Synthetic DNA synthesis and assembly: putting the synthetic in synthetic biology

RA Hughes, AD Ellington - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2017 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
The chemical synthesis of DNA oligonucleotides and their assembly into synthons, genes,
circuits, and even entire genomes by gene synthesis methods has become an enabling …

Large-scale de novo DNA synthesis: technologies and applications

S Kosuri, GM Church - Nature methods, 2014 - nature.com
For over 60 years, the synthetic production of new DNA sequences has helped researchers
understand and engineer biology. Here we summarize methods and caveats for the de novo …

Synthetic biology—putting engineering into biology

M Heinemann, S Panke - Bioinformatics, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Synthetic biology is interpreted as the engineering-driven building of increasingly complex
biological entities for novel applications. Encouraged by progress in the design of artificial …

Genome engineering

PA Carr, GM Church - Nature biotechnology, 2009 - nature.com
For more than 50 years, those engineering genetic material have pursued increasingly
challenging targets. During that time, the tools and resources available to the genetic …

[HTML][HTML] Java web tools for PCR, in silico PCR, and oligonucleotide assembly and analysis

R Kalendar, D Lee, AH Schulman - Genomics, 2011 - Elsevier
The polymerase chain reaction is fundamental to molecular biology and is the most
important practical molecular technique for the research laboratory. We have developed and …

Fumarase: a mitochondrial metabolic enzyme and a cytosolic/nuclear component of the DNA damage response

O Yogev, O Yogev, E Singer, E Shaulian… - PLoS …, 2010 - journals.plos.org
In eukaryotes, fumarase (FH in human) is a well-known tricarboxylic-acid-cycle enzyme in
the mitochondrial matrix. However, conserved from yeast to humans is a cytosolic …

PCR-based accurate synthesis of long DNA sequences

AS Xiong, QH Yao, RH Peng, H Duan, X Li, HQ Fan… - Nature protocols, 2006 - nature.com
Here we describe a simple and rapid method for assembly and PCR-based accurate
synthesis (PAS) of long DNA sequences. The PAS protocol involves the following five …

In vitro synthesis of gene-length single-stranded DNA

R Veneziano, TR Shepherd, S Ratanalert, L Bellou… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) increases the likelihood of homology directed repair with
reduced cellular toxicity. However, ssDNA synthesis strategies are limited by the maximum …

Functional hybrid rubisco enzymes with plant small subunits and algal large subunits: Engineered rbcS cDNA for expression in chlamydomonas*♦

T Genkov, M Meyer, H Griffiths, RJ Spreitzer - Journal of Biological …, 2010 - ASBMB
There has been much interest in the chloroplast-encoded large subunit of ribulose-1, 5-
bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) as a target for engineering an increase in …

Comparison of five protein engineering strategies for stabilizing an α/β-hydrolase

BJ Jones, HY Lim, J Huang, RJ Kazlauskas - Biochemistry, 2017 - ACS Publications
A review of the previous stabilization of α/β-hydrolase fold enzymes revealed many different
strategies, but no comparison of strategies on the same enzyme. For this reason, we …