Synthetic biology in the clinic: engineering vaccines, diagnostics, and therapeutics

X Tan, JH Letendre, JJ Collins, WW Wong - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Synthetic biology is a design-driven discipline centered on engineering novel biological
functions through the discovery, characterization, and repurposing of molecular parts …

Inhibitors of bacterial immune systems: discovery, mechanisms and applications

D Mayo-Muñoz, R Pinilla-Redondo… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
To contend with the diversity and ubiquity of bacteriophages and other mobile genetic
elements, bacteria have developed an arsenal of immune defence mechanisms. Bacterial …

AcrPred: A hybrid optimization with enumerated machine learning algorithm to predict Anti-CRISPR proteins

FY Dao, ML Liu, W Su, H Lv, ZY Zhang, H Lin… - International journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
CRISPR-Cas, as a tool for gene editing, has received extensive attention in recent years.
Anti-CRISPR (Acr) proteins can inactivate the CRISPR-Cas defense system during …

PhageScope: a well-annotated bacteriophage database with automatic analyses and visualizations

RH Wang, S Yang, Z Liu, Y Zhang, X Wang… - Nucleic acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria or archaea. Understanding the diverse and
intricate genomic architectures of phages is essential to study microbial ecosystems and …

A versatile active learning workflow for optimization of genetic and metabolic networks

A Pandi, C Diehl, A Yazdizadeh Kharrazi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Optimization of biological networks is often limited by wet lab labor and cost, and the lack of
convenient computational tools. Here, we describe METIS, a versatile active machine …

Engineered bacteriophage therapeutics: rationale, challenges and future

M Łobocka, K Dąbrowska, A Górski - BioDrugs, 2021 - Springer
The current problems with increasing bacterial resistance to antibacterial therapies, resulting
in a growing frequency of incurable bacterial infections, necessitates the acceleration of …

Incorporating machine learning into established bioinformatics frameworks

N Auslander, AB Gussow, EV Koonin - International journal of molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The exponential growth of biomedical data in recent years has urged the application of
numerous machine learning techniques to address emerging problems in biology and …

CRISPRimmunity: an interactive web server for CRISPR-associated Important Molecular events and Modulators Used in geNome edIting Tool identifYing

F Zhou, X Yu, R Gan, K Ren, C Chen… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The CRISPR-Cas system is a highly adaptive and RNA-guided immune system found in
bacteria and archaea, which has applications as a genome editing tool and is a valuable …

Recent advances in improving gene-editing specificity through CRISPR–Cas9 nuclease engineering

X Huang, D Yang, J Zhang, J Xu, YE Chen - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
CRISPR–Cas9 is the state-of-the-art programmable genome-editing tool widely used in
many areas. For safe therapeutic applications in clinical medicine, its off-target effect must …

Prophage integration into CRISPR loci enables evasion of antiviral immunity in Streptococcus pyogenes

A Varble, E Campisi, CW Euler, P Maguin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
CRISPR loci are composed of short DNA repeats separated by sequences, known as
spacers, that match the genomes of invaders such as phages and plasmids. Spacers are …