Synthetic microbial consortia enable rapid assembly of pure translation machinery

Nature Chemical Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 29-35

  Villarreal, Fernando ^a   Contreras Llano, Luis E ^a   Chavez, Michael ^a   Ding, Yunfeng ^a   Fan, Jinzhen ^a   Pan, Tingrui ^a   Tan, Cheemeng ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PROTEINASE; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; LYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRANSLATION INITIATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETICS; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 85037731688     PISSN: 15524450     EISSN: 15524469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.2514     Document Type: Article

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