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Genetic Code Expansion: Inception, Development, Commercialization.

Miglena Manandhar¹, Eugene Chun¹, Floyd E Romesberg¹

¹Synthorx, a Sanofi Company, La Jolla, California 92037, United States.

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Genetic code expansion (GCE) enables creating novel proteins with enhanced therapeutic properties. This review focuses on GCE in E. coli, its commercialization, and future potential for protein therapeutics.

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Area of Science:

Biochemistry
Molecular Biology
Biotechnology

Background:

Proteins are synthesized from 20 standard amino acids.
Genetic code expansion (GCE) allows incorporating non-canonical amino acids (ncAAs).
This expands protein functionality and therapeutic potential.

Purpose of the Study:

To review the history and current status of GCE.
To analyze the commercialization of GCE for protein therapeutics.
To discuss lessons learned and future directions.

Main Methods:

Focus on GCE methodologies in *E. coli*.
Review of academic and early commercialization efforts.
Analysis of challenges and successes in GCE implementation.

Main Results:

GCE is transitioning from academic research to commercial applications.
Early commercialization efforts provided valuable lessons.
*E. coli* is a key host for GCE development.

Conclusions:

GCE methodologies are advancing rapidly.
Routine optimization of protein therapeutics is becoming feasible.
GCE promises to revolutionize therapeutic protein development.