Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

High-throughput 5′ UTR engineering for enhanced protein production in non-viral gene therapies

  • Jicong Cao,
  • Eva Maria Novoa,
  • Zhizhuo Zhang,
  • William C. W. Chen,
  • Dianbo Liu,
  • Gigi C. G. Choi,
  • Alan S. L. Wong,
  • Claudia Wehrspaun,
  • Manolis Kellis,
  • Timothy K. Lu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24436-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The engineering of 5′ UTRs that modulate protein expression remains a great challenge. Here we leverage synthetic biology and computational design to develop a high-throughput strategy to design, screen, and optimize 5′ UTRs that enhance protein expression for non-viral gene therapies.