharrazi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Optimization of biological networks is often limited by wet lab labor and cost, and the lack of
convenient computational tools. Here, we describe METIS, a versatile active machine …

Constructing cell-free expression systems for low-cost access

F Guzman-Chavez, A Arce, A Adhikari… - ACS Synthetic …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Cell-free systems for gene expression have gained attention as platforms for the facile study
of genetic circuits and as highly effective tools for teaching. Despite recent progress, the …

SpyPhage: a cell-free TXTL platform for rapid engineering of targeted phage therapies

SBW Liyanagedera, J Williams, JP Wheatley… - ACS Synthetic …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The past decade has seen the emergence of multidrug resistant pathogens as a leading
cause of death worldwide, reigniting interest in the field of phage therapy. Modern advances …

Regulatory Part Engineering for High-Yield Protein Synthesis in an All-Streptomyces-Based Cell-Free Expression System

H Xu, C Yang, X Tian, Y Chen, WQ Liu… - ACS Synthetic …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Streptomyces-based cell-free expression systems have been developed to meet the
demand for synthetic biology applications. However, protein yields from the previous …

Effective use of linear DNA in cell-free expression systems

MA McSweeney, MP Styczynski - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Cell-free expression systems (CFEs) are cutting-edge research tools used in the
investigation of biological phenomena and the engineering of novel biotechnologies. While …

Optimization of heavy metal sensors based on transcription factors and cell-free expression systems

K Beabout, CB Bernhards, M Thakur… - ACS Synthetic …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Many bacterial mechanisms for highly specific and sensitive detection of heavy metals and
other hazards have been reengineered to serve as sensors. In some cases, these sensors …

Differentially optimized cell-free buffer enables robust expression from unprotected linear DNA in exonuclease-deficient extracts

AC Batista, A Levrier, P Soudier, PL Voyvodic… - ACS Synthetic …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The use of linear DNA templates in cell-free systems promises to accelerate the prototyping
and engineering of synthetic gene circuits. A key challenge is that linear templates are …

High-Efficiency Protection of Linear DNA in Cell-Free Extracts from Escherichia coli and Vibrio natriegens

M Norouzi, S Panfilov, K Pardee - ACS Synthetic Biology, 2021 - ACS Publications
The field of cell-free synthetic biology is an emerging branch of engineered biology that
allows for rapid prototyping of biological designs and, in its own right, is becoming a venue …