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ArticleJournal of biological engineering2023

T7Max transcription system.

Christopher Deich, Brock Cash, Wakana Sato, Judee Sharon, Lauren Aufdembrink, Nathaniel J Gaut, Joseph Heili, Kaitlin Stokes, Aaron E Engelhart, Katarzyna P Adamala

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Article in Journal of biological engineering, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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Christopher DeichDepartment of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Brock CashDepartment of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Wakana SatoDepartment of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Judee SharonDepartment of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Lauren AufdembrinkDepartment of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Nathaniel J GautDepartment of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Joseph HeiliDepartment of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Kaitlin StokesDepartment of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Aaron E EngelhartDepartment of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA. enge0213@umn.edu.
Katarzyna P AdamalaDepartment of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA. kadamala@umn.edu.

Funding

RNA Scaffolds for Cell Specific Multiplexed Neural ObservationR01MH114031 · NIMH · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI BOYDEN, EDWARD S. · 2017 to 2020
$2.8M
NIH HHS 5R01MH114031NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH114031
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundEfficient cell-free protein expression from linear DNA templates has remained a challenge primarily due to template degradation. In addition, the yields of transcription in cell-free systems lag behind transcriptional efficiency of live cells. Most commonly used in vitro translation systems utilize T7 RNA polymerase, which is also the enzyme included in many commercial kits.

resultsHere we present characterization of a variant of T7 RNA polymerase promoter that acts to significantly increase the yields of gene expression within in vitro systems. We have demonstrated that T7Max increases the yield of translation in many types of commonly used in vitro protein expression systems. We also demonstrated increased protein expression yields from linear templates, allowing the use of T7Max driven expression from linear templates.

conclusionsThe modified promoter, termed T7Max, recruits standard T7 RNA polymerase, so no protein engineering is needed to take advantage of this method. This technique could be used with any T7 RNA polymerase- based in vitro protein expression system.

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cell-free protein expressionin vitro transcriptionin vitro translationsynthetic cells

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PMID36691081
PMCPMC9872363

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