Directed evolution: methodologies and applications

Y Wang, P Xue, M Cao, T Yu, ST Lane… - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Directed evolution aims to expedite the natural evolution process of biological molecules
and systems in a test tube through iterative rounds of gene diversifications and library …

Microbial biofilm: a review on formation, infection, antibiotic resistance, control measures, and innovative treatment

S Sharma, J Mohler, SD Mahajan, SA Schwartz… - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
Biofilm is complex and consists of bacterial colonies that reside in an exopolysaccharide
matrix that attaches to foreign surfaces in a living organism. Biofilm frequently leads to …

Biotechnological methods to remove microplastics: a review

U Anand, S Dey, E Bontempi, S Ducoli… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Microplastics pollution is major threat to ecosystems and is impacting abiotic and biotic
components. Microplastics are diverse and highly complex contaminants that transport other …

Chromothripsis as an on-target consequence of CRISPR–Cas9 genome editing

ML Leibowitz, S Papathanasiou, PA Doerfler… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome editing has therapeutic potential for treating genetic diseases and cancer.
However, the currently most practicable approaches rely on the generation of DNA double …

Applications of genome editing technology in the targeted therapy of human diseases: mechanisms, advances and prospects

H Li, Y Yang, W Hong, M Huang, M Wu… - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
Based on engineered or bacterial nucleases, the development of genome editing
technologies has opened up the possibility of directly targeting and modifying genomic …

Fundamentals, applications, and future directions of bioelectrocatalysis

H Chen, O Simoska, K Lim, M Grattieri, M Yuan… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Bioelectrocatalysis is an interdisciplinary research field combining biocatalysis and
electrocatalysis via the utilization of materials derived from biological systems as catalysts to …

Latest developed strategies to minimize the off-target effects in CRISPR-Cas-mediated genome editing

M Naeem, S Majeed, MZ Hoque, I Ahmad - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Gene editing that makes target gene modification in the genome by deletion or addition has
revolutionized the era of biomedicine. Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic …

Unconstrained genome targeting with near-PAMless engineered CRISPR-Cas9 variants

RT Walton, KA Christie, MN Whittaker, BP Kleinstiver - Science, 2020 - science.org
Manipulation of DNA by CRISPR-Cas enzymes requires the recognition of a protospacer-
adjacent motif (PAM), limiting target site recognition to a subset of sequences. To remove …

CRISPR technologies and the search for the PAM-free nuclease

D Collias, CL Beisel - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
The ever-expanding set of CRISPR technologies and their programmable RNA-guided
nucleases exhibit remarkable flexibility in DNA targeting. However, this flexibility comes with …

DNA repair pathway choices in CRISPR-Cas9-mediated genome editing

C Xue, EC Greene - Trends in Genetics, 2021 - cell.com
Many clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-CRISPR-
associated protein 9 (Cas9)-based genome editing technologies take advantage of Cas …