Enhancing Intercellular Coordination: Rewiring Quorum Sensing Networks for Increased Protein Expression through Autonomous Induction.

abstract：:Multiplex Automated Genome Engineering (MAGE) allows simultaneous mutagenesis of multiple target sites in bacterial genomes using short oligonucleotides. However, large-scale mutagenesis requires hundreds to thousands of unique oligos, which are costly to synthesize and impossible to scale-up by traditional phosphoram...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Bonde MT,Kosuri S,Genee HJ,Sarup-Lytzen K,Church GM,Sommer MO,Wang HH

更新日期：2015-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-free systems provide a versatile platform for the development of low-cost, easy-to-use sensors for diverse analytes. However, sensor affinity dictates response sensitivity, and improving binding affinity can be challenging. Here, we describe efforts to address this problem while developing a biosensor for vitamin...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： McNerney MP,Piorino F,Michel CL,Styczynski MP

更新日期：2020-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Medium-chain fatty acids (MCFAs) are key intermediates in the synthesis of medium-chain chemicals including α-olefins and dicarboxylic acids. In bacteria, microbial production of MCFAs is limited by the activity and product profile of fatty acyl-ACP thioesterases. Here, we engineer a heterologous bacterial medium-chai...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Sarria S,Bartholow TG,Verga A,Burkart MD,Peralta-Yahya P

更新日期：2018-05-18 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：:Lignans are plant secondary metabolites with a wide range of reported health-promoting bioactivities. Traditional routes toward these natural products involve, among others, the extraction from plant sources and chemical synthesis. However, the availability of the sources and the complex chemical structures of lignans...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Decembrino D,Ricklefs E,Wohlgemuth S,Girhard M,Schullehner K,Jach G,Urlacher VB

更新日期：2020-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Directed evolution requires the creation of genetic diversity and subsequent screening or selection for improved variants. For DNA mutagenesis, conventional site-directed methods implicitly utilize the Boolean AND operator (creating all mutations simultaneously), producing a combinatorial explosion in the number of ge...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Currin A,Kwok J,Sadler JC,Bell EL,Swainston N,Ababi M,Day P,Turner NJ,Kell DB

更新日期：2019-06-21 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：:Cell-free gene expression systems are emerging as an important platform for a diverse range of synthetic biology and biotechnology applications, including production of robust field-ready biosensors. Here, we combine programmed cellular autolysis with a freeze-thaw or freeze-dry cycle to create a practical, reproducib...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Didovyk A,Tonooka T,Tsimring L,Hasty J

更新日期：2017-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The engineering of microbial metabolic pathways over the last two decades has led to numerous examples of cell factories used for the production of small molecules. These molecules have an array of utility in commercial industries and as in situ expressed biomarkers or therapeutics in microbial applications. While mos...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Chien T,Jones DR,Danino T

更新日期：2021-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloids are highly ordered, hierarchal protein nanoassemblies. Functional amyloids in bacterial biofilms, such as Escherichia coli curli fibers, are formed by the polymerization of monomeric proteins secreted into the extracellular space. Curli is synthesized by living cells, is primarily composed of the major curlin...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Seker UO,Chen AY,Citorik RJ,Lu TK

更新日期：2017-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of RNA to sense, regulate, and store information is an attractive attribute for a variety of functional applications including the development of regulatory control devices for synthetic biology. RNA folding and function is known to be highly context sensitive, which limits the modularity and reuse of RNA ...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Kent R,Halliwell S,Young K,Swainston N,Dixon N

更新日期：2018-07-20 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：: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：:Feedback control allows cells to dynamically sense and respond to environmental changes. However, synthetic controller designs can be challenging because of implementation issues, such as determining optimal expression levels for circuit components within a feedback loop. Here, we addressed this by coupling rational d...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Siu Y,Fenno J,Lindle JM,Dunlop MJ

更新日期：2018-01-19 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：:An RNA-dependent RNA polymerase ribozyme that was highly optimized through in vitro evolution for the ability to copy a broad range of template sequences exhibits promiscuity toward other nucleic acids and nucleic acid analogues, including DNA, threose nucleic acid (TNA), and arabinose nucleic acid (ANA). By operating...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Horning DP,Bala S,Chaput JC,Joyce GF

更新日期：2019-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A major force shaping form and patterns in biology is based in the presence of amplification mechanisms able to generate ordered, large-scale spatial structures out of local interactions and random initial conditions. Turing patterns are one of the best known candidates for such ordering dynamics, and their existence ...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Duran-Nebreda S,Solé RV

更新日期：2016-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a hybrid synthetic circuit that co-opts the genetic regulation of the native bacterial quorum sensing autoinducer-2 and imposes an extra external controller for maintaining tightly controlled gene expression. This dual-input genetic controller was mathematically modeled and, by design, can be operated in ...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Hauk P,Stephens K,Virgile C,VanArsdale E,Pottash AE,Schardt JS,Jay SM,Sintim HO,Bentley WE

更新日期：2020-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:It is hard to bridge the gap between mathematical formulations and biological implementations of Turing patterns, yet this is necessary for both understanding and engineering these networks with synthetic biology approaches. Here, we model a reaction-diffusion system with two morphogens in a monostable regime, inspire...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Diambra L,Senthivel VR,Menendez DB,Isalan M

更新日期：2015-02-20 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：: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：:Episodic gene expression, with periods of high expression separated by periods of no expression, is a pervasive biological phenomenon. This bursty pattern of expression draws from a finite reservoir of expression machinery in a highly time variant way, i.e., requiring no resources most of the time but drawing heavily ...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Caveney PM,Norred SE,Chin CW,Boreyko JB,Razooky BS,Retterer ST,Collier CP,Simpson ML

更新日期：2017-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterochiral DNA strand-displacement reactions enable sequence-specific interfacing of oligonucleotide enantiomers, making it possible to interface native d-nucleic acids with molecular circuits built using nuclease-resistant l-DNA. To date, all heterochiral reactions have relied on peptide nucleic acid (PNA), which p...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Young BE,Sczepanski JT

更新日期：2019-12-20 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：: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：: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：: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：:Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli was performed to construct a 100% rationally engineered strain capable of overproducing L-isoleucine, an important branched-chain amino acid. The thrABC (encoding L-threonine biosynthetic enzymes), ilvA (encoding feedback-resistant threonine dehydratase), ilvIH (encoding feedb...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Park JH,Oh JE,Lee KH,Kim JY,Lee SY

更新日期：2012-11-16 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：: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