Abstract
We have been developing and using an Escherichia coli cell extract-based coupled transcription–translation cell-free system. The development includes many different issues such as cell extract preparation, template construction, reaction condition, reaction format, and automation. These developments improved the efficiency, productivity, and throughput of our prokaryotic cell-free system, enabling us to use the system as one of the standard expression methods in our group. Our system certainly has the largest successful applications especially to the protein production for the structure determination, among the existing cell-free protein synthesis systems.
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The author would like to thank Takashi Yabuki, Natsuko Matsuda, Eiko Seki, and Takayoshi Matsuda for development of our cell-free system.
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Kigawa, T. (2010). Cell-Free Protein Preparation Through Prokaryotic Transcription–Translation Methods. In: Endo, Y., Takai, K., Ueda, T. (eds) Cell-Free Protein Production. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 607. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-331-2_1
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