column-free protein purification with an aggregation tag
Discovery and Identification of a Novel Tag of HlyA60 for Protein Active Aggregate Formation in Escherichia coli
Cultivating the uncultured:
Harnessing the “sandwich agar plate” approach to isolate heme-dependent bacteria from marine sediment
"our method allows for the interaction between isolates and helper organisms throughout the incubation/ isolation process"
The minimum energy required to build a cell
"The energy for synthesising the genome, transcriptome, proteome, and lipid bilayer of four cell types: Escherichia coli, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, an average mammalian cell and JCVI-syn3A were estimated."
Mobile genetic element-based gene editing and genome engineering: Recent advances and applications
"Characteristics of the 4 types of mobile genetic elements (DNA transposons, retrotransposons, retrons, and CRISPR-associated transposons)"
Minireview: Engineering evolution to reconfigure phenotypic traits in microbes for biotechnological applications
"...review covers the representative studies among the 700 ALE studies, outlining key ideas, principles, and mechanisms..."
Improving the soluble expression of difficult-to-express proteins in prokaryotic expression system via protein engineering and synthetic biology strategies
RNA modifying enzymes shape tRNA biogenesis and function
"we described how tRNA modifying enzymes affect tRNAs at all stages of the tRNA lifecycle by modifying and folding tRNAs."
High temperature delays and low temperature accelerates evolution of a new protein phenotype
"YFP from GFP evolved most slowly at high temperature and most rapidly at low temperature"
genetically encoded fluorescent temperature sensor
Extremely Sensitive Genetically Encoded Temperature Indicator Enabling Measurement at the Organelle Level
Evolution and stability of complex microbial communities driven by trade-offs
"two distant strains in phenotypic space can coexist in the same environment, but only if one strain creates an ecological niche for the other that it cannot itself occupy."
"programmable DNA conjugation between specific cells through synthetic cell-cell adhesion"
A whole-cell platform for discovering synthetic cell adhesion molecules in bacteria
We are excited to share our review paper on materials design by synthetic biology. We discuss both top-down and bottom-up approaches to engineering living materials composed of microbial consortia. More exciting research is coming soon.
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Ultrahigh-throughput screening-assisted in vivo directed evolution for enzyme engineering
"an in vivo continuous evolution system was developed based on DNA Pol I and a temperature-sensitive variant of the mismatch repair protein MutS in E. coli"
Tunable translation-level CRISPR interference by dCas13 and engineered gRNA in bacteria
"The difference between transcription-level control and translation-level control toward polycistronic gene repression"
"bacteria-derived membrane vesicles deliver DNA and iron to microalgae, promoting the growth of the iron-depleted algal cultures"
Algicidal bacteria-derived membrane vesicles as shuttles mediating cross-kingdom interactions between bacteria and algae
"Expression of mammalian caveolin-1 in E. coli induces the formation of nanovesicles (caveosphere), which accumulate in the cytoplasm and can be purified. The caveospheres can be functionally decorated via caveolin fusion proteins for targeted delivery and tumor killing."
Optogenetic Control of Bacterial Cell-Cell Adhesion Dynamics: Unraveling the Influence on Biofilm Architecture and Functionality
"photoswitchable adhesins between bacteria"
"we create an artificial biosynthetic pathway that controls the abundance of the toxic RuBisCO substrate RuBP and converts RuBisCO-derived 3PG to glycerate, which we quantitatively monitor using an evolved transcriptional biosensor."
RuBisCO is one of the most exciting bioengineering targets, but studying and improving its catalytic abilities can be very challenging. To address this, we came up with an intracellular strategy to monitor and evolve RuBisCO at scale! Check out our new preprint below🪴
"inserts and linear vectors was mixed at a molar ratio of approximately 3:1 and treated with 0.5 U of T5 exonuclease at 0°C for 5 min. Then, the mixture was transformed into E. coli to generate recombinant plasmids."
Compartmentalization of pathway sequential enzymes into synthetic protein compartments for metabolic flux optimization in Escherichia coli
"The recruitment of pathway enzymes into synthetic organelles"
Induction of bacterial expression at the mRNA level by light
"combining transcriptional and translational optogenetic tools increases light-induced gene expression >1000-fold."
"a method for recovering complete viral genomes from complex environmental samples"
Targeted whole-genome recovery of single viral species in a complex environmental sample
5′UTR G-quadruplex structure enhances translation in size dependent manner
"We found that the presence of the G-quadruplex in the 5′UTR led to enhanced translation both in vitro and in E. coli."
"autoregulation can also be leveraged to promote the design of evolutionarily robust synthetic gene circuits"
Competition and evolutionary selection among core regulatory motifs in gene expression control
"characterizations of two mutational paths in unprecedented details (23 intermediates), we unveiled a molecular picture of an evolutionary bifurcation, a phenomenon in which such a mutational event can trigger the segregation of two trajectories"
Systems and Methods for Continuous Evolution of Enzymes
"we summarize the working mechanisms of recently developed continuous evolution strategies, discuss examples of their applications focusing on enzyme evolution"
A polycistronic system for multiplexed and precalibrated expression of multigene pathways in fungi
"We identify a 9-bp nucleotide sequence that enables the efficient translation of synthetic bicistronic cassettes in yeast and filamentous fungi."
Two horizontally acquired bacterial genes steer the exceptionally efficient and flexible nitrogenous waste cycling in whiteflies
"Hijacking bacterial uricolytic enzyme genes reveals why fertilizer applications often leads to whitefly outbreaks"
A novel nucleic acid linker for multi-gene expression enhances plant and animal synthetic biology
"we discovered a 9bp linker for polycistronic gene expression in yeast. Here, we validate polycistronic expression in the maize protoplast & human T cells."
Understanding a protein fold: the physics, chemistry, and biology of α-helical coiled coils
"what are the sequence-to-structure relationships that govern coiled-coil folding and assembly, and how to design de novo coiled coils with confidence?"
Design of microbial catalysts for two-stage processes
"A two-stage bioprocess that separates the cell growth phase from the product synthesis phase can resolve the tradeoff between growth & product synthesis"
SynBioStrainFinder: A microbial strain database of manually curated CRISPR/Cas genetic manipulation system information for biomanufacturing
recommend CRISPR tools for microbial strains
CRISPR-powered RNA sensing in vivo
4 categories of RNA sensors: programmable reassembly of split sgRNA, RNA-triggered RNA processing and protein cleavage, miRNA-triggered RNA interference, strand displacement reactions
"InducTn-seq, which leverages inducible mutagenesis for temporal control of Tn5 transposition. InducTn-seq generates millions of transposon mutants from a single colony."
The diverse structural modes of tRNA binding and recognition
"it's not surprising that tRNAs are also used in other cellular pathways and exploited by viruses and pathogens, we summarize the examples of tRNA-like molecules and tRNA-derived fragments."
Convenient synthesis and delivery of a megabase-scale designer accessory chromosome empower biosynthetic capacity
"efficient assembly and delivery of a de novo designed 1.024 Mb synthetic accessory chromosome"