Negative autoregulation matches production and demand in synthetic transcriptional networks

E Franco, G Giordano, PO Forsberg… - ACS synthetic …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We propose a negative feedback architecture that regulates activity of artificial genes, or
“genelets”, to meet their output downstream demand, achieving robustness with respect to …

Noise propagation in synthetic gene circuits for metabolic control

DA Oyarzun, JB Lugagne, GBV Stan - ACS synthetic biology, 2015 - ACS Publications
Dynamic control of enzyme expression can be an effective strategy to engineer robust
metabolic pathways. It allows a synthetic pathway to self-regulate in response to changes in …

Synthetic negative feedback circuits using engineered small RNAs

CL Kelly, AWK Harris, H Steel, EJ Hancock… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Negative feedback is known to enable biological and man-made systems to perform reliably
in the face of uncertainties and disturbances. To date, synthetic biological feedback circuits …

Expression optimization and synthetic gene networks in cell-free systems

DK Karig, S Iyer, ML Simpson… - Nucleic acids …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Synthetic biology offers great promise to a variety of applications through the forward
engineering of biological function. Most efforts in this field have focused on employing living …

RNA compensation: a positive feedback insulation strategy for RNA-based transcription networks

B Liu, C Cuba Samaniego, M Bennett… - ACS Synthetic …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The lack of signaling modularity of biomolecular systems poses major challenges toward
engineering complex networks. Directional signaling between an upstream and a …

Engineering a functional small RNA negative autoregulation network with model-guided design

CY Hu, MK Takahashi, Y Zhang, JB Lucks - ACS synthetic biology, 2018 - ACS Publications
RNA regulators are powerful components of the synthetic biology toolbox. Here, we expand
the repertoire of synthetic gene networks built from these regulators by constructing a …

Computational design of synthetic regulatory networks from a genetic library to characterize the designability of dynamical behaviors

G Rodrigo, J Carrera, A Jaramillo - Nucleic acids research, 2011 - academic.oup.com
The engineering of synthetic gene networks has mostly relied on the assembly of few
characterized regulatory elements using rational design principles. It is of outmost …

Synthetic control systems for high performance gene expression in mammalian cells

G Lillacci, Y Benenson, M Khammash - Nucleic acids research, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Tunable induction of gene expression is an essential tool in biology and biotechnology. In
spite of that, current induction systems often exhibit unpredictable behavior and performance …

Mathematical modeling of RNA-based architectures for closed loop control of gene expression

DK Agrawal, X Tang, A Westbrook… - ACS synthetic …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Feedback allows biological systems to control gene expression precisely and reliably, even
in the presence of uncertainty, by sensing and processing environmental changes. Taking …

Regulatory dynamics of synthetic gene networks with positive feedback

YT Maeda, M Sano - Journal of molecular biology, 2006 - Elsevier
Biological processes are governed by complex networks ranging from gene regulation to
signal transduction. Positive feedback is a key element in such networks. The regulation …