The Fifth Annual Sc2.0 and Synthetic Genomes Conference: Synthetic Genomes in High Gear.

abstract：:A streamlined approach toward the rapid fabrication of streptavidin-biotin-based protein microarrays was investigated. First, using our engineered versatile plasmid (pBADcM-tBirA) and an optimal coexpression strategy for biotin ligase and biotin acceptor peptide (BAP) chimeric recombinant protein, an autogeneration sy...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Li BW,Zhang Y,Wang YC,Xue Y,Nie XY

更新日期：2020-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Feedback allows biological systems to control gene expression precisely and reliably, even in the presence of uncertainty, by sensing and processing environmental changes. Taking inspiration from natural architectures, synthetic biologists have engineered feedback loops to tune the dynamics and improve the robustness ...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Agrawal DK,Tang X,Westbrook A,Marshall R,Maxwell CS,Lucks J,Noireaux V,Beisel CL,Dunlop MJ,Franco E

更新日期：2018-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Optogenetic control of endogenous signaling can be an important tool for probing cell behavior. Using the photoresponse of the LOV2 domain of Avena sativa phototropin 1, we developed analogues of kinase inhibitors whose activity is light dependent. Inhibitory peptides were appended to the Jα helix, where they potently...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Yi JJ,Wang H,Vilela M,Danuser G,Hahn KM

更新日期：2014-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular response to hypoxia is orchestrated by HIF-1, a heterodimeric transcription factor composed of an α and a β subunit that enables cell survival under low oxygen conditions by altering the transcription of over 300 genes. There is significant evidence that inhibition of HIF-1 would be beneficial for cancer ...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Mistry IN,Tavassoli A

更新日期：2017-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Exploiting simple types of symmetry common to many natural protein oligomers as a starting point, several recent studies have succeeded in engineering complex self-assembling protein architectures reminiscent but distinct from those evolved in the natural world. Designing symmetric protein cages with a wide range of p...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Cannon KA,Nguyen VN,Morgan C,Yeates TO

更新日期：2020-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole cell biosensors are genetic systems that link the presence of a chemical, or other stimulus, to a user-defined gene expression output for applications in sensing and control. However, the gene expression level of biosensor regulatory components required for optimal performance is nonintuitive, and classical iter...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Berepiki A,Kent R,Machado LFM,Dixon N

更新日期：2020-03-20 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：:Synthetic biology involves reprogramming and engineering of regulatory genes in innovative ways for the implementation of novel tasks. Transcriptional gene regulation systems induced by small molecules in prokaryotes provide a rich source for logic gates. Cross-regulation, whereby a promoter is activated by different ...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Zhang D,Zhao Y,He Y,Wang Y,Zhao Y,Zheng Y,Wei X,Zhang L,Li Y,Jin T,Wu L,Wang H,Davison PA,Xu J,Huang WE

更新日期：2012-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro transcription and translation reactions have become popular for a bottom-up approach to synthetic biology. Concentrations of the mRNA intermediate are rarely determined, although knowledge of synthesis and degradation rates could facilitate rational engineering of in vitro systems. We designed binary probes t...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Niederholtmeyer H,Xu L,Maerkl SJ

更新日期：2013-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The Design-Build-Test-Learn (DBTL) cycle, facilitated by exponentially improving capabilities in synthetic biology, is an increasingly adopted metabolic engineering framework that represents a more systematic and efficient approach to strain development than historical efforts in biofuels and biobased products. Here, ...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Opgenorth P,Costello Z,Okada T,Goyal G,Chen Y,Gin J,Benites V,de Raad M,Northen TR,Deng K,Deutsch S,Baidoo EEK,Petzold CJ,Hillson NJ,Garcia Martin H,Beller HR

更新日期：2019-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:To spatially control biochemical functions at specific sites within a genome, we have engineered a synthetic switch that activates when bound to its DNA target site. The system uses two CRISPR-Cas complexes to colocalize components of a de novo-designed protein switch (Co-LOCKR) to adjacent sites in the genome. Coloca...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Kirkpatrick RL,Lewis K,Langan RA,Lajoie MJ,Boyken SE,Eakman M,Baker D,Zalatan JG

