Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

A fully orthogonal system for protein synthesis in bacterial cells

  • Nikolay A. Aleksashin,
  • Teresa Szal,
  • Anne E. d’Aquino,
  • Michael C. Jewett,
  • Nora Vázquez-Laslop,
  • Alexander S. Mankin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15756-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Ribosome engineering is an emerging powerful approach for synthetic protein synthesis. Here the authors invert the Ribo-T system, using the engineered ribosome to translate the proteome while the native ribosome translates specific mRNA.