[HTML][HTML] A renaissance in RNA synthetic biology: new mechanisms, applications and tools for the future

J Chappell, KE Watters, MK Takahashi… - Current opinion in …, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•We review recent progress in RNA synthetic biology.•New advances in synthetic
RNA regulator design have created high-performing/functioning parts.•New generation of …

Regulatory non-coding sRNAs in bacterial metabolic pathway engineering

AN Leistra, NC Curtis, LM Contreras - Metabolic engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) are versatile and powerful controllers of gene expression that
have been increasingly linked to cellular metabolism and phenotype. In bacteria, identified …

Synthetic biology of small RNAs and riboswitches

JK Villa, Y Su, LM Contreras… - Microbiology …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
In bacteria and archaea, small RNAs (sRNAs) regulate complex networks through antisense
interactions with target mRNAs in trans, and riboswitches regulate gene expression in cis …

Noncoding RNAs: biology and applications—a Keystone Symposia report

J Cable, E Heard, T Hirose, KV Prasanth… - Annals of the new …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The human transcriptome contains many types of noncoding RNAs, which rival the number
of protein‐coding species. From long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) that are over 200 …

Development of Design Rules for Reliable Antisense RNA Behavior in E. coli

A Hoynes-O'Connor, TS Moon - ACS synthetic biology, 2016 - ACS Publications
A key driver of synthetic biology is the development of designable genetic parts with
predictable behaviors that can be quickly implemented in complex genetic systems …

Design rules of synthetic non-coding RNAs in bacteria

YJ Lee, TS Moon - Methods, 2018 - Elsevier
One of the long-term goals of synthetic biology is to develop designable genetic parts with
predictable behaviors that can be utilized to implement diverse cellular functions. The …

High-throughput in vivo mapping of RNA accessible interfaces to identify functional sRNA binding sites

MK Mihailovic, J Vazquez-Anderson, Y Li, V Fry… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Herein we introduce a high-throughput method, INTERFACE, to reveal the capacity of
contiguous RNA nucleotides to establish in vivo intermolecular RNA interactions for the …

Multilevel regulation of bacterial gene expression with the combined STAR and antisense RNA system

YJ Lee, SJ Kim, TS Moon - ACS synthetic biology, 2018 - ACS Publications
Synthetic small RNA regulators have emerged as a versatile tool to predictably control
bacterial gene expression. Owing to their simple design principles, small size, and highly …

Strain engineering via regulatory noncoding RNAs: not a one-blueprint-fits-all

SH Cho, K Haning, LM Contreras - Current Opinion in Chemical …, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•Regulatory noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) are powerful tools in metabolic
engineering.•Adjusting expression of natural ncRNAs allows regulation of multiple …

Systematic probing of the bacterial RNA structurome to reveal new functions

Z Ignatova, F Narberhaus - Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•NGS-based RNA probing enables transcriptome-wide structurome
determination.•RNA structuromics reveals insights into RNA-structure-function …