Synthetically engineered microbial scavengers for enhanced bioremediation

KM Tran, HM Lee, TD Thai, J Shen, S Eyun… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Microbial bioremediation has gained attention as a cheap, efficient, and sustainable
technology to manage the increasing environmental pollution. Since microorganisms in …

Exploring the synthetic biology potential of bacteriophages for engineering non-model bacteria

EM Lammens, PI Nikel, R Lavigne - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Non-model bacteria like Pseudomonas putida, Lactococcus lactis and other species have
unique and versatile metabolisms, offering unique opportunities for Synthetic Biology …

Engineered bacterial orthogonal DNA replication system for continuous evolution

R Tian, R Zhao, H Guo, K Yan, C Wang, C Lu… - Nature Chemical …, 2023 - nature.com
Continuous evolution can generate biomolecules for synthetic biology and enable
evolutionary investigation. The orthogonal DNA replication system (OrthoRep) in yeast can …

A deep learning approach to programmable RNA switches

NM Angenent-Mari, AS Garruss, LR Soenksen… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Engineered RNA elements are programmable tools capable of detecting small molecules,
proteins, and nucleic acids. Predicting the behavior of these synthetic biology components …

Pervasive regulatory functions of mRNA structure revealed by high-resolution SHAPE probing

AM Mustoe, S Busan, GM Rice, CE Hajdin… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Summary mRNAs can fold into complex structures that regulate gene expression. Resolving
such structures de novo has remained challenging and has limited our understanding of the …

Engineered triply orthogonal pyrrolysyl–tRNA synthetase/tRNA pairs enable the genetic encoding of three distinct non-canonical amino acids

DL Dunkelmann, JCW Willis, AT Beattie, JW Chin - Nature chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Expanding and reprogramming the genetic code of cells for the incorporation of multiple
distinct non-canonical amino acids (ncAAs), and the encoded biosynthesis of non-canonical …

A 68-codon genetic code to incorporate four distinct non-canonical amino acids enabled by automated orthogonal mRNA design

DL Dunkelmann, SB Oehm, AT Beattie, JW Chin - Nature chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
Orthogonal (O) ribosome-mediated translation of O-mRNAs enables the incorporation of up
to three distinct non-canonical amino acids (ncAAs) into proteins in Escherichia coli (E. coli) …

An automated model test system for systematic development and improvement of gene expression models

AC Reis, HM Salis - ACS synthetic biology, 2020 - ACS Publications
Gene expression models greatly accelerate the engineering of synthetic metabolic pathways
and genetic circuits by predicting sequence-function relationships and reducing trial-and …

Discovery of a biotin synthase that utilizes an auxiliary 4Fe–5S cluster for sulfur insertion

JC Lachowicz, D Lennox-Hvenekilde… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Biotin synthase (BioB) is a member of the Radical SAM superfamily of enzymes that
catalyzes the terminal step of biotin (vitamin B7) biosynthesis, in which it inserts a sulfur …

Systematic quantification of sequence and structural determinants controlling mRNA stability in bacterial operons

DP Cetnar, HM Salis - ACS Synthetic Biology, 2021 - ACS Publications
mRNA degradation is a central process that affects all gene expression levels, and yet, the
determinants that control mRNA decay rates remain poorly characterized. Here, we applied …