更新日期：2020-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Owl ( www.owlcad.org ) is a biodesign automation tool that generates electronic datasheets for synthetic biological parts using common formatting. Data can be retrieved automatically from existing repositories and modified in the Owl user interface (UI). Owl uses the data to generate an HTML page with standard typeset...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Appleton E,Tao J,Wheatley FC,Desai DH,Lozanoski TM,Shah PD,Awtry JA,Jin SS,Haddock TL,Densmore DM

更新日期：2014-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:For infectious diseases, rapid and accurate identification of the pathogen is critical for effective management and treatment, but diagnosis remains challenging, particularly in resource-limited areas. Methods that accurately detect pathogen nucleic acids can provide robust, accurate, rapid, and ultrasensitive technol...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Aman R,Mahas A,Mahfouz M

更新日期：2020-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) is an emerging synthetic biology data exchange standard, designed primarily for unambiguous and efficient machine-to-machine communication. However, manual editing of SBOL is generally difficult for nontrivial designs. Here, we describe ShortBOL, a lightweight SBOL scripting ...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Crowther M,Grozinger L,Pocock M,Taylor CPD,McLaughlin JA,Mısırlı G,Bartley BA,Beal J,Goñi-Moreno A,Wipat A

更新日期：2020-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Combinatorial metabolic engineering has been widely established for the development of efficient microbial cell factories to produce the products of interest by precisely regulating the expression levels of multiple genes simultaneously. Here, we report a novel multifunctional CRISPR system that enables simultaneous g...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Dong C,Jiang L,Xu S,Huang L,Cai J,Lian J,Xu Z

更新日期：2020-09-18 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：: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：:Dissimilatory metal-reducing bacteria, particularly those from the genus Shewanella, are of importance for bioremediation of metal contaminated sites and sustainable energy production. However, studies on this species have suffered from a lack of effective genetic tools for precise and high throughput genome manipulat...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Corts AD,Thomason LC,Gill RT,Gralnick JA

更新日期：2019-08-16 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：:To program cells in a dynamic manner, synthetic biologists require precise control over the threshold levels and timing of gene expression. However, in practice, modulating gene expression is widely carried out using prototypical ligand-inducible promoters, which have limited tunability and spatiotemporal resolution. ...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Jayaraman P,Yeoh JW,Zhang J,Poh CL

更新日期：2018-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:RNAs mediate many different processes that are central to cellular function. The ability to quantify or image RNAs in live cells is very useful in elucidating such functions of RNA. RNA aptamer-fluorogen systems have been increasingly used in labeling RNAs in live cells. Here, we use the malachite green aptamer (MGA),...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Yerramilli VS,Kim KH

更新日期：2018-03-16 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：:Synthetic biology holds promise to engineer systems to treat diseases. One critical, yet underexplored, facet of designing such systems is the interplay between the system and the pathogen. Understanding this interplay may be critical to increasing efficacy and overcoming resistance against the system. Using the princ...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Bracho OR,Manchery C,Haskell EC,Blanar CA,Smith RP

更新日期：2016-03-18 00:00:00

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：:DNA replication is one of the central functions of the cell. The complexity of modern DNA replication systems raises a question: is it possible to achieve a simpler continuous isothermal DNA replication using fewer proteins? Here, we searched such replication using an evolutionary approach. Through a long-term serial ...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Okauchi H,Sakatani Y,Otsuka K,Ichihashi N

更新日期：2020-07-17 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：:A gene-directed chemical communication pathway between synthetic protocell signaling transmitters (lipid vesicles) and receivers (proteinosomes) was designed, built and tested using a bottom-up modular approach comprising small molecule transcriptional control, cell-free gene expression, porin-directed efflux, substra...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Tang TD,Cecchi D,Fracasso G,Accardi D,Coutable-Pennarun A,Mansy SS,Perriman AW,Anderson JLR,Mann S

更新日期：2018-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently developed a technique for rapidly and reversibly inhibiting protein function through light-inducible sequestration of proteins away from their normal sites of action. Here, we adapt this method for inducible inactivation of Bem1, a scaffold protein involved in budding yeast polarity. We find that acute inh...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Jost AP,Weiner OD

更新日期：2015-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In many biotechnological applications, it is useful for gene expression to be regulated by multiple signals, as this allows the programming of complex behavior. Here we implement, in Escherichia coli, a system that compares the concentration of two signal molecules, and tunes GFP expression proportionally to their rel...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Annunziata F,Matyjaszkiewicz A,Fiore G,Grierson CS,Marucci L,di Bernardo M,Savery NJ

更新日期：2017-10-20 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