Programmable chemical reaction networks: emulating regulatory functions in living cells using a bottom-up approach

HWH van Roekel, BJHM Rosier, LHH Meijer… - Chemical Society …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Living cells are able to produce a wide variety of biological responses when subjected to
biochemical stimuli. It has become apparent that these biological responses are regulated …

Programming dissipation systems by DNA timer for temporally regulating enzyme catalysis and nanostructure assembly

Z Qin, Y Liu, L Zhang, J Liu, X Su - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Live cells precisely control their temporal pattern in energy dissipative processes such as
catalysis and assembly. Here, we demonstrate a DNA-based artificial dissipative …

Flap endonuclease 1-assisted DNA walkers for sensitively and specifically sensing ctDNAs

X Cheng, Y Bao, S Liang, B Li, Y Liu, H Wu… - Analytical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
DNA walkers have shown superior performance in biosensing due to their programmability
to design molecular walking behaviors with specific responses to different biological targets …

High-resolution mapping of bifurcations in nonlinear biochemical circuits

AJ Genot, A Baccouche, R Sieskind, N Aubert-Kato… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Analog molecular circuits can exploit the nonlinear nature of biochemical reaction networks
to compute low-precision outputs with fewer resources than digital circuits. This analog …

Boosting functionality of synthetic DNA circuits with tailored deactivation

K Montagne, G Gines, T Fujii, Y Rondelez - Nature communications, 2016 - nature.com
Molecular programming takes advantage of synthetic nucleic acid biochemistry to assemble
networks of reactions, in vitro, with the double goal of better understanding cellular …

Modelling cell-free RNA and protein synthesis with minimal systems

A Doerr, E De Reus, P Van Nies… - Physical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
DNA-guided cell-free protein synthesis using a minimal set of purified components has
emerged as a versatile platform in constructive biology. The E. coli-based PURE (protein …

Bottom‐Up Construction of an Adaptive Enzymatic Reaction Network

B Helwig, B van Sluijs, AA Pogodaev… - Angewandte …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The reproduction of emergent behaviors in nature using reaction networks is an important
objective in synthetic biology and systems chemistry. Herein, the first experimental …

Nicking enzyme-controlled toehold regulation for DNA logic circuits

L Pan, Z Wang, Y Li, F Xu, Q Zhang, C Zhang - Nanoscale, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
DNA strand displacement is widely used in DNA-related nanoengineering for its remarkable
specificity and predictability. We report a nicking enzyme-assisted mechanism to regulate …

Programmed mechano-chemical coupling in reaction-diffusion active matter

A Senoussi, JC Galas, A Estevez-Torres - Science Advances, 2021 - science.org
Embryo morphogenesis involves a complex combination of self-organization mechanisms
that generate a great diversity of patterns. However, classical in vitro patterning experiments …

Design and analysis of compact DNA strand displacement circuits for analog computation using autocatalytic amplifiers

T Song, S Garg, R Mokhtar, H Bui, J Reif - ACS synthetic biology, 2018 - ACS Publications
A main goal in DNA computing is to build DNA circuits to compute designated functions
using a minimal number of DNA strands. Here, we propose a novel architecture to build …