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JOURNAL OF PROTEOME RESEARCH
Volume 7, Issue 5, Pages 2107-2113Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/pr700856s
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reverse proteomics; high-throughput protein synthesis; cell-free translation; downstream box; in vitro protein synthesis
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We describe a high-throughput strategy for tuning the expression of recombinant proteins through engineering their early nucleotide sequences. After randomizing the +2 and +3 codons of the target genes, each of the variant genes was isolated in vivo and subsequently expressed using ill vitro protein synthesis techniques. When several hundreds of clones were examined in parallel, it was found that expression levels of target genes varied as much as 70-fold depending on the identity of the codons in the randomized region. This broad and continuous distribution of expression levels enabled the selection of specific codon arrangements for the expression of target genes at a desired level. Furthermore, codon-dependent variations in protein expression were reproduced when the same genes were expressed in vivo. Thus, we expect that the methodology reported here could be utilized as a versatile platform for rapid expression of protein molecules at modulated levels either in vitro or in vivo.
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