Synthetic gene circuits as tools for drug discovery

AM Beitz, CG Oakes, KE Galloway - Trends in Biotechnology, 2022 - cell.com
Within mammalian systems, there exists enormous opportunity to use synthetic gene circuits
to enhance phenotype-based drug discovery, to map the molecular origins of disease, and …

Reporter-based screens for the ubiquitin/proteasome system

ME Gierisch, TA Giovannucci, NP Dantuma - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Instant and adequate handling of misfolded or otherwise aberrant proteins is of paramount
importance for maintaining protein homeostasis in cells. The ubiquitin/proteasome system …

Control of mammalian cell-based devices with genetic programming

KE Dray, HI Edelstein, KS Dreyer… - Current opinion in systems …, 2021 - Elsevier
Synthetic biology increasingly enables the construction of sophisticated functions in
mammalian cells. A particularly promising frontier combines concepts drawn from industrial …