Synthetic regulatory elements for fine-tuning gene expression

H Yang, Y Xia, X Chen - Systems and synthetic metabolic engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
… Proteolysis tags or degrons were used to modify target proteins for protein-level
regulation … It was verified that the oscillations’ robustness was improved and tunability was …

[HTML][HTML] Targeted protein degradation by Trim-Away using cell resealing coupled with microscopic image-based quantitative analysis

R Kunishige, M Murata, F Kano - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
through delivery of antibodies that target proteins of interest. Although this approach can be
readily applied to almost any cytosolic protein… Trim-Away protein degradation using IKKα and …

[HTML][HTML] Chemogenetic ON and OFF switches for RNA virus replication

E Heilmann, J Kimpel, B Hofer, A Rössler… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
… , OFF-switch control of measles virus RNA replication was shown via small molecule-assisted
shutoff (SMASh)–tags fused C-terminally to the viral P protein 9 . An externally tunable ON …

A Floxed exon (Flexon) approach to Cre-mediated conditional gene expression

JM Shaffer, I Greenwald - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
… loxP scar left from the self-excising cassette method of genome … The Flexon system is tunable
and may be incorporated into … a floxed, degron-tagged gene while simultaneously using a …

A genetic mammalian proportional–integral feedback control circuit for robust and precise gene regulation

T Frei, CH Chang, M Filo… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
… the expression of a synthetic transcription factor at tunable … loop with an RNA-binding protein.
We further demonstrate an … , if the sequestration reaction is reversible and/or it produces …

Chemical-genetics refines transcription factor regulatory circuits

HM Layden, AE Johnson, SW Hiebert - Trends in Cancer, 2023 - cell.com
… While our focus has been on using chemical-genetics to engineer degron tags for
understanding the mechanisms of underlying cancer development, new PROTACs and molecular …

Genetically engineered integral feedback controllers for robust perfect adaptation in mammalian cells

T Frei, CH Chang, M Filo, M Khammash - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
… The expression of this gene is driven by the strong … drives the expression of the other gene
in the antisense plasmid via the … As an experimental control incapable of producing integral …

Protein manipulation using single copies of short peptide tags in cultured cells and in Drosophila melanogaster

MA Vigano, CM Ell, MMM Kustermann… - …, 2021 - journals.biologists.com
… copy of a short tag allows protein binding and manipulation. Using Drosophila, we show that
… in vivo in developing organisms and allow protein degradation and protein relocalization. …

PROTACs: Promising approaches for epigenetic strategies to overcome drug resistance

SF Giardina, E Valdambrini, JD Warren… - Current Cancer Drug …, 2021 - ingentaconnect.com
… in drug discovery targeting the epigenome, highlighting recent advances the selective
degradation of target proteins using Proteolysis Targeting Chimera (PROTAC) to address drug

[HTML][HTML] Transcription and beyond: delineating FOXG1 function in cortical development and disorders

PS Hou, DO HAilin, T Vogel… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
… endogenous proteins to be targeted and their abundance to be precisely altered. This
SMASh technique utilizes proteins fused to a self-removing degron, which allows reversible and …