You're One In A Googol: Optimizing Genes For Protein Expression

Main Category: Genetics
Also Included In: Biology / Biochemistry
Article Date: 11 Mar 2009 - 6:00 PDT

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Heterologous protein expression is fundamental to biotechnology. Still, there has been little systematic analysis of the relationship between gene design and expression success.

Advances in synthetic biology now provide the impetus to transform protein expression folklore into design principles, so that DNA sequences may be designed to express any protein at functional levels in any system.

In this review we offer a brief survey of the literature, outline the major challenges in interpreting existing data and constructing robust design algorithms, and propose a way to proceed toward the goal of rational sequence engineering.

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