Engineered living biomaterials

A Rodrigo-Navarro, S Sankaran, MJ Dalby… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Biomaterials have evolved from inert materials that lack interaction with the body to
biologically active, instructive materials that host and provide signals to surrounding cells …

Reconstructing organisms in silico: genome-scale models and their emerging applications

X Fang, CJ Lloyd, BO Palsson - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2020 - nature.com
Escherichia coli is considered to be the best-known microorganism given the large number
of published studies detailing its genes, its genome and the biochemical functions of its …

A comprehensive genome‐scale reconstruction of Escherichia coli metabolism—2011

JD Orth, TM Conrad, J Na, JA Lerman… - Molecular systems …, 2011 - embopress.org
The initial genome‐scale reconstruction of the metabolic network of Escherichia coli K‐12
MG1655 was assembled in 2000. It has been updated and periodically released since then …

[HTML][HTML] Type VI Secretion System in Pathogenic Escherichia coli: Structure, Role in Virulence, and Acquisition

F Navarro-Garcia, F Ruiz-Perez, Á Cataldi… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Bacterial pathogens utilize a myriad of mechanisms to invade mammalian hosts, damage
tissue sites, and evade the immune system. One essential strategy of Gram-negative …

Genome-scale metabolic reconstructions of multiple Escherichia coli strains highlight strain-specific adaptations to nutritional environments

JM Monk, P Charusanti, RK Aziz… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Genome-scale models (GEMs) of metabolism were constructed for 55 fully sequenced
Escherichia coli and Shigella strains. The GEMs enable a systems approach to …

A modified pCas/pTargetF system for CRISPR-Cas9-assisted genome editing in Escherichia coli

Q Li, B Sun, J Chen, Y Zhang… - Acta Biochimica et …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-associated
nuclease 9 (Cas9)-based genome editing tool pCas/pTargetF system that we established …

[HTML][HTML] Controlling heterologous gene expression in yeast cell factories on different carbon substrates and across the diauxic shift: a comparison of yeast promoter …

B Peng, TC Williams, M Henry, LK Nielsen… - Microbial cell …, 2015 - Springer
Background Predictable control of gene expression is necessary for the rational design and
optimization of cell factories. In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the promoter is one of …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-omics quantification of species variation of Escherichia coli links molecular features with strain phenotypes

JM Monk, A Koza, MA Campodonico, D Machado… - Cell systems, 2016 - cell.com
Escherichia coli strains are widely used in academic research and biotechnology. New
technologies for quantifying strain-specific differences and their underlying contributing …

[HTML][HTML] Genome dependent Cas9/gRNA search time underlies sequence dependent gRNA activity

EA Moreb, MD Lynch - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful DNA editing tool. A gRNA directs Cas9 to cleave any DNA
sequence with a PAM. However, some gRNA sequences mediate cleavage at higher …

[HTML][HTML] Synthetic photosynthetic consortia define interactions leading to robustness and photoproduction

SG Hays, LLW Yan, PA Silver, DC Ducat - Journal of biological …, 2017 - Springer
Background Microbial consortia composed of autotrophic and heterotrophic species abound
in nature, yet examples of synthetic communities with mixed metabolism are limited in the …