Enabling technology and core theory of synthetic biology

XE Zhang, C Liu, J Dai, Y Yuan, C Gao, Y Feng… - Science China Life …, 2023 - Springer
Synthetic biology provides a new paradigm for life science research (“build to learn”) and
opens the future journey of biotechnology (“build to use”). Here, we discuss advances of …

Living synthelectronics: A New Era for bioelectronics powered by synthetic biology

J Sun, R Yang, Q Li, R Zhu, Y Jiang, L Zang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Bioelectronics, which converges biology and electronics, has attracted great attention due to
their vital applications in human–machine interfaces. While traditional bioelectronic devices …

Designing biological compartmentalization

AH Chen, PA Silver - Trends in cell biology, 2012 - cell.com
Intracellular organization is a key factor in cell metabolism. Cells have evolved various
organizational systems to solve the challenges of toxic pathway intermediates, competing …

A Basis Set of de Novo Coiled-Coil Peptide Oligomers for Rational Protein Design and Synthetic Biology

JM Fletcher, AL Boyle, M Bruning, GJ Bartlett… - ACS synthetic …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Protein engineering, chemical biology, and synthetic biology would benefit from toolkits of
peptide and protein components that could be exchanged reliably between systems while …

A designed supramolecular protein assembly with in vivo enzymatic activity

WJ Song, FA Tezcan - Science, 2014 - science.org
The generation of new enzymatic activities has mainly relied on repurposing the interiors of
preexisting protein folds because of the challenge in designing functional, three …

Bioengineering of plant (tri)terpenoids: from metabolic engineering of plants to synthetic biology in vivo and in vitro

T Moses, J Pollier, JM Thevelein… - New Phytologist, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Terpenoids constitute a large and diverse class of natural products that serve many
functions in nature. Most of the tens of thousands of the discovered terpenoids are …

Bimodal protein solubility distribution revealed by an aggregation analysis of the entire ensemble of Escherichia coli proteins

T Niwa, BW Ying, K Saito, WZ Jin… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
Protein folding often competes with intermolecular aggregation, which in most cases
irreversibly impairs protein function, as exemplified by the formation of inclusion bodies …

Formation of droplet networks that function in aqueous environments

G Villar, AJ Heron, H Bayley - Nature nanotechnology, 2011 - nature.com
Aqueous droplets in oil that are coated with lipid monolayers and joined through interface
bilayers, are useful for biophysical measurements on membrane proteins,,,. Functional …

Multifunctional materials through modular protein engineering

RL DiMarco, SC Heilshorn - Advanced Materials, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The diversity of potential applications for protein‐engineered materials has undergone
profound recent expansion through a rapid increase in the library of domains that have been …

Amphiphilic peptides and their cross-disciplinary role as building blocks for nanoscience

S Cavalli, F Albericio, A Kros - Chemical Society Reviews, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Peptides are particularly attractive as molecular building blocks in the bottom-up fabrication
of supramolecular structures based on self-assembly and have potential in many important …