A Modular Receptor Platform To Expand the Sensing Repertoire of Bacteria.

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：:Exploiting the ability of proteins to self-assemble into architectural templates may provide novel routes for the positioning of functional molecules in nanotechnology. Here we report the engineering of multicomponent protein templates composed of distinct monomers that assemble in repeating orders into a dynamic func...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Glover DJ,Lim S,Xu D,Sloan NB,Zhang Y,Clark DS

更新日期：2018-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria of the order Actinomycetales are one of the most important sources of pharmacologically active and industrially relevant secondary metabolites. Unfortunately, many of them are still recalcitrant to genetic manipulation, which is a bottleneck for systematic metabolic engineering. To facilitate the genetic mani...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Tong Y,Charusanti P,Zhang L,Weber T,Lee SY

更新日期：2015-09-18 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：: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：:As fast terminators of G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) signaling, regulators of G-protein signaling (RGS) serve critical roles in fine-tuning second messenger levels and, consequently, cellular responses to external stimuli. Here, we report the creation of an optogenetic RGS2 (opto-RGS2) that suppresses agonist-evok...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Hannanta-Anan P,Chow BY

更新日期：2018-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:2-Pyrone-4,6-dicarboxylic acid (PDC) is a pseudoaromatic dicarboxylic acid and is a promising biobased building block chemical that can be used to make diverse polyesters with novel functionalities. In this study, Escherichia coli was metabolically engineered to produce PDC from glucose. First, an efficient biosynthet...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Luo ZW,Kim WJ,Lee SY

更新日期：2018-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The measurement of gene expression using fluorescence markers has been a cornerstone of synthetic biology for the past two decades. However, the use of arbitrary units has limited the usefulness of these data for many quantitative purposes. Calibration of fluorescence measurements from flow cytometry and plate reader ...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Fedorec AJH,Robinson CM,Wen KY,Barnes CP

更新日期：2020-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA circuits have been widely used to develop biological computing devices because of their high programmability and versatility. Here, we propose an architecture for the systematic construction of DNA circuits for analog computation based on DNA strand displacement. The elementary gates in our architecture include ad...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Song T,Garg S,Mokhtar R,Bui H,Reif J

更新日期：2016-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying antibiotic resistance requires concerted efforts in enzymology and medicinal chemistry. Here we describe a new synthetic biology approach to antibiotic development, where the presence of tetracycline antibiotics is linked to a life-death selection in Saccharomyces cere...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Scott LH,Mathews JC,Flematti GR,Filipovska A,Rackham O

更新日期：2018-08-17 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：:Prenylated aromatic compounds are important intermediates in the biosynthesis of bioactive molecules such as 3-chromanols from plants, ubiquinones from prokaryotes and meroterpenoids from sponges. Biosynthesis of prenylated aromatic compounds using prokaryotic microorganisms has attracted increasing attention in the f...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： He BB,Bu XL,Zhou T,Li SM,Xu MJ,Xu J

更新日期：2018-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a growing interest in mediating information transfer between biology and electronics. By the addition of redox mediators to various samples and cells, one can both electronically obtain a redox "portrait" of a biological system and, conversely, program gene expression. Here, we have created a cell-based synth...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： VanArsdale E,Hörnström D,Sjöberg G,Järbur I,Pitzer J,Payne GF,van Maris AJA,Bentley WE

更新日期：2020-05-15 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：: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：: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：:We study translation repression in bacteria by engineering a regulatory circuit that functions as a binding assay for RNA binding proteins (RBP) in vivo. We do so by inducing expression of a fluorescent protein-RBP chimera, together with encoding its binding site at various positions within the ribosomal initiation re...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Katz N,Cohen R,Solomon O,Kaufmann B,Atar O,Yakhini Z,Goldberg S,Amit R

更新日期：2018-12-21 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：:A bacterial flavin transferase (ApbE) was recently employed for flavin mononucleotide (FMN) modification on the Na+-translocating NADH:quinone oxidoreductase C (NqrC) protein in the pathogenic Gram-negative bacterium Vibrio cholerae. We employed this unique post-translational modification in mammalian cells and found ...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Kang MG,Park J,Balboni G,Lim MH,Lee C,Rhee HW

更新日期：2017-04-21 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：:Light-switchable proteins enable unparalleled control of molecular biological processes in live organisms. Previously, we have engineered red/far-red and green/red photoreversible two-component signal transduction systems (TCSs) with transcriptional outputs in E. coli and used them to characterize and control syntheti...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Schmidl SR,Sheth RU,Wu A,Tabor JJ

更新日期：2014-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological nitrogen fixation, a process unique to diazotrophic prokaryote, is catalyzed by the nitrogenase complex. There has been a long-standing interest in reconstituting a nitrogenase biosynthetic pathway in a eukaryotic host with the final aim of developing N2-fixing cereal crops. In this study, we report that a ...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Liu X,Wang M,Song Y,Li Y,Liu P,Shi H,Li Y,Hao T,Zhang H,Jiang W,Chen S,Li J

更新日期：2019-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial biofilms are three-dimensional networks of cells entangled in a self-generated extracellular polymeric matrix composed of proteins, lipids, polysaccharides, and nucleic acids. Biofilms can establish themselves on virtually any accessible surface and lead to varying impacts ranging from infectious diseases to...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Balasubramanian S,Aubin-Tam ME,Meyer AS

更新日期：2019-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Top-down reduction of the bacterial genome to construct desired chassis cells is important for synthetic biology. However, the current progress in the field of genome reduction is greatly hindered by indispensable life-essential genes that are interspersed throughout the chromosomal loci. Here, we described a new meth...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Xue X,Wang T,Jiang P,Shao Y,Zhou M,Zhong L,Wu R,Zhou J,Xia H,Zhao G,Qin Z

更新日期：2015-06-19 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：: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：:Robust and precise ratio control of heterogeneous phenotypes within an isogenic population is an essential task, especially in the development and differentiation of a large number of cells such as bacteria, sensory receptors, and blood cells. However, the mechanisms of such ratio control are poorly understood. Here, ...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Menn D,Sochor P,Goetz H,Tian XJ,Wang X

更新日期：2019-06-21 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：:As a product of a multistep enzymatic reaction, accumulation of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) in Escherichia coli (E. coli) can be achieved by overexpression of the PHB synthesis pathway from a native producer involving three genes phbC, phbA, and phbB. Pathway optimization by adjusting expression levels of the three ...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Li T,Ye J,Shen R,Zong Y,Zhao X,Lou C,Chen GQ

更新日期：2016-11-18 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