Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Engineered ribosomes with tethered subunits for expanding biological function

  • Erik D. Carlson,
  • Anne E. d’Aquino,
  • Do Soon Kim,
  • Emily M. Fulk,
  • Kim Hoang,
  • Teresa Szal,
  • Alexander S. Mankin,
  • Michael C. Jewett

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11427-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Ribo-T is a tethered ribosome complex capable of orthogonal ribosome-mRNA functionality, but has low activity. Here the authors evolve new tether designs that support faster growth and increased protein expression.