BBSome trains remove activated GPCRs from cilia by enabling passage through the transition zone

F Ye, AR Nager, MV Nachury - Journal of Cell Biology, 2018 - rupress.org
A diffusion barrier at the transition zone enables the compartmentalization of signaling
molecules by cilia. The BBSome and the small guanosine triphosphatase Arl6, which …

Cytoplasmic dynein-1 cargo diversity is mediated by the combinatorial assembly of FTS–Hook–FHIP complexes

JR Christensen, AA Kendrick, JB Truong… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
In eukaryotic cells, intracellular components are organized by the microtubule motors
cytoplasmic dynein-1 (dynein) and kinesins, which are linked to cargos via adaptor proteins …

PERSIST platform provides programmable RNA regulation using CRISPR endoRNases

B DiAndreth, N Wauford, E Hu, S Palacios… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Regulated transgene expression is an integral component of gene therapies, cell therapies
and biomanufacturing. However, transcription factor-based regulation, upon which most …

Precision control of recombinant gene transcription for CHO cell synthetic biology

AJ Brown, DC James - Biotechnology advances, 2016 - Elsevier
The next generation of mammalian cell factories for biopharmaceutical production will be
genetically engineered to possess both generic and product-specific manufacturing …

Tuning gene expression with synthetic upstream open reading frames

JP Ferreira, KW Overton… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
We engineered short ORFs and used them to control the expression level of recombinant
proteins. These short ORFs, encoding a two-amino acid peptide, were placed upstream of …

Quantitative analyses of core promoters enable precise engineering of regulated gene expression in mammalian cells

C Ede, X Chen, MY Lin, YY Chen - ACS synthetic biology, 2016 - ACS Publications
Inducible transcription systems play a crucial role in a wide array of synthetic biology circuits.
However, the majority of inducible promoters are constructed from a limited set of tried-and …

The RAB39B p.G192R mutation causes X-linked dominant Parkinson's disease

IF Mata, Y Jang, CH Kim, DS Hanna… - Molecular …, 2015 - Springer
Objective To identify the causal gene in a multi-incident US kindred with Parkinson's disease
(PD). Methods We characterized a family with a classical PD phenotype in which 7 …

Synthetic promoters for CHO cell engineering

AJ Brown, B Sweeney, DO Mainwaring… - Biotechnology and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We describe for the first time the creation of a library of 140 synthetic promoters specifically
designed to regulate the expression of recombinant genes in CHO cells. Initially, 10 …

Systematic use of synthetic 5′-UTR RNA structures to tune protein translation improves yield and quality of complex proteins in mammalian cell factories

P Eisenhut, A Mebrahtu, M Moradi Barzadd… - Nucleic Acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Predictably regulating protein expression levels to improve recombinant protein production
has become an important tool, but is still rarely applied to engineer mammalian cells. We …

Engineering of the CMV promoter for controlled expression of recombinant genes in HEK293 cells

YB Johari, JM Scarrott, TH Pohle, P Liu… - Biotechnology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Expression of recombinant genes in HEK293 cells is frequently utilized for production of
recombinant proteins and viral vectors. These systems frequently employ the …