Cell-free prototyping of AND-logic gates based on heterogeneous RNA activators

FX Lehr, M Hanst, M Vogel, J Kremer… - ACS synthetic …, 2019 - ACS Publications
RNA-based devices controlling gene expression bear great promise for synthetic biology, as
they offer many advantages such as short response times and light metabolic burden …

Dynamic control of aptamer–ligand activity using strand displacement reactions

J Lloyd, CH Tran, K Wadhwani… - ACS synthetic …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Nucleic acid aptamers are an expandable toolkit of sensors and regulators. To employ
aptamer regulators within nonequilibrium molecular networks, the aptamer–ligand …

Terminating DNA tile assembly with nanostructured caps

DK Agrawal, R Jiang, S Reinhart, AM Mohammed… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Precise control over the nucleation, growth, and termination of self-assembly processes is a
fundamental tool for controlling product yield and assembly dynamics. Mechanisms for …

A robust molecular network motif for period-doubling devices

C Cuba Samaniego, E Franco - ACS synthetic biology, 2018 - ACS Publications
Life is sustained by a variety of cyclic processes such as cell division, muscle contraction,
and neuron firing. The periodic signals powering these processes often direct a variety of …

Structural conditions for oscillations and multistationarity in aggregate monotone systems

F Blanchini, E Franco… - 2015 54th IEEE …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We provide necessary and sufficient structural conditions for multistationarity and
oscillations in aggregate monotone systems, defined as the interconnection of stable …

An analytical approach to bistable biological circuit discrimination using real algebraic geometry

D Siegal-Gaskins, E Franco… - Journal of The …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Biomolecular circuits with two distinct and stable steady states have been identified as
essential components in a wide range of biological networks, with a variety of mechanisms …

Structural analysis and control of dynamical networks

G Giordano - 2016 - air.uniud.it
A dynamical network is comprised of a finite number of subsystems, each having its own
dynamics, which interact according to a given interconnection topology. Dynamical networks …

Design of a molecular clock with RNA-mediated regulation

F Blanchini, CC Samaniego, E Franco… - … IEEE Conference on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We design a new negative feedback molecular oscillator and study its properties analytically
and numerically. This oscillator is composed of two synthetic genes interconnected through …

Design of a bistable network using the CRISPR/Cas system

CC Samaniego, HKK Subramanian… - 2017 IEEE Conference …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The CRISPR/Cas-based genome editing system has provided a powerful tool for control of
gene activity within cells. Here, we model an experimentally plausible architecture …

A bistable biomolecular network based on monomeric inhibition reactions

V Mardanlou, CC Samaniego… - 2015 54th IEEE …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We model an experimentally plausible implementation of a synthetic RNA-based
biochemical toggle switch proposed in previous work by the authors. We show that the …