And Escherichia coli with only
the synthetic ribosomes lived nearly as well as wild peers.
Not exact matches
Graduate student Emily Thomas,
synthetic biologist Jonathan Silberg and their colleagues built upon established techniques that attach bio-orthogonal (noninterfering), artificial amino acids to transfer RNA (tRNA), which are used by
ribosomes to synthesize proteins.
In the second, they worked out the conditions required to allow their
synthetic helix to be appended to natural proteins during synthesis by cellular
ribosomes.
«A mirror - image
ribosome would provide a dramatically easier and more cost - effective method to produce usable quantities of diverse mirror - image proteins, and would be the heart of a fully
synthetic mirror - image cell,» says Kay.