Computationally-guided design and selection of high performing ribosomal active site mutants

C Kofman, AM Watkins, DS Kim, JA Willi… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Understanding how modifications to the ribosome affect function has implications for studying
ribosome biogenesis, building minimal cells, and repurposing ribosomes for synthetic …

[PDF][PDF] Engineering molecular translation systems

C Kofman, J Lee, MC Jewett - Cell systems, 2021 - cell.com
Molecular translation systems provide a genetically encoded framework for protein synthesis,
which is essential for all life. Engineering these systems to incorporate non-canonical …

Three-dimensional structure-guided evolution of a ribosome with tethered subunits

…, E Bidstrup, J Lee, V Topkar, C Kofman… - Nature chemical …, 2022 - nature.com
RNA-based macromolecular machines, such as the ribosome, have functional parts reliant
on structural interactions spanning sequence-distant regions. These features limit …

[HTML][HTML] Ribosome-mediated biosynthesis of pyridazinone oligomers in vitro

…, J Lim, BM Hosford, S Seo, DS Kim, C Kofman… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The ribosome is a macromolecular machine that catalyzes the sequence-defined polymerization
of L-α-amino acids into polypeptides. The catalysis of peptide bond formation between …

[HTML][HTML] Community science designed ribosomes with beneficial phenotypes

…, R Wellington-Oguri, J Romano, C Kofman… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Functional design of ribosomes with mutant ribosomal RNA (rRNA) can expand
opportunities for understanding molecular translation, building cells from the bottom-up, and …

Computationally-guided design and selection of ribosomal active site mutants with high activity

C Kofman, AM Watkins, DS Kim, AC Wooldredge… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Understanding how modifications to the ribosome affect function has implications for studying
ribosome biogenesis, building minimal cells, and repurposing ribosomes for synthetic …

Ribosome Pool Engineering Increases Protein Biosynthesis Yields

C Kofman, JA Willi, AS Karim, MC Jewett - ACS Central Science, 2024 - ACS Publications
The biosynthetic capability of the bacterial ribosome motivates efforts to understand and
harness sequence-optimized versions for synthetic biology. However, functional differences …

Improving genomically recoded Escherichia coli to produce proteins containing non‐canonical amino acids

…, ED Carlson, O Weisser, C Kofman… - Biotechnology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

[PDF][PDF] Three-dimensional structure-guided evolution of a ribosome with tethered subunits

C Kofman, KJ Schwarz, Y Liu, G Pintilie, E Roney… - jewettlab.northwestern.edu
RNA-based macromolecular machines, such as the ribosome, have functional parts reliant
on structural interactions spanning sequence-distant regions. These features limit …

Improving genomically recoded Escherichia coli for the production of proteins containing non-canonical amino acids

JG Perez, ED Carlson, O Weisser, C Kofman, K Seki… - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
A genomically recoded Escherichia coli strain that lacks all amber codons and release factor
1 (C321.ΔA) enables efficient genetic encoding of chemically diverse, non-canonical amino …