[HTML][HTML] Bactericidal activity of silver nanoparticles: A mechanistic review

SA Ahmad, SS Das, A Khatoon, MT Ansari… - Materials Science for …, 2020 - Elsevier
Metallic nanoparticles such as silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) have gained lots of attention
due to the continuous upsurge in microbial infections and diseases, and also inefficient …

Synthetic biology: applications come of age

AS Khalil, JJ Collins - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2010 - nature.com
Synthetic biology is bringing together engineers and biologists to design and build novel
biomolecular components, networks and pathways, and to use these constructs to rewire …

Interdependence of cell growth and gene expression: origins and consequences

M Scott, CW Gunderson, EM Mateescu, Z Zhang… - Science, 2010 - science.org
In bacteria, the rate of cell proliferation and the level of gene expression are intimately
intertwined. Elucidating these relations is important both for understanding the physiological …

Emergence of robust growth laws from optimal regulation of ribosome synthesis

M Scott, S Klumpp, EM Mateescu… - Molecular systems biology, 2014 - embopress.org
Bacteria must constantly adapt their growth to changes in nutrient availability; yet despite
large‐scale changes in protein expression associated with sensing, adaptation, and …

Contextualizing context for synthetic biology–identifying causes of failure of synthetic biological systems

S Cardinale, AP Arkin - Biotechnology journal, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the efforts that bioengineers have exerted in designing and constructing biological
processes that function according to a predetermined set of rules, their operation remains …

[HTML][HTML] Growth rate-dependent global effects on gene expression in bacteria

S Klumpp, Z Zhang, T Hwa - Cell, 2009 - cell.com
Bacterial gene expression depends not only on specific regulatory mechanisms, but also on
bacterial growth, because important global parameters such as the abundance of RNA …

Transcriptome-wide noise controls lineage choice in mammalian progenitor cells

HH Chang, M Hemberg, M Barahona, DE Ingber… - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
Phenotypic cell-to-cell variability within clonal populations may be a manifestation of 'gene
expression noise',,,,,, or it may reflect stable phenotypic variants. Such 'non-genetic cell …

Engineering modular and orthogonal genetic logic gates for robust digital-like synthetic biology

B Wang, RI Kitney, N Joly, M Buck - Nature communications, 2011 - nature.com
Modular and orthogonal genetic logic gates are essential for building robust biologically
based digital devices to customize cell signalling in synthetic biology. Here we constructed …

Single-RNA counting reveals alternative modes of gene expression in yeast

D Zenklusen, DR Larson, RH Singer - Nature structural & molecular …, 2008 - nature.com
Proper execution of transcriptional programs is a key requirement of gene expression
regulation, demanding accurate control of timing and amplitude. How precisely the …

Synthetic gene networks that count

AE Friedland, TK Lu, X Wang, D Shi, G Church… - science, 2009 - science.org
Synthetic gene networks can be constructed to emulate digital circuits and devices, giving
one the ability to program and design cells with some of the principles of modern computing …