Specification and simulation of synthetic multicelled behaviors.

abstract：:This paper describes the development of a new data acquisition standard for synthetic biology. This comprises the creation of a methodology that is designed to capture all the data, metadata, and protocol information associated with biopart characterization experiments. The new standard, called DICOM-SB, is based on t...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Sainz de Murieta I,Bultelle M,Kitney RI

更新日期：2016-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimycins are a family of natural products generated from a hybrid nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS)-polyketide synthase (PKS) assembly line. Although they possess an array of useful biological activities, their structural complexity makes chemical synthesis challenging, and their biosynthesis has thus far been ...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Liu J,Zhu X,Seipke RF,Zhang W

更新日期：2015-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial electrosynthesis is an emerging technology with the potential to simultaneously store renewably generated energy, fix carbon dioxide, and produce high-value organic compounds. However, limited understanding of the route of electrons into the cell remains an obstacle to developing a robust microbial electrosy...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Tefft NM,TerAvest MA

更新日期：2019-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The heteroduplex hybridization thermodynamics of DNA with either RNA or TNA are greatly affected by DNA pyrimidine content, where increased DNA pyrimidine content leads to significantly increased duplex stability. Little is known, however, about the effect that purine or pyrimidine content has on the hybridization kin...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Lackey HH,Chen Z,Harris JM,Peterson EM,Heemstra JM

更新日期：2020-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously engineered green/red and red/far red photoreversible E. coli phytochrome and cyanobacteriochrome (CBCR) two-component systems (TCSs) and utilized them to program tailor-made gene expression signals for gene circuit characterization. Here, we transport the UV-violet/green photoreversible CBCR TCS Uir...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Ramakrishnan P,Tabor JJ

更新日期：2016-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to rapidly design, build, and test prototypes is of key importance to every engineering discipline. DNA assembly often serves as a rate limiting step of the prototyping cycle for synthetic biology. Recently developed DNA assembly methods such as isothermal assembly and type IIS restriction enzyme systems t...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Halleran AD,Swaminathan A,Murray RM

更新日期：2018-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome engineering technologies now enable precise manipulation of organism genotype, but can be limited in scalability by their design requirements. Here we describe Merlin ( http://merlincad.org ), an open-source web-based tool to assist biologists in designing experiments using multiplex automated genome engineerin...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Quintin M,Ma NJ,Ahmed S,Bhatia S,Lewis A,Isaacs FJ,Densmore D

更新日期：2016-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Author: Recently, increasing research in siderophores has been dedicated to their possible medical applications in diagnostics and therapeutics for human pathogenic infections. Fusarinine C (FsC) is a natural hydroxamate siderophore that harbors three amino groups, which allow the easy chemical modification of FsC for...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Lu Y,Wang H,Wang Z,Cong Y,Zhang P,Liu G,Liu C,Chi Z,Chi Z

更新日期：2019-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we develop methodologies for analyzing and cross comparing metabolic models. We investigate three important metabolic networks to discuss the complexity of biological organization of organisms, modeling, and system properties. In particular, we analyze these metabolic networks because of their biotechnol...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Carapezza G,Umeton R,Costanza J,Angione C,Stracquadanio G,Papini A,Lió P,Nicosia G

更新日期：2013-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:As light-regulated actuators, sensory photoreceptors underpin optogenetics and numerous applications in synthetic biology. Protein engineering has been applied to fine-tune the properties of photoreceptors and to generate novel actuators. For the blue-light-sensitive light-oxygen-voltage (LOV) photoreceptors, mutation...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Diensthuber RP,Engelhard C,Lemke N,Gleichmann T,Ohlendorf R,Bittl R,Möglich A

更新日期：2014-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Synonymous mutation of the N-terminal coding sequence (NCS) has been used to regulate gene expression. We here developed a statistical model to predict the effect of the NCSs on protein expression in Bacillus subtilis WB600. First, a synonymous mutation was performed within the first 10 residues of a superfolder green...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Xu K,Tong Y,Li Y,Tao J,Li J,Zhou J,Liu S

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of different host chassis will greatly expand the range of applications in synthetic biology. Members of the Acetobacteraceae family of Gram-negative bacteria form an attractive class of nonmodel microorganisms that can be exploited to produce industrial chemicals, food and beverage, and biomaterials....

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Teh MY,Ooi KH,Danny Teo SX,Bin Mansoor ME,Shaun Lim WZ,Tan MH

更新日期：2019-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Microorganisms often use specific autoinducers other than common metabolites for quorum sensing (QS). Herein, we demonstrated that Escherichia coli produced sulfide (H2S, HS-, and S2-) with the concentrations proportionally correlated to its cell density. We then designed synthetic gene circuits that used H2S as an au...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Liu H,Fan K,Li H,Wang Q,Yang Y,Li K,Xia Y,Xun L

更新日期：2019-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Directed evolution experiments designed to improve the activity of a biocatalyst have increased in sophistication from the early days of completely random mutagenesis. Sequence-based and structure-based methods have been developed to identify "hotspot" positions that when randomized provide a higher frequency of benef...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Moore JC,Rodriguez-Granillo A,Crespo A,Govindarajan S,Welch M,Hiraga K,Lexa K,Marshall N,Truppo MD

更新日期：2018-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:While engineered chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells have shown promise in detecting and eradicating cancer cells within patients, it remains difficult to identify a set of truly cancer-specific CAR-targeting cell surface antigens to prevent potentially fatal on-target off-tumor toxicity against other healthy tiss...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Allen ME,Zhou W,Thangaraj J,Kyriakakis P,Wu Y,Huang Z,Ho P,Pan Y,Limsakul P,Xu X,Wang Y

