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 …

What is the total number of protein molecules per cell volume? A call to rethink some published values

R Milo - Bioessays, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Novel methods such as mass‐spectrometry enable a view of the proteomes of cells in
unprecedented detail. Recently, these efforts have culminated in quantitative measurements …

The quantitative and condition-dependent Escherichia coli proteome

A Schmidt, K Kochanowski, S Vedelaar, E Ahrné… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Measuring precise concentrations of proteins can provide insights into biological processes.
Here we use efficient protein extraction and sample fractionation, as well as state-of-the-art …

Genome-wide inactivation of porcine endogenous retroviruses (PERVs)

L Yang, M Güell, D Niu, H George, E Lesha, D Grishin… - Science, 2015 - science.org
The shortage of organs for transplantation is a major barrier to the treatment of organ failure.
Although porcine organs are considered promising, their use has been checked by …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying absolute protein synthesis rates reveals principles underlying allocation of cellular resources

GW Li, D Burkhardt, C Gross, JS Weissman - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Quantitative views of cellular functions require precise measures of rates of biomolecule
production, especially proteins—the direct effectors of biological processes. Here, we …

Identification and characterization of essential genes in the human genome

T Wang, K Birsoy, NW Hughes, KM Krupczak, Y Post… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Large-scale genetic analysis of lethal phenotypes has elucidated the molecular
underpinnings of many biological processes. Using the bacterial clustered regularly …

Codon influence on protein expression in E. coli correlates with mRNA levels

G Boël, R Letso, H Neely, WN Price, KH Wong, M Su… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Degeneracy in the genetic code, which enables a single protein to be encoded by a
multitude of synonymous gene sequences, has an important role in regulating protein …

Genomically recoded organisms expand biological functions

MJ Lajoie, AJ Rovner, DB Goodman, HR Aerni… - science, 2013 - science.org
We describe the construction and characterization of a genomically recoded organism
(GRO). We replaced all known UAG stop codons in Escherichia coli MG1655 with …

Coordination of microbial metabolism

V Chubukov, L Gerosa, K Kochanowski… - Nature Reviews …, 2014 - nature.com
Beyond fuelling cellular activities with building blocks and energy, metabolism also
integrates environmental conditions into intracellular signals. The underlying regulatory …

Quantitative proteomic analysis reveals a simple strategy of global resource allocation in bacteria

S Hui, JM Silverman, SS Chen, DW Erickson… - Molecular systems …, 2015 - embopress.org
A central aim of cell biology was to understand the strategy of gene expression in response
to the environment. Here, we study gene expression response to metabolic challenges in …