Minimization of Elements for Isothermal DNA Replication by an Evolutionary Approach.

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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Directed evolution experiments designed to improve the activity of a biocatalyst have increased in sophistication from the early days of completely random mutagenesis. Sequence-based and structure-based methods have been developed to identify "hotspot" positions that when randomized provide a higher frequency of benef...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Moore JC,Rodriguez-Granillo A,Crespo A,Govindarajan S,Welch M,Hiraga K,Lexa K,Marshall N,Truppo MD

更新日期：2018-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA structures regulate various steps in gene expression. Transcription in bacteria is typically terminated by stable hairpin structures. Translation initiation can be modulated by metabolite- or temperature-sensitive RNA structures, called riboswitches or RNA thermometers (RNATs), respectively. RNATs control translat...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Roßmanith J,Weskamp M,Narberhaus F

更新日期：2018-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Simple computation can be performed using the interactions between single-stranded molecules of DNA. These interactions are typically toehold-mediated strand displacement reactions in a well-mixed solution. We demonstrate that a DNA circuit with tethered reactants is a distributed system and show how it can be describ...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Boemo MA,Lucas AE,Turberfield AJ,Cardelli L

更新日期：2016-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing protein expression levels is a key step in the commercial production of enzymes. Predicting promoter activity and translation initiation efficiency based solely on consensus sequences have so far met with mixed results. Here, we addressed this challenge using a "brute-force" approach by designing and synthe...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Sauer C,Ver Loren van Themaat E,Boender LGM,Groothuis D,Cruz R,Hamoen LW,Harwood CR,van Rij T

更新日期：2018-07-20 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：: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：: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：: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：:The structural complexity of nonribosomal peptides (NRPs) impeding economic chemical synthesis and poor cultivability of source organisms limits the development of bioprocesses for novel bioactive compounds. Since nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs) assemble NRPs from simple amino acid building blocks, heterologo...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Jaitzig J,Li J,Süssmuth RD,Neubauer P

更新日期：2014-07-18 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 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：: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：:Antimycins are a family of natural products generated from a hybrid nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS)-polyketide synthase (PKS) assembly line. Although they possess an array of useful biological activities, their structural complexity makes chemical synthesis challenging, and their biosynthesis has thus far been ...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Liu J,Zhu X,Seipke RF,Zhang W

更新日期：2015-05-15 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:To elucidate the function of mevalonate-5-pyrophosphate decarboxylase (MVD) and farnesyl pyrophosphate synthase (FPS) in triterpene biosynthesis, the genes governing the expression of these enzymes were transformed into Panax ginseng hairy roots. All the transgenic lines showed higher expression levels of PgMVD and Pg...

journal_title：ACS synthetic biology

authors： Kim YK,Kim YB,Uddin MR,Lee S,Kim SU,Park SU

更新日期：2014-10-17 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：: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：: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：: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