Functional roles of pulsing in genetic circuits

JH Levine, Y Lin, MB Elowitz - Science, 2013 - science.org
A fundamental problem in biology is to understand how genetic circuits implement core
cellular functions. Time-lapse microscopy techniques are beginning to provide a direct view …

Microbial individuality: how single-cell heterogeneity enables population level strategies

BMC Martins, JCW Locke - Current opinion in microbiology, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•Gene expression can be surprisingly dynamic and noisy.•Cell to cell
heterogeneity in gene expression state is a widespread phenomenon.•Phenotypic diversity …

Cell-to-cell variation in p53 dynamics leads to fractional killing

AL Paek, JC Liu, A Loewer, WC Forrester, G Lahav - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Many chemotherapeutic drugs kill only a fraction of cancer cells, limiting their efficacy. We
used live-cell imaging to investigate the role of p53 dynamics in fractional killing of colon …

Coordination of bacterial proteome with metabolism by cyclic AMP signalling

C You, H Okano, S Hui, Z Zhang, M Kim… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
The cyclic AMP (cAMP)-dependent catabolite repression effect in Escherichia coli is among
the most intensely studied regulatory processes in biology. However, the physiological …

Response mechanisms of different antibiotic-resistant bacteria with different resistance action targets to the stress from photocatalytic oxidation

Y Liu, Y Cai, G Li, W Wang, PK Wong, T An - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
The stress response of antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) and the spread of antibiotic
resistance genes (ARGs) pose a serious threat to the aquatic environment and human …

Carbon content and climate variability drive global soil bacterial diversity patterns

M Delgado‐Baquerizo, FT Maestre… - Ecological …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the vital role of microorganisms for ecosystem functioning and human welfare, our
understanding of their global diversity and biogeographical patterns lags significantly …

Characterizing bacterial gene circuit dynamics with optically programmed gene expression signals

EJ Olson, LA Hartsough, BP Landry, R Shroff… - Nature methods, 2014 - nature.com
Gene circuits are dynamical systems that regulate cellular behaviors, often using protein
signals as inputs and outputs. Here we have developed an optogenetic'function …

Meta‐analysis of the coral environmental stress response: Acropora corals show opposing responses depending on stress intensity

G Dixon, E Abbott, M Matz - Molecular Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
As climate change progresses, reef‐building corals must contend more often with
suboptimal conditions, motivating a need to understand coral stress response. Here, we test …

Programming bacteria with light—sensors and applications in synthetic biology

Z Liu, J Zhang, J Jin, Z Geng, Q Qi, Q Liang - Frontiers in microbiology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Photo-receptors are widely present in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, which serves as
the foundation of tuning cell behaviors with light. While practices in eukaryotic cells have …

Rapid changes in morphogen concentration control self-organized patterning in human embryonic stem cells

I Heemskerk, K Burt, M Miller, S Chhabra, MC Guerra… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
During embryonic development, diffusible signaling molecules called morphogens are
thought to determine cell fates in a concentration-dependent way. Yet, in mammalian …