Fluorescent proteins and in vitro genetic organization for cell-free synthetic biology.

abstract：:Multitargeting small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) represent a potentially useful tool for metabolic engineering applications. Natural multitargeting sRNAs govern bacterial gene expression by binding to the translation initiation regions of protein-coding mRNAs through base pairing. We designed an Escherichia coli based gen...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Lahiry A,Stimple SD,Wood DW,Lease RA

更新日期：2017-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The engineering of bacteria to controllably deliver therapeutics is an attractive application for synthetic biology. While most synthetic gene networks have been explored within microbes, there is a need for further characterization of in vivo circuit behavior in the context of applications where the host microbes are...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Danino T,Lo J,Prindle A,Hasty J,Bhatia SN

更新日期：2012-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Many Gram-negative pathogens encode type 3 secretion systems, sophisticated nanomachines that deliver proteins directly into the cytoplasm of mammalian cells. These systems present attractive opportunities for therapeutic protein delivery applications; however, their utility has been limited by their inherent pathogen...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Reeves AZ,Spears WE,Du J,Tan KY,Wagers AJ,Lesser CF

更新日期：2015-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern bioprocessing depends on superior cellular traits, many stemming from unknown genes and gene interactions. Tolerance to toxic chemicals is such an industrially important complex trait, which frequently limits the economic feasibility of producing commodity chemicals and biofuels. Chemical tolerance encompasses ...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Zingaro KA,Nicolaou SA,Yuan Y,Papoutsakis ET

更新日期：2014-07-18 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：:Ethylene is an industrially important compound, but more sustainable production methods are desirable. Since cellulosomes increase the ability of cellulolytic enzymes by physically linking the relevant enzymes via dockerin-cohesin interactions, in this study, we genetically engineered a chimeric cellulosome-like compl...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Jindou S,Ito Y,Mito N,Uematsu K,Hosoda A,Tamura H

更新日期：2014-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Trihydroxycinnamoyl spermidines (THCSpd) are plant specialized metabolites with promising pharmacological activities as antifungals, antibacterial, antiviral, and antidepressant drugs. However, their characterization and potential pharmaceutical exploitation are greatly impaired by the sourcing of these compounds, res...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Perrin J,Kulagina N,Unlubayir M,Munsch T,Carqueijeiro I,Dugé de Bernonville T,De Craene JO,Clastre M,St-Pierre B,Giglioli-Guivarc'h N,Gagneul D,Lanoue A,Courdavault V,Besseau S

更新日期：2021-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell contents are encapsulated within a compartment, the volume of which is a fundamental physical parameter that may affect intracompartmental reactions. However, there have been few studies to elucidate whether and how volume changes alone can affect the reaction kinetics. It is difficult to address these questi...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Matsuura T,Hosoda K,Kazuta Y,Ichihashi N,Suzuki H,Yomo T

更新日期：2012-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene expression noise arises from stochastic variation in the synthesis and degradation of mRNA and protein molecules and creates differences in protein numbers across populations of genetically identical cells. Such variability can lead to imprecision and reduced performance of both native and synthetic networks. In ...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Mundt M,Anders A,Murray SM,Sourjik V

更新日期：2018-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the OpenPlant toolkit, a set of interlinked resources and techniques to develop Marchantia as testbed for bioengineering in plants. Marchantia is a liverwort, a simple plant with an open form of development that allows direct visualization of gene expression and dynamics of cellular growth in living tissues...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Sauret-Güeto S,Frangedakis E,Silvestri L,Rebmann M,Tomaselli M,Markel K,Delmans M,West A,Patron NJ,Haseloff J

更新日期：2020-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Constructing efficient cellular factories often requires integration of heterologous pathways for synthesis of novel compounds and improved cellular productivity. Few genomic sites are routinely used, however, for efficient integration and expression of heterologous genes, especially in nonmodel hosts. Here, a data-gu...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Brady JR,Tan MC,Whittaker CA,Colant NA,Dalvie NC,Love KR,Love JC

更新日期：2020-09-18 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：:Eukaryotic transcriptional factors (TFs) typically recognize short genomic sequences alone or together with other proteins to modulate gene expression. Mapping of TF-DNA interactions in the genome is crucial for understanding the gene regulatory programs in cells. While chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequen...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Xiong X,Zhang Y,Yan J,Jain S,Chee S,Ren B,Zhao H

更新日期：2017-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The CRISPR-Cas9 nuclease has been repurposed as a tool for gene repression (CRISPRi). This catalytically dead Cas9 (dCas9) variant inhibits transcription by blocking either initiation or elongation by the RNA polymerase complex. Conditional control of dCas9-mediated repression has been achieved with inducible promoter...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Koopal B,Kruis AJ,Claassens NJ,Nobrega FL,van der Oost J

