BacterioFiles 364 - Polyproteins Promote Producing Pabulum
This episode: Engineering other organisms to fix nitrogen by combining the required enzyme components into giant proteins that then get cut into the regular-sized subunit components!
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Show notes:
Microbe of the episode: Blastochloris sulfoviridis
Journal commentary (paywall)
Journal Papers:
Yang J, Xie X, Xiang N, Tian Z-X, Dixon R, Wang Y-P. 2018. Polyprotein strategy for stoichiometric assembly of nitrogen fixation components for synthetic biology. Proc Natl Acad Sci 115:E8509–E8517.
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