An Artificial Yeast Genetic Circuit Enables Deep Mutational Scanning of an Antimicrobial Resistance Protein.

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：:Mycoplasma hominis is a minimal human pathogen that is responsible for genital and neonatal infections. Despite many attempts, there is no efficient genetic tool to manipulate this bacterium, limiting most investigations of its pathogenicity and its uncommon energy metabolism that relies on arginine. The recent clonin...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Rideau F,Le Roy C,Descamps ECT,Renaudin H,Lartigue C,Bébéar C

更新日期：2017-05-19 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：:Type I modular polyketide synthases (PKSs) are polymerases that utilize acyl-CoAs as substrates. Each polyketide elongation reaction is catalyzed by a set of protein domains called a module. Each module usually contains an acyltransferase (AT) domain, which determines the specific acyl-CoA incorporated into each conde...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Yuzawa S,Deng K,Wang G,Baidoo EE,Northen TR,Adams PD,Katz L,Keasling JD

更新日期：2017-01-20 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：: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：:Noncanonical amino acids form a highly diverse pool of building blocks that can render unique physicochemical properties to peptides and proteins. Here, four methionine analogues with unsaturated and varying side chain lengths were successfully incorporated at four different positions in nisin in Lactococcus lactis th...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Deng J,Viel JH,Chen J,Kuipers OP

更新日期：2020-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes SBOLExplorer, a system that is used to provide intuitive searching within the SynBioHub genetic design repository. SynBioHub stores genetic constructs encoded in the SBOL data format. These constructs can represent genetic parts, circuits, and sequences. These constructs are often numerous, exist ...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Zhang M,Zundel Z,Myers CJ

更新日期：2019-10-18 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：: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：:The photoreceptor cryptochrome 2 (CRY2) has become a powerful optogenetic tool that allows light-inducible manipulation of various signaling pathways and cellular processes in mammalian cells with high spatiotemporal precision and ease of application. However, it has also been shown that the behavior of CRY2 under blu...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Che DL,Duan L,Zhang K,Cui B

更新日期：2015-10-16 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：: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：:Synthetic biology relies on the manufacture of large and complex DNA constructs from libraries of genetic parts. Golden Gate and other Type IIS restriction enzyme-dependent DNA assembly methods enable rapid construction of genes and operons through one-pot, multifragment assembly, with the ordering of parts determined...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Potapov V,Ong JL,Kucera RB,Langhorst BW,Bilotti K,Pryor JM,Cantor EJ,Canton B,Knight TF,Evans TC Jr,Lohman GJS

更新日期：2018-11-16 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：:Dramatic improvements to computational, robotic, and biological tools have enabled genetic engineers to conduct increasingly sophisticated experiments. Further development of biological tools offers a route to bypass complex or expensive mechanical operations, thereby reducing the time and cost of highly parallelized ...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Kittleson JT,DeLoache W,Cheng HY,Anderson JC

更新日期：2012-12-21 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：:Novel approaches are needed to combat antibiotic resistance. Here, we describe a computational-experimental framework for the discovery of novel cryptic antimicrobial peptides (AMPs). The computational platform, based on previously validated antimicrobial scoring functions, indicated the activation peptide of pepsin A...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Pane K,Cafaro V,Avitabile A,Torres MT,Vollaro A,De Gregorio E,Catania MR,Di Maro A,Bosso A,Gallo G,Zanfardino A,Varcamonti M,Pizzo E,Di Donato A,Lu TK,de la Fuente-Nunez C,Notomista E

更新日期：2018-09-21 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：: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：:The microbial ability to resist stressful environmental conditions and chemical inhibitors is of great industrial and medical interest. Much of the data related to mutation-based stress resistance, however, is scattered through the academic literature, making it difficult to apply systematic analyses to this wealth of...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Winkler JD,Halweg-Edwards AL,Erickson KE,Choudhury A,Pines G,Gill RT

更新日期：2016-12-16 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：: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：: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：: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：:Scarless genetic manipulation of genomes is an essential tool for biological research. The restriction-modification (R-M) system is a defense system in bacteria that protects against invading genomes on the basis of its ability to distinguish foreign DNA from self DNA. Here, we designed an R-M system-mediated genome e...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Bai H,Deng A,Liu S,Cui D,Qiu Q,Wang L,Yang Z,Wu J,Shang X,Zhang Y,Wen T

更新日期：2018-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the current methods for controlling the formation rate of a key protein or enzyme in cell factories rely on the manipulation of target genes within the pathway. In this article, we present a novel synthetic system for post-translational regulation of protein levels, FENIX, which provides both independent contr...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Durante-Rodríguez G,de Lorenzo V,Nikel PI

更新日期：2018-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we present a new strategy for microprinting dense bacterial communities with a prescribed organization on a substrate. Unlike conventional bioprinting techniques that require bioinks, through optogenetic manipulation, we directly manipulated the behaviors of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to allow these living ...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Huang Y,Xia A,Yang G,Jin F

更新日期：2018-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:While predictable design of a genetic circuit's output is a major goal of synthetic biology, it remains a significant challenge because DNA binding sites in the cell affect the concentration of available transcription factors (TF). To mitigate this problem, we propose to use a TF that results from the (reversible) pho...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Nilgiriwala KS,Jiménez J,Rivera PM,Del Vecchio D

更新日期：2015-05-15 00:00:00