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BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING
Volume 87, Issue 4, Pages 465-472Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/bit.20139
Keywords
cell-free protein synthesis; cytoplasmic mimicry; nucleotide; amino acid; combined transcription-translation; fed-batch reaction
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01-GM60615] Funding Source: Medline
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Cytoplasmic mimicry has recently led to the development of a novel method for cell-free protein synthesis called the Cytomim system. In vitro translation with this new system produced more than a 5-fold yield increase of chloramphenicol acetyl transferase (CAT) relative to a conventional method using pyruvate as an energy substrate. Factors responsible for activating enhanced protein yields, and causes leading to protein synthesis termination have been assessed in this new system. Enhanced yields were caused by the combination of three changes: growing the extract source cells on 2 x YTPG media versus 2 x YT, replacing polyethylene glycol with spermidine and putrescine, and reducing the magnesium concentration from conventional levels. Cessation of protein synthesis was primarily caused by depletion of cysteine, serine, CTP, and UTP. Substrate replenishment of consumed amino acids, CTP, and UTP extended the duration of protein synthesis to 24 h in fed-batch operation and produced 1.2 mg/mL of CAT. By also adding more T7 RNA polymerase and plasmid DNA, yields were further improved to 1.4 mg/mL of CAT. These results underscore the critical role that nucleotides play in the combined transcription-translation reaction and highlight the importance of understanding metabolic processes influencing substrate depletion. (C) 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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