Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

Cell-free protein synthesis from genomically recoded bacteria enables multisite incorporation of noncanonical amino acids

  • Rey W. Martin,
  • Benjamin J. Des Soye,
  • Yong-Chan Kwon,
  • Jennifer Kay,
  • Roderick G. Davis,
  • Paul M. Thomas,
  • Natalia I. Majewska,
  • Cindy X. Chen,
  • Ryan D. Marcum,
  • Mary Grace Weiss,
  • Ashleigh E. Stoddart,
  • Miriam Amiram,
  • Arnaz K. Ranji Charna,
  • Jaymin R. Patel,
  • Farren J. Isaacs,
  • Neil L. Kelleher,
  • Seok Hoon Hong,
  • Michael C. Jewett

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03469-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Cell-free protein synthesis allows for producing proteins without the need of a host organism, thus sparing the researcher experimental hassle. Here, the authors developed a cell-free synthesis method that enables incorporating non-standard amino acids in the product.