With as many as a thousand tubes fitting into each cell, the tubular scaffold can be used to increase the bacteria's efficiency to make commodities and provide the foundation for a new era of
cellular protein engineering.
Not exact matches
Like fellow Bay area start - up Geltor, Perfect Day is one of a new breed of companies in the «
cellular agriculture» business — using genetically
engineered yeasts that have been «programmed» to produce
proteins or other ingredients found in plants or animals - on an industrial scale, without raising animals, and with less impact on the environment.
As a result, scaffold
proteins have been exploited by evolution, pathogens, and
cellular engineers to reshape
cellular behavior.
To accomplish this deception biologically, Bartfai and Conti genetically
engineered mice to overexpress uncoupling
protein 2, which causes the mitochondria in cells to produce heat instead of ATP, the fuel source of
cellular activity.
By fiddling with the
cellular postal codes that direct
proteins to the appropriate destination, they inserted a more efficient mannosidase and
engineered a yeast strain with glycoproteins containing far fewer mannose groups, they reported earlier this year.