Integrating biological redesign: where synthetic biology came from and where it needs to go

JC Way, JJ Collins, JD Keasling, PA Silver - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Synthetic biology seeks to extend approaches from engineering and computation to
redesign of biology, with goals such as generating new chemicals, improving human health …

In vivo co-localization of enzymes on RNA scaffolds increases metabolic production in a geometrically dependent manner

G Sachdeva, A Garg, D Godding, JC Way… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Co-localization of biochemical processes plays a key role in the directional control of
metabolic fluxes toward specific products in cells. Here, we employ in vivo scaffolds made of …

Construction of a linker library with widely controllable flexibility for fusion protein design

G Li, Z Huang, C Zhang, BJ Dong, RH Guo… - Applied microbiology …, 2016 - Springer
Flexibility or rigidity of the linker between two fused proteins is an important parameter that
affects the function of fusion proteins. In this study, we constructed a linker library with five …

Design and characterization of a nanopore-coupled polymerase for single-molecule DNA sequencing by synthesis on an electrode array

PB Stranges, M Palla, S Kalachikov… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Scalable, high-throughput DNA sequencing is a prerequisite for precision medicine and
biomedical research. Recently, we presented a nanopore-based sequencing-by-synthesis …

Engineering bacterial translation initiation—Do we have all the tools we need?

JRJ Vigar, HJ Wieden - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-General …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Reliable tools that allow precise and predictable control over gene expression
are critical for the success of nearly all bioengineering applications. Translation initiation is …

Activation of acid-sensing ion channels by localized proton transient reveals their role in proton signaling

WZ Zeng, DS Liu, L Liu, L She, LJ Wu, TL Xu - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Extracellular transients of pH alterations likely mediate signal transduction in the nervous
system. Neuronal acid-sensing ion channels (ASICs) act as sensors for extracellular …

Introduction to focus issue: quantitative approaches to genetic networks

R Albert, JJ Collins, L Glass - Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
All cells of living organisms contain similar genetic instructions encoded in the organism's
DNA. In any particular cell, the control of the expression of each different gene is regulated …

Bioinspired Design of Artificial Signaling Systems

JC Way, DR Burrill, PA Silver - Biochemistry, 2022 - ACS Publications
Natural systems use weak interactions and avidity effects to give biological systems high
specificity and signal-to-noise ratios. Here we describe design principles for engineering …

[HTML][HTML] Designing cell-targeted therapeutic proteins reveals the interplay between domain connectivity and cell binding

A Robinson-Mosher, JH Chen, J Way, PA Silver - Biophysical Journal, 2014 - cell.com
The therapeutic efficacy of cytokines is often hampered by severe side effects due to their
undesired binding to healthy cells. One strategy for overcoming this obstacle is to tether …

[图书][B] rpsA and ribosomal protein S1: investigating a non-canonical translation initiation element

JRJ Vigar - 2019 - search.proquest.com
Translation initiation rates are fine-tuned by altering interactions between the ribosome and
the translation initiation region of an mRNA. In bacteria varying levels of RNA structure …