Principles of genetic circuit design

JAN Brophy, CA Voigt - Nature methods, 2014 - nature.com
Cells navigate environments, communicate and build complex patterns by initiating gene
expression in response to specific signals. Engineers seek to harness this capability to …

Customizing cell signaling using engineered genetic logic circuits

B Wang, M Buck - Trends in microbiology, 2012 - cell.com
Cells live in an ever-changing environment and continuously sense, process and react to
environmental signals using their inherent signaling and gene regulatory networks …

Engineering modular and orthogonal genetic logic gates for robust digital-like synthetic biology

B Wang, RI Kitney, N Joly, M Buck - Nature communications, 2011 - nature.com
Modular and orthogonal genetic logic gates are essential for building robust biologically
based digital devices to customize cell signalling in synthetic biology. Here we constructed …

Tuning the dynamic range of bacterial promoters regulated by ligand-inducible transcription factors

Y Chen, JML Ho, DL Shis, C Gupta, J Long… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
One challenge for synthetic biologists is the predictable tuning of genetic circuit regulatory
components to elicit desired outputs. Gene expression driven by ligand-inducible …

Modular control of multiple pathways using engineered orthogonal T7 polymerases

K Temme, R Hill, TH Segall-Shapiro… - Nucleic acids …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Synthetic genetic sensors and circuits enable programmable control over the timing and
conditions of gene expression. They are being increasingly incorporated into the control of …

Modular, multi-input transcriptional logic gating with orthogonal LacI/GalR family chimeras

DL Shis, F Hussain, S Meinhardt… - ACS synthetic …, 2014 - ACS Publications
In prokaryotes, the construction of synthetic, multi-input promoters is constrained by the
number of transcription factors that can simultaneously regulate a single promoter. This …

Bacteria-based AND logic gate: a decision-making and self-powered biosensor

Z Li, MA Rosenbaum, A Venkataraman… - Chemical …, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
We developed a bacteria-based AND logic gate using a Pseudomonas aeruginosa lasI/rhlI
double mutant with two quorum-sensing signaling molecules as the input signals. We …

Artificial cell-cell communication as an emerging tool in synthetic biology applications

S Hennig, G Rödel, K Ostermann - Journal of biological engineering, 2015 - Springer
Cell-cell communication is a widespread phenomenon in nature, ranging from bacterial
quorum sensing and fungal pheromone communication to cellular crosstalk in multicellular …

Reservoir computing using DNA oscillators

X Liu, KK Parhi - ACS Synthetic Biology, 2022 - ACS Publications
This paper presents novel implementations for reservoir computing (RC) using DNA
oscillators. An RC system consists of two parts: reservoir and readout layer. The reservoir …

Programming cells: towards an automated 'Genetic Compiler'

K Clancy, CA Voigt - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2010 - Elsevier
One of the visions of synthetic biology is to be able to program cells using a language that is
similar to that used to program computers or robotics. For large genetic programs, keeping …