更新日期：2019-02-15 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：:Biosensors regulated by specific substrates are needed to develop genetic tools to meet the needs of engineering microbial cell factories. Here, a xylose-inducible biosensor (xylbiosensor), comprising the Escherichia coli activation factor XylR, fusion activation domain (AD) VPRH, and a hybrid promoter with operator x...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Wei W,Shang Y,Zhang P,Liu Y,You D,Yin B,Ye B

更新日期：2020-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Materials synthesized by organisms, such as bones and wood, combine the ability to self-repair with remarkable mechanical properties. This multifunctionality arises from the presence of living cells within the material and hierarchical assembly of different components across nanometer to micron scales. While creating ...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Charrier M,Li D,Mann VR,Yun L,Jani S,Rad B,Cohen BE,Ashby PD,Ryan KR,Ajo-Franklin CM

更新日期：2019-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomycetes are Gram-positive mycelial bacteria, which synthesize a wide range of natural products including over two-thirds of the currently available antibiotics. However, metabolic engineering in Streptomyces species to overproduce a vast of natural products are hampered by a limited number of genetic tools. Her...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Yi JS,Kim MW,Kim M,Jeong Y,Kim EJ,Cho BK,Kim BG

更新日期：2017-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythromycin is necessary in medical treatment and known to be biosynthesized with propionyl-CoA as direct precursor. Oversupply of propionyl-CoA induced hyperpropionylation, which was demonstrated as harmful for erythromycin synthesis in Saccharopolyspora erythraea. Herein, we identified three propionyl-CoA synthetas...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： You D,Wang MM,Yin BC,Ye BC

更新日期：2019-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:While inducing agents are often used to redirect resources from growth and proliferation toward product outputs, they can be prohibitively expensive on the industrial scale. Previously, we developed an autonomously guided protein production system based on the rewiring of E. coli's native quorum sensing (QS) signal tr...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Zargar A,Quan DN,Bentley WE

更新日期：2016-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Carotenoids, a variety of natural products, have significant pharmaceutical and commercial potential. Phytoene dehydrogenase (CrtI) is the rate-limit enzyme for carotenoid synthesis, whose catalysis specificity results in various carotenoids. However, the structural characteristics of CrtI for controlling the catalysi...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Liang N,Chen C,Wang Y,Ding MZ,Yao MD,Xiao WH,Yuan YJ

更新日期：2020-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Strategies to optimize a metabolic pathway often involve building a large collection of strains, each containing different versions of sequences that regulate the expression of pathway genes. Here, we develop reagents and methods to carry out this process at high efficiency in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We id...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Cuperus JT,Lo RS,Shumaker L,Proctor J,Fields S

更新日期：2015-07-17 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：:Microbial mutualisms play critical roles in a diverse number of ecosystems and have the potential to improve the efficiency of bioproduction for desirable chemicals. We investigate the growth of a photosynthetic cyanobacterium, Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942, and a diazotroph, Azotobacter vinelandii, in coculture. F...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Smith MJ,Francis MB

更新日期：2016-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Transform-MinER (Transforming Molecules in Enzyme Reactions) is a web application facilitating the exploration of chemical biosynthetic space, guiding the user toward promising start points for enzyme design projects or directed evolution experiments. Two types of search are possible: Molecule Search allows a user to ...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Tyzack JD,Ribeiro AJM,Borkakoti N,Thornton JM

更新日期：2019-11-15 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：:One limitation of gene-directed enzyme prodrug therapy (GDEPT) is the difficulty in selectively and efficiently transducing cancer cells with the gene encoding a prodrug-converting enzyme. To circumvent this issue, we sought to move the selectivity from the gene delivery level to the protein level. We developed fusion...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Warren TD,Patel K,Eshleman JR,Ostermeier M

更新日期：2019-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in the design and construction of synthetic multicelled systems in E. coli and S. cerevisiae suggest that it may be possible to implement sophisticated distributed algorithms with these relatively simple organisms. However, existing design frameworks for synthetic biology do not account for the unique ...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Jang SS,Oishi KT,Egbert RG,Klavins E

更新日期：2012-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Menthol isomers are high-value monoterpenoid commodity chemicals, produced naturally by mint plants, Mentha spp. Alternative clean biosynthetic routes to these compounds are commercially attractive. Optimization strategies for biocatalytic terpenoid production are mainly focused on metabolic engineering of the biosynt...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Toogood HS,Ní Cheallaigh A,Tait S,Mansell DJ,Jervis A,Lygidakis A,Humphreys L,Takano E,Gardiner JM,Scrutton NS

更新日期：2015-10-16 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