Transcription factor BACH1 in cancer: roles, mechanisms, and prospects for targeted therapy

D Hu, Z Zhang, X Luo, S Li, J Jiang, J Zhang, Z Wu… - Biomarker …, 2024 - Springer
Transcription factor BTB domain and CNC homology 1 (BACH1) belongs to the Cap 'n'Collar
and basic region Leucine Zipper (CNC-bZIP) family. BACH1 is widely expressed in …

Perspectives on Synthetic Protein Circuits in Mammalian Cells

CA Aldrete, C An, CC Call, XJ Gao… - Current Opinion in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Mammalian synthetic biology aims to engineer cellular behaviors for therapeutic
applications, such as enhancing immune cell efficacy against cancers or improving cell …

Adaptive DNA amplification of synthetic gene circuit opens a way to overcome cancer chemoresistance

Y Wan, Q Mu, R Krzysztoń, J Cohen… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Drug resistance continues to impede the success of cancer treatments, creating a need for
experimental model systems that are broad, yet simple, to allow the identification of …

A systems-level analysis of the mutually antagonistic roles of RKIP and BACH1 in dynamics of cancer cell plasticity

S Shyam, S Ramu, M Sehgal… - Journal of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) is an important axis of phenotypic plasticity—a
hallmark of cancer metastasis. Raf kinase-B inhibitor protein (RKIP) and BTB and CNC …

Optimizing a CRISPR-Cas13d gene circuit for tunable target RNA downregulation with minimal collateral RNA cutting

Y Wan, C Helenek, D Coraci, G Balázsi - ACS Synthetic Biology, 2024 - ACS Publications
The invention of RNA-guided DNA cutting systems has revolutionized biotechnology. More
recently, RNA-guided RNA cutting by Cas13d entered the scene as a highly promising …

[HTML][HTML] ZNF131-BACH1 transcriptionally accelerates RAD51-dependent homologous recombination repair and therapy-resistance of non-small-lung cancer cells by …

M Fan, Q Liu, X Ma, Y Jiang, Y Wang, S Jia… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Rationale: Both bulk RNA-sequencing and GEO database upon chemotherapy to non-small
cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cells reveal that ZNF131 (Zinc Finger Protein 131) maybe a …

Design and Model-Driven Analysis of Synthetic Circuits with the Staphylococcus aureus Dead-Cas9 (sadCas9) as a Programmable Transcriptional Regulator in …

D De Marchi, R Shaposhnikov, S Gobaa… - ACS Synthetic …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Synthetic circuit design is crucial for engineering microbes that process environmental cues
and provide biologically relevant outputs. To reliably scale-up circuit complexity, the …

Tunable, self-contained gene dosage control via proteolytic cleavage of CRISPR-Cas systems

N Katz, C An, YJ Lee, J Tycko, M Zhang, J Kang… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Gene therapy holds great therapeutic potential. Yet, controlling cargo expression in single
cells is limited due to the variability of delivery methods. We implement an incoherent …

Synthetic Gene Circuits as a Promising Approach in Cancer Immunotherapy

B Ananthakumar, N Nanjundeshwara… - Critical Developments …, 2024 - igi-global.com
Cancer immunotherapy has emerged as a revolutionary approach in the fight against
cancer. Unlike traditional treatments like chemotherapy and radiation, immunotherapy …

Synthetic gene circuit evolution: Insights and opportunities at the mid-scale

C Helenek, R Krzysztoń, J Petreczky, Y Wan… - Cell Chemical …, 2024 - cell.com
Directed evolution focuses on optimizing single genetic components for predefined
engineering goals by artificial mutagenesis and selection. In contrast, experimental …