Plant-Based Cell-Free Transcription and Translation of Recombinant Proteins

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Plant cell-free lysates contain all the cellular components of the protein biosynthesis machinery, providing an alternative to intact plant cells, tissues, and whole plants for the production of recombinant proteins. Cell-free lysates achieve rapid protein production (within hours or days) and allow the synthesis of proteins that are cytotoxic or unstable in living cells. The open nature of cell-free lysates and their homogeneous and reproducible performance is ideal for protein production, especially for screening applications, allowing the direct addition of nucleic acid templates encoding proteins of interest, as well as other components such as enzyme substrates, chaperones, artificial amino acids, or labeling molecules. Here we describe procedures for the production of recombinant proteins in the ALiCE (Almost Living Cell-free Expression) system, a lysate derived from tobacco cell suspension cultures that can be used to manufacture protein products for molecular and biochemical analysis as well as applications in the pharmaceutical industry.

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Buntru, M., Vogel, S., Finnern, R., & Schillberg, S. (2022). Plant-Based Cell-Free Transcription and Translation of Recombinant Proteins. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 2480, pp. 113–124). Humana Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2241-4_8

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