Bacterial glycoengineering: Cell-based and cell-free routes for producing biopharmaceuticals with customized glycosylation

JA Palma, MI Bunyatov, SW Hulbert, MC Jewett… - Current Opinion in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Glycosylation plays a pivotal role in tuning the folding and function of proteins. Because
most human therapeutic proteins are glycosylated, understanding and controlling …

Advances in bacterial glycoprotein engineering: A critical review of current technologies, emerging challenges, and future directions

Z Li, Y Wang, X Zhao, Q Meng, G Ma, L **e… - Biotechnology …, 2025 - Elsevier
Protein glycosylation, which involves the addition of carbohydrate chains to amino acid side
chains, imparts essential properties to proteins, offering immense potential in synthetic …

Cell-Free Translation Quantification via a Fluorescent Minihelix

JA Willi, AS Karim, MC Jewett - ACS synthetic biology, 2024 - ACS Publications
Cell-free gene expression systems are used in numerous applications, including medicine
making, diagnostics, and educational kits. Accurate quantification of nonfluorescent proteins …

Establishing a Cell-Free Glycoprotein Synthesis System for Enzymatic N-GlcNAcylation

MA DeWinter, DA Wong, R Fernandez… - ACS Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
N-linked glycosylation plays a key role in the efficacy of many therapeutic proteins. One
limitation to the bacterial glycoengineering of human N-linked glycans is the difficulty of …

Using High-Throughput Experiments To Screen N-Glycosyltransferases with Altered Specificities

L Lin, W Kightlinger, KF Warfel, MC Jewett… - ACS synthetic …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The important roles that protein glycosylation plays in modulating the activities and efficacies
of protein therapeutics have motivated the development of synthetic glycosylation systems in …

Cell-free systems for a multi-pronged approach to next-generation therapeutics and diagnostics

KJ Kim, SJ Lee, DM Kim - Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering, 2024 - Springer
Effective diagnostics and therapeutics are foundational to modern medical technology. As
the drug modality transitions from traditional small-molecule drugs to more intricate protein …

Cell-Free Synthesis System: An Accessible Platform from Biosensing to Biomanufacturing

Y Chen, W **a, F Lu, Z Chen, Y Liu, M Cao… - Microbiological Research, 2025 - Elsevier
The fundamental aspect of cell-free synthesis systems is the in vitro transcription-translation
process. By artificially providing the components required for protein expression, in vitro …

Scalable cell-free production of active T7 RNA polymerase

RN Rezvani, R Aw, W Chan, K Satish, H Chen, A Lavy… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic highlighted the urgent need for biomanufacturing paradigms
that are robust and fast. Here, we demonstrate the rapid process development and scalable …

AI-driven high-throughput droplet screening of cell-free gene expression

J Zhu, Y Meng, W Gao, S Yang, W Zhu, X Ji, X Zhai… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Cell-free gene expression (CFE) systems enable transcription and translation using crude
cellular extracts, offering a versatile platform for synthetic biology by eliminating the need to …

Cell-Free Systems for the Production of Glycoproteins

EJ Bidstrup, YH Kwon, K Kim, CK Bandi, R Aw… - … : Methods and Protocols, 2024 - Springer
Cell-free protein synthesis (CFPS), whereby cell lysates are used to produce proteins from a
genetic template, has matured as an attractive alternative to standard biomanufacturing …