Engineering Prokaryotic Transcriptional Activator XylR as a Xylose-Inducible Biosensor for Transcription Activation in Yeast.

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：:A common approach to design genetic circuits is to compose gene expression cassettes together. While appealing, this modular approach is challenged by the fact that expression of each gene depends on the availability of transcriptional/translational resources, which is in turn determined by the presence of other genes...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Qian Y,Huang HH,Jiménez JI,Del Vecchio D

更新日期：2017-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The Sc2.0 project is perhaps the largest synthetic biology project in the public domain, and ultimately aims to construct a new version of the humble brewer's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Each year, the Sc2.0 consortium gather to discuss progress in this ambitious project and highlight new developments at the fore...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Walker RS,Cai Y

更新日期：2016-09-16 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

abstract：:In the search for enzymatically processed RNA fragments, we found the novel three-way junction motif. The structure prediction suggested the arrangement of helices at acute angle approx. 60°. This allows the design of a trimeric RNA nanoparticle that can be functionalized with multiple regulatory fragments. Such RNA n...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Jedrzejczyk D,Chworos A

更新日期：2019-03-15 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：:Nanostructures formed by self-assembled peptides have been increasingly exploited as functional materials for a wide variety of applications, from biotechnology to energy. However, it is sometimes challenging to assemble free short peptides into functional supramolecular structures, since not all peptides have the abi...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Abdali Z,Aminzare M,Zhu X,DeBenedictis E,Xie O,Keten S,Dorval Courchesne NM

更新日期：2020-12-18 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：: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：:Synthetic biology and metabolic engineering offer potentially green and attractive routes to the production of high value compounds. The provision of high-quality parts and pathways is crucial in enabling the biosynthesis of chemicals using synthetic biology. While a number of regulatory parts that provide control at ...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Wilkes J,Scott-Tucker A,Wright M,Crabbe T,Scrutton NS

更新日期：2020-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Agricultural soils are often cocontaminated with multiple pesticides. Unfortunately, microorganisms isolated from natural environments do not possess the ability to simultaneously degrade different classes of pesticides. Currently, we can use the approaches of synthetic biology to create a strain endowed with various ...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Gong T,Liu R,Zuo Z,Che Y,Yu H,Song C,Yang C

更新日期：2016-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantification of biology's central dogma (transcription and translation) is pursued by a variety of methods. Direct, immediate, and ongoing quantification of these events is difficult to achieve. Common practice is to use fluorescent or luminescent proteins to report indirectly on prior cellular events, such as turni...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Wick S,Walsh DI 3rd,Bobrow J,Hamad-Schifferli K,Kong DS,Thorsen T,Mroszczyk K,Carr PA

更新日期：2019-05-17 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：: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：: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：: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：:Engineered genetic systems are commonly unstable; if propagated, they evolve to reverse or modify engineered elements because the elements impair fitness. A goal of synthetic biology is thus to anticipate and avoid detrimental engineering, but little is yet known about which types of elements cause problems in differe...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Springman R,Molineux IJ,Duong C,Bull RJ,Bull JJ

更新日期：2012-09-21 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：:Phenazine-1-carboxamide (PCN) produced by multifarious Pseudomonas strains represents a promising candidate as a new metabolite pesticide due to its broad-spectrum antifungal activity and capacity to induce systemic resistance in plants. The rice rhizosphere Pseudomonas strain PA1201 contains two reiterated gene clust...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Jin ZJ,Zhou L,Sun S,Cui Y,Song K,Zhang X,He YW

更新日期：2020-07-17 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：:Multidrug resistance (MDR) is a globally relevant problem that requires novel approaches. Two-component systems are a promising, yet untapped target for novel antibacterials. They are prevalent in bacteria and absent in mammals, and their activity can be modulated upon perception of various stimuli. Screening pre-exis...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Lehning CE,Heidelberger JB,Reinhard J,Nørholm MHH,Draheim RR

更新日期：2017-07-21 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：:The versatility of Ca2+ signals allows it to regulate diverse cellular processes such as migration, apoptosis, motility and exocytosis. In some receptors (e.g., VEGFR2), Ca2+ signals are generated upon binding their ligand(s) (e.g., VEGF-A). Here, we employed a design strategy to engineer proteins that generate a Ca2+...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Qudrat A,Truong K

更新日期：2017-03-17 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：: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：:Bacterial microcompartments are subcellular compartments found in many prokaryotes; they consist of a protein shell that encapsulates enzymes that perform a variety of functions. The shell protects the cell from potentially toxic intermediates and colocalizes enzymes for higher efficiency. Accordingly, it is of consid...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Sutter M,McGuire S,Ferlez B,Kerfeld CA

更新日期：2019-04-19 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：: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：: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：:Movement of molecules across membranes in response to a stimulus is a key component of cellular programming. Here, we characterize and manipulate the response of a protein-based piston capable of puncturing membranes in a pH-dependent manner. Our protein actuator consists of modified R bodies found in a bacterial endo...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Polka JK,Silver PA

更新日期：2016-04-15 00:00:00