Oligo pools as an affordable source of synthetic DNA for cost‐effective library construction in protein‐and metabolic pathway engineering

BP Kuiper, RC Prins, S Billerbeck - ChemBioChem, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The construction of custom libraries is critical for rational protein engineering and directed
evolution. Array‐synthesized oligo pools of thousands of user‐defined sequences (up to∼ …

Rapid biosensor development using plant hormone receptors as reprogrammable scaffolds

J Beltrán, PJ Steiner, M Bedewitz, S Wei… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
A general method to generate biosensors for user-defined molecules could provide
detection tools for a wide range of biological applications. Here, we describe an approach …

Engineering plant biosensors: recent advances in design and applications

O Castaneda-Méndez, S Akter, J Beltrán - Current Opinion in …, 2025 - Elsevier
Highlights•The development of synthetic plant biosensors is progressing in model
plants.•More orthogonal protein scaffolds are needed to detect structurally diverse …

One-shot identification of SARS-CoV-2 S RBD escape mutants using yeast screening

IM Francino-Urdaniz, PJ Steiner, MB Kirby, F Zhao… - Cell Reports, 2021 - cell.com
The potential emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
spike (S) escape mutants is a threat to the efficacy of existing vaccines and neutralizing …

Apoptolidin family glycomacrolides target leukemia through inhibition of ATP synthase

BJ Reisman, H Guo, HE Ramsey, MT Wright… - Nature chemical …, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer cells have long been recognized to exhibit unique bioenergetic requirements. The
apoptolidin family of glycomacrolides are distinguished by their selective cytotoxicity towards …

Antibody-directed evolution reveals a mechanism for enhanced neutralization at the HIV-1 fusion peptide site

BB Banach, S Pletnev, AS Olia, K Xu, B Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The HIV-1 fusion peptide (FP) represents a promising vaccine target, but global FP
sequence diversity among circulating strains has limited anti-FP antibodies to~ 60 …

An integrated technology for quantitative wide mutational scanning of human antibody Fab libraries

BM Petersen, MB Kirby, KM Chrispens, OM Irvin… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Antibodies are engineerable quantities in medicine. Learning antibody molecular
recognition would enable the in silico design of high affinity binders against nearly any …

SUNi mutagenesis: Scalable and uniform nicking for efficient generation of variant libraries

TL Mighell, I Toledano, B Lehner - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Multiplexed assays of variant effects (MAVEs) have made possible the functional
assessment of all possible mutations to genes and regulatory sequences. A core pillar of the …

Standardizing cassette‐based deep mutagenesis by Golden Gate assembly

N Daffern, IM Francino‐Urdaniz… - Biotechnology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Protocols for the construction of large, deeply mutagenized protein encoding libraries via
Golden Gate assembly of synthetic DNA cassettes employ disparate, system‐specific …

High-Throughput DNA FISH (hiFISH)

E Finn, T Misteli, G Pegoraro - Spatial Genome Organization: Methods and …, 2022 - Springer
High-throughput DNA fluorescence in situ hybridization (hiFISH) combines multicolor
combinatorial DNA FISH staining with automated image acquisition and analysis to visualize …