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Universal cell-free protein synthesis

Nature Biotechnology volume 27, pages 731–732 (2009)Cite this article

Unstructured translation-initiation sequences enable protein synthesis in cell extracts from multiple organisms.

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Figure 1: Tagging a gene of interest with a species-independent translation sequence (SITS) enables cell-free synthesis of the gene product.

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