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 …

A user's guide to cell-free protein synthesis

NE Gregorio, MZ Levine, JP Oza - Methods and protocols, 2019 - mdpi.com
Cell-free protein synthesis (CFPS) is a platform technology that provides new opportunities
for protein expression, metabolic engineering, therapeutic development, education, and …

In vitro prototyping and rapid optimization of biosynthetic enzymes for cell design

AS Karim, QM Dudley, A Juminaga, Y Yuan… - Nature Chemical …, 2020 - nature.com
The design and optimization of biosynthetic pathways for industrially relevant, non-model
organisms is challenging due to transformation idiosyncrasies, reduced numbers of …

Compartmentalizing cell-free systems: toward creating life-like artificial cells and beyond

E Cho, Y Lu - ACS Synthetic Biology, 2020 - ACS Publications
Building an artificial cell is a research area that is rigorously studied in the field of synthetic
biology. It has brought about much attention with the aim of ultimately constructing a natural …

Exploring the potential of cell-free protein synthesis for extending the abilities of biological systems

K Khambhati, G Bhattacharjee, N Gohil… - … in bioengineering and …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Cell-free protein synthesis (CFPS) system is a simple, rapid, and sensitive tool that is devoid
of membrane-bound barriers, yet contains all the mandatory substrates, biomolecules, and …

A simple, robust, and low-cost method to produce the PURE cell-free system

B Lavickova, SJ Maerkl - ACS synthetic biology, 2019 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate a simple, robust, and low-cost method for producing the PURE cell-free
transcription–translation system. Our OnePot PURE system achieved a protein synthesis …

Genetic platforms for heterologous expression of microbial natural products

JJ Zhang, X Tang, BS Moore - Natural product reports, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2005 up to 2019 Natural products are of paramount importance in human
medicine. Not only are most antibacterial and anticancer drugs derived directly from or …

Synthetic biology and metabolic engineering of actinomycetes for natural product discovery

E Palazzotto, Y Tong, SY Lee, T Weber - Biotechnology Advances, 2019 - Elsevier
Actinomycetes are one of the most valuable sources of natural products with industrial and
medicinal importance. After more than half a century of exploitation, it has become …

Recent advances in applying cell-free systems for high-value and complex natural product biosynthesis

X Ji, WQ Liu, J Li - Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•Cell-free systems enable total biosynthesis of complex natural products.•Cell-free
systems are robust to express long biosynthetic gene clusters (> 10 kb).•Cell-free reactions …

Establishing a high yielding streptomyces‐based cell‐free protein synthesis system

J Li, H Wang, YC Kwon… - Biotechnology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Cell‐free protein synthesis (CFPS) has emerged as a powerful platform for applied
biotechnology and synthetic biology, with a range of applications in synthesizing proteins …