Synthetic biology: Engineering a chemical switch into a light-driven proton pump

Posted by on August 9, 2016 1:56 pm
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Synthetic biology is an emerging and rapidly evolving engineering discipline. Now scientists have engineered a chemically switchable version of the light-driven proton pump proteorhodopsin — an essential tool for efficiently powering molecular factories and synthetic cells.

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