Synthetic macromolecular switches for precision control of therapeutic cell functions

AP Teixeira, M Fussenegger - Nature Reviews Bioengineering, 2024 - nature.com
Cells rely on complex molecular networks to perceive and process external and internal
signals into tailored responses. These cellular abilities can be augmented and modified by …

Synthetic switches and regulatory circuits in plants

J Andres, T Blomeier, MD Zurbriggen - Plant Physiology, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Synthetic biology is an established but ever-growing interdisciplinary field of research
currently revolutionizing biomedicine studies and the biotech industry. The engineering of …

Synthetic circular RNA switches and circuits that control protein expression in mammalian cells

S Kameda, H Ohno, H Saito - Nucleic acids research, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Synthetic messenger RNA (mRNA) has been focused on as an emerging application for
mRNA-based therapies and vaccinations. Recently, synthetic circular RNAs (circRNAs) …

Efficient detection and purification of cell populations using synthetic microRNA switches

K Miki, K Endo, S Takahashi, S Funakoshi, I Takei… - Cell stem cell, 2015 - cell.com
Isolation of specific cell types, including pluripotent stem cell (PSC)-derived populations, is
frequently accomplished using cell surface antigens expressed by the cells of interest …

Synthetic RNA-based logic computation in mammalian cells

S Matsuura, H Ono, S Kawasaki, Y Kuang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Synthetic biological circuits are designed to regulate gene expressions to control cell
function. To date, these circuits often use DNA-delivery methods, which may lead to random …

N 1-Methylpseudouridine substitution enhances the performance of synthetic mRNA switches in cells

CJC Parr, S Wada, K Kotake, S Kameda… - Nucleic Acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Synthetic messenger RNA (mRNA) tools often use pseudouridine and 5-methyl cytidine as
substitutions for uridine and cytidine to avoid the immune response and cytotoxicity induced …

Synthetic switch to minimize CRISPR off-target effects by self-restricting Cas9 transcription and translation

CC Shen, MN Hsu, CW Chang, MW Lin… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
CRISPR/Cas9 is a powerful genome editing system but uncontrolled Cas9 nuclease
expression triggers off-target effects and even in vivo immune responses. Inspired by …

Systematic use of synthetic 5′-UTR RNA structures to tune protein translation improves yield and quality of complex proteins in mammalian cell factories

P Eisenhut, A Mebrahtu, M Moradi Barzadd… - Nucleic Acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Predictably regulating protein expression levels to improve recombinant protein production
has become an important tool, but is still rarely applied to engineer mammalian cells. We …

Cell-free protein synthesis as a prototyping platform for mammalian synthetic biology

MB Kopniczky, C Canavan, DW McClymont… - ACS synthetic …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The field of mammalian synthetic biology is expanding quickly, and technologies for
engineering large synthetic gene circuits are increasingly accessible. However, for …

Sensing intracellular signatures with synthetic mRNAs

H Ono, H Saito - RNA biology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The bottom-up assembly of biological components in synthetic biology has contributed to a
better understanding of natural phenomena and the development of new technologies for …