Transcription control engineering and applications in synthetic biology

MD Engstrom, BF Pfleger - Synthetic and systems biotechnology, 2017 - Elsevier
In synthetic biology, researchers assemble biological components in new ways to produce
systems with practical applications. One of these practical applications is control of the flow …

Promoter engineering: recent advances in controlling transcription at the most fundamental level

J Blazeck, HS Alper - Biotechnology journal, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Synthetic control of gene expression is critical for metabolic engineering efforts. Specifically,
precise control of key pathway enzymes (heterologous or native) can help maximize product …

Synthetic biology: tools to design microbes for the production of chemicals and fuels

SW Seo, J Yang, BE Min, S Jang, JH Lim, HG Lim… - Biotechnology …, 2013 - Elsevier
The engineering of biological systems to achieve specific purposes requires design tools
that function in a predictable and quantitative manner. Recent advances in the field of …

Contemporary tools for regulating gene expression in bacteria

R Kent, N Dixon - Trends in Biotechnology, 2020 - cell.com
Insights from novel mechanistic paradigms in gene expression control have led to the
development of new gene expression systems for bioproduction, control, and sensing …

Tunable promoters in synthetic and systems biology

T Dehli, C Solem, PR Jensen - Reprogramming microbial metabolic …, 2012 - Springer
Synthetic and systems biologists need standardized, modular and orthogonal tools yielding
predictable functions in vivo. In systems biology such tools are needed to quantitatively …

Advances and current limitations in transcript-level control of gene expression

JM Leavitt, HS Alper - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•Transcriptional engineering provides tight control of gene expression in
eukaryotes.•Synthetic promoters provide iterative improvements in strength.•Orthogonal …

Recent advances in mammalian synthetic biology—design of synthetic transgene control networks

M Tigges, M Fussenegger - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2009 - Elsevier
Capitalizing on an era of functional genomic research, systems biology offers a systematic
quantitative analysis of existing biological systems thereby providing the molecular inventory …

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 …

Diversity, versatility and complexity of bacterial gene regulation mechanisms: opportunities and drawbacks for applications in synthetic biology

I Bervoets, D Charlier - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Gene expression occurs in two essential steps: transcription and translation. In bacteria, the
two processes are tightly coupled in time and space, and highly regulated. Tight regulation …

Post-translational tools expand the scope of synthetic biology

EJ Olson, JJ Tabor - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2012 - Elsevier
Synthetic biology is improving our understanding of and ability to control living organisms.
To date, most progress has been made by engineering gene expression. However …