更新日期：2019-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Strain engineering for synthetic biology and metabolic engineering applications often requires the expression of foreign proteins that can reduce cellular fitness. In order to quantify and visualize the evolutionary stability dynamics in engineered populations of Escherichia coli , we constructed randomized CMY (cyan-...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Sleight SC,Sauro HM

更新日期：2013-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Engineered bacteria promise to revolutionize diagnostics and therapeutics, yet many applications are precluded by the limited number of detectable signals. Here we present a general framework to engineer synthetic receptors enabling bacterial cells to respond to novel ligands. These receptors are activated via ligand-...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Chang HJ,Mayonove P,Zavala A,De Visch A,Minard P,Cohen-Gonsaud M,Bonnet J

更新日期：2018-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-free protein synthesis (CFPS) is a widely used research tool in systems and synthetic biology. However, if CFPS is to become a mainstream technology for applications such as point of care manufacturing, we must understand the performance limits and costs of these systems. Toward this question, we used sequence sp...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Vilkhovoy M,Horvath N,Shih CH,Wayman JA,Calhoun K,Swartz J,Varner JD

更新日期：2018-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycolate is an important α-hydroxy acid with a wide range of industrial applications. The current industrial production of glycolate mainly depends on chemical synthesis, but biochemical production from renewable resources using engineered microorganisms is increasingly viewed as an attractive alternative. Crude glyc...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Zhan T,Chen Q,Zhang C,Bi C,Zhang X

更新日期：2020-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Escherichia coli has been a popular tool for plasmid construction, this bacterium was believed to be "unsuitable" for constructing a large plasmid whose size exceeds 500 kilobases. We assumed that traditional plasmid vectors may lack some regulatory DNA elements required for the stable replication and segrega...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Mukai T,Yoneji T,Yamada K,Fujita H,Nara S,Su'etsugu M

更新日期：2020-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Optogenetic tools can provide direct and programmable control of gene expression. Light-inducible recombinases, in particular, offer a powerful method for achieving precise spatiotemporal control of DNA modification. However, to-date this technology has been largely limited to eukaryotic systems. Here, we develop opto...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Sheets MB,Wong WW,Dunlop MJ

更新日期：2020-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A defining goal of synthetic biology is to develop biomaterials with superior performance and versatility. Here we introduce a purely genetically encoded and self-assembling biopolymer based on the SpyTag-SpyCatcher chemistry. We show the application of this polymer for highly efficient uranyl binding and extraction f...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Yang X,Wei J,Wang Y,Yang C,Zhao S,Li C,Dong Y,Bai K,Li Y,Teng H,Wang D,Lyu N,Li J,Chang X,Ning X,Ouyang Q,Zhang Y,Qian L

更新日期：2018-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to match our ability to conceive of and construct cells with enhanced function, we must concomitantly develop facile, real-time methods for elucidating performance. With these, new designs can be tested in silico and steps in construction incrementally validated. Electrochemical monitoring offers the above ad...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Tschirhart T,Zhou XY,Ueda H,Tsao CY,Kim E,Payne GF,Bentley WE

更新日期：2016-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to autotrophic growing capacity and extremely rich secondary metabolism, plants should be preferred targets of synthetic biology. However, developments in plants usually run below those in other taxonomic groups. In this work we engineered genetic circuits capable of logic YES, OR and AND Boolean computation in pl...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Cordero T,Rosado A,Majer E,Jaramillo A,Rodrigo G,Daròs JA

更新日期：2018-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescent proteins are widely used as fusion tags to detect protein expression in vivo. To become fluorescent, these proteins must undergo chromophore maturation, a slow process with a half-time of 5 to >30 min that causes delays in real-time detection of protein expression. Here, we engineer a genetically encoded f...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Eason MG,Pandelieva AT,Mayer MM,Khan ST,Garcia HG,Chica RA

更新日期：2020-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing protein expression levels is a key step in the commercial production of enzymes. Predicting promoter activity and translation initiation efficiency based solely on consensus sequences have so far met with mixed results. Here, we addressed this challenge using a "brute-force" approach by designing and synthe...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Sauer C,Ver Loren van Themaat E,Boender LGM,Groothuis D,Cruz R,Hamoen LW,Harwood CR,van Rij T

更新日期：2018-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Secondary structure formation of mRNA, caused by desynchronization of transcription and translation, is known to impact gene expression in vivo. Yet, inactivation of mRNA by secondary structures in cell-free protein expression is frequently overlooked. Transcription and translation rates are often not highly synchroni...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Hansen MM,Ventosa Rosquelles M,Yelleswarapu M,Maas RJ,van Vugt-Jonker AJ,Heus HA,Huck WT

更新日期：2016-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Crossbreeding is a classical yeast hybridization procedure, where the mating of haploid cells of opposite mating-type, MATa and MATα cells, produces a new heterozygous diploid. Here, we describe a method to generate haploid MATa and MATα cells using mating-type conversion caused by expression of the HO gene, which enc...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Fukuda N,Matsukura S,Honda S

更新日期：2013-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A significant bottleneck in synthetic biology involves screening large genetically encoded libraries for desirable phenotypes such as chemical production. However, transcription factor-based biosensors can be leveraged to screen thousands of genetic designs for optimal chemical production in engineered microbes. In th...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Thompson MG,Costello Z,Hummel NFC,Cruz-Morales P,Blake-Hedges JM,Krishna RN,Skyrud W,Pearson AN,Incha MR,Shih PM,Garcia-Martin H,Keasling JD

更新日期：2019-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A negating functionality is fundamental to information processing of logic circuits within cells and computers. Aiming to adapt unutilized electronic concepts to the interrogation of signaling circuits in cells, we first took a bottom-up strategy whereby we created protein-based devices that perform negating Boolean l...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Razavi S,Su S,Inoue T

更新日期：2014-09-19 00:00:00