Advances in promoter engineering: novel applications and predefined transcriptional control

AP Cazier, J Blazeck - Biotechnology Journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Synthetic biology continues to progress by relying on more robust tools for transcriptional
control, of which promoters are the most fundamental component. Numerous studies have …

Logomaker: beautiful sequence logos in Python

A Tareen, JB Kinney - Bioinformatics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Sequence logos are visually compelling ways of illustrating the biological properties of DNA,
RNA and protein sequences, yet it is currently difficult to generate and customize such logos …

Figure 1 theory meets figure 2 experiments in the study of gene expression

R Phillips, NM Belliveau, G Chure… - Annual review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
It is tempting to believe that we now own the genome. The ability to read and rewrite it at will
has ushered in a stunning period in the history of science. Nonetheless, there is an Achilles' …

Genome-wide promoter responses to CRISPR perturbations of regulators reveal regulatory networks in Escherichia coli

Y Han, W Li, A Filko, J Li, F Zhang - Nature communications, 2023 - nature.com
Elucidating genome-scale regulatory networks requires a comprehensive collection of gene
expression profiles, yet measuring gene expression responses for every transcription factor …

Single-channel selection for EEG-based emotion recognition using brain rhythm sequencing

JW Li, S Barma, PU Mak, F Chen, C Li… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, electroencephalography (EEG) signals have shown great potential for emotion
recognition. Nevertheless, multichannel EEG recordings lead to redundant data …

MAVE-NN: learning genotype-phenotype maps from multiplex assays of variant effect

A Tareen, M Kooshkbaghi, A Posfai, WT Ireland… - Genome biology, 2022 - Springer
Multiplex assays of variant effect (MAVEs) are a family of methods that includes deep
mutational scanning experiments on proteins and massively parallel reporter assays on …

Cell-free gene-regulatory network engineering with synthetic transcription factors

Z Swank, N Laohakunakorn… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Gene-regulatory networks are ubiquitous in nature and critical for bottom-up engineering of
synthetic networks. Transcriptional repression is a fundamental function that can be tuned at …

Deciphering the regulatory genome of Escherichia coli, one hundred promoters at a time

WT Ireland, SM Beeler, E Flores-Bautista, NS McCarty… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Advances in DNA sequencing have revolutionized our ability to read genomes. However,
even in the most well-studied of organisms, the bacterium Escherichia coli, for≈ 65% of …

De novo design of programmable inducible promoters

X Liu, STP Gupta, D Bhimsaria, JL Reed… - Nucleic Acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Ligand-responsive allosteric transcription factors (aTF) play a vital role in genetic circuits
and high-throughput screening because they transduce biochemical signals into gene …

Multiplexed characterization of rationally designed promoter architectures deconstructs combinatorial logic for IPTG-inducible systems

TC Yu, WL Liu, MS Brinck, JE Davis, J Shek… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
A crucial step towards engineering biological systems is the ability to precisely tune the
genetic response to environmental stimuli. In the case of Escherichia coli inducible …