Cell-Free Protein Synthesis: Chassis toward the Minimal Cell

Yue, Ke; Zhu, Yiyong; Kai, Lei

doi:10.3390/cells8040315

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Cell-Free Protein Synthesis: Chassis toward the Minimal Cell

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Kai, Lei
Schwille, Petra / Cellular and Molecular Biophysics, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Max Planck Society;

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Yue, K., Zhu, Y., & Kai, L. (2019). Cell-Free Protein Synthesis: Chassis toward the Minimal Cell. CELLS, 8(4): 315. doi:10.3390/cells8040315.

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The quest for a minimal cell not only sheds light on the fundamental principles of life but also brings great advances in related applied fields such as general biotechnology. Minimal cell projects came from the study of a plausible route to the origin of life. Later on, research extended and also referred to the construction of artificial cells, or even more broadly, as in vitro synthetic biology. The cell-free protein synthesis (CFPS) techniques harness the central cellular activity of transcription/translation in an open environment, providing the framework for multiple cellular processes assembling. Therefore, CFPS systems have become the first choice in the construction of the minimal cell. In this review, we focus on the recent advances in the quantitative analysis of CFPS and on its advantage for addressing the bottom-up assembly of a minimal cell and illustrate the importance of systemic chassis behavior, such as stochasticity under a compartmentalized micro-environment.