PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Barbora Lavickova AU - Sebastian J. Maerkl TI - A simple, robust, and low-cost method to produce the PURE cell - free system AID - 10.1101/420570 DP - 2018 Jan 01 TA - bioRxiv PG - 420570 4099 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/09/18/420570.short 4100 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/09/18/420570.full AB - We demonstrate a simple, robust, and low-cost method for producing the PURE cell-free transcription-translation system. Our OnePot PURE system achieved a protein synthesis yield of 156 µg/mL at a cost of 0.09 USD/µL, leading to a 14-fold improvement in cost normalized protein synthesis yield over existing PURE systems. The OnePot method makes the PURE system easy to generate and allows it to be readily optimized and modified.