PMID- 34894206 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220407 LR - 20231130 IS - 1860-7314 (Electronic) IS - 1860-6768 (Linking) VI - 17 IP - 4 DP - 2022 Apr TI - Improving genomically recoded Escherichia coli to produce proteins containing non-canonical amino acids. PG - e2100330 LID - 10.1002/biot.202100330 [doi] AB - A genomically recoded Escherichia coli strain that lacks all amber codons and release factor 1 (C321.∆A) enables efficient genetic encoding of chemically diverse non-canonical amino acids (ncAAs) into proteins. While C321.∆A has opened new opportunities in chemical and synthetic biology, this strain has not been optimized for protein production, limiting its utility in widespread industrial and academic applications. To address this limitation, the construction of a series of genomically recoded organisms that are optimized for cellular protein production is described. It is demonstrated that the functional deactivation of nucleases (e.g., rne, endA) and proteases (e.g., lon) increases production of wild-type superfolder green fluorescent protein (sfGFP) and sfGFP containing two ncAAs up to approximately 5-fold. Additionally, a genomic IPTG-inducible T7 RNA polymerase (T7RNAP) cassette into these strains is introduced. Using an optimized platform, the ability to introduce two identical N(6) -(propargyloxycarbonyl)-(L) -Lysine residues site specifically into sfGFP with a 17-fold improvement in production relative to the parent strain is demonstrated. The authors envision that their library of organisms will provide the community with multiple options for increased expression of proteins with new and diverse chemistries. CI - (c) 2021 Wiley-VCH GmbH. FAU - Perez, Jessica G AU - Perez JG AD - Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA. AD - Chemistry of Life Processes Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA. FAU - Carlson, Erik D AU - Carlson ED AD - Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA. AD - Chemistry of Life Processes Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA. FAU - Weisser, Oliver AU - Weisser O AD - Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA. AD - Chemistry of Life Processes Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA. FAU - Kofman, Camila AU - Kofman C AD - Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA. AD - Chemistry of Life Processes Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA. FAU - Seki, Kosuke AU - Seki K AD - Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA. AD - Chemistry of Life Processes Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA. FAU - Des Soye, Benjamin J AU - Des Soye BJ AD - Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA. AD - Chemistry of Life Processes Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA. FAU - Karim, Ashty S AU - Karim AS AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-5789-7715 AD - Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA. AD - Chemistry of Life Processes Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA. FAU - Jewett, Michael C AU - Jewett MC AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-2948-6211 AD - Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA. AD - Chemistry of Life Processes Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA. AD - Center for Synthetic Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA. AD - Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA. LA - eng GR - T32 GM105538/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article DEP - 20211229 PL - Germany TA - Biotechnol J JT - Biotechnology journal JID - 101265833 RN - 0 (Amino Acids) RN - 147336-22-9 (Green Fluorescent Proteins) SB - IM MH - *Amino Acids/metabolism MH - *Escherichia coli/genetics/metabolism MH - Green Fluorescent Proteins/genetics/metabolism MH - Synthetic Biology OTO - NOTNLM OT - amber suppression OT - genomically recoded organism OT - non-canonical amino acids OT - orthogonal translational system OT - protein production EDAT- 2021/12/12 06:00 MHDA- 2022/04/08 06:00 CRDT- 2021/12/11 08:38 PHST- 2021/12/08 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2021/06/26 00:00 [received] PHST- 2021/12/09 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2021/12/12 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/04/08 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2021/12/11 08:38 [entrez] AID - 10.1002/biot.202100330 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Biotechnol J. 2022 Apr;17(4):e2100330. doi: 10.1002/biot.202100330. Epub 2021 Dec 29.