Recoded life a step closer to reality

• Autores: Michael Le Page
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3088, 2016, pág. 10
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • It's not finished yet. But if and when it is, it will be the greatest feat of genetic engineering by far. A team in the US is part of the way towards recoding the E. coli bacterium to work with a genetic code that's different from all other organisms on Earth. That means making more than 62,000 changes to its genome. The recoded E. coli could have all kinds of industrial uses. It should be resistant to all existing viruses, and capable of producing proteins unlike any found in nature. Normal proteins have the 20 natural amino acids as their building blocks. The recoded E. coil will make proteins with up to four additional artificial amino acids.