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  • Synthetic Biology
  • Biochemistry

Background:

  • Translation termination is crucial for protein synthesis but limits genetic code engineering applications like unnatural amino acid incorporation.
  • Existing methods often rely on specific stop codons, restricting flexibility in protein design.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To establish a translation system that bypasses codon-dependent termination.
  • To enable efficient incorporation of unnatural amino acids and synthesis of proteins from all 64 codons.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized E. coli Pth and ArfB for codon-independent translation termination.
  • Degraded essential and alternative termination machinery in cell extracts.
  • Screened 153 engineered tRNAs for decoding all stop codons.
  • Constructed an in vitro protein synthesis system (iPSSC) with a full sense genetic code.

Main Results:

  • Demonstrated efficient translation termination independent of codon sequence.
  • Achieved significant improvement in unnatural amino acid incorporation at multiple positions.
  • Successfully synthesized proteins encoding consecutive NNN codons.

Conclusions:

  • The developed iPSSC system overcomes codon-dependent termination limitations.
  • This technology holds potential for advanced artificial protein synthesis beyond cellular constraints.
  • Enables broader applications in genetic code engineering and synthetic biology.