Recent trends in biocatalysis

D Yi, T Bayer, CPS Badenhorst, S Wu… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Biocatalysis has undergone revolutionary progress in the past century. Benefited by the
integration of multidisciplinary technologies, natural enzymatic reactions are constantly …

Allostery in its many disguises: from theory to applications

SJ Wodak, E Paci, NV Dokholyan, IN Berezovsky… - Structure, 2019 - cell.com
Allosteric regulation plays an important role in many biological processes, such as signal
transduction, transcriptional regulation, and metabolism. Allostery is rooted in the …

Unified rational protein engineering with sequence-based deep representation learning

EC Alley, G Khimulya, S Biswas, M AlQuraishi… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Rational protein engineering requires a holistic understanding of protein function. Here, we
apply deep learning to unlabeled amino-acid sequences to distill the fundamental features …

Spatiotemporal control of engineered bacteria to express interferon-γ by focused ultrasound for tumor immunotherapy

Y Chen, M Du, Z Yuan, Z Chen, F Yan - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Bacteria-based tumor therapy has recently attracted wide attentions due to its unique
capability in targeting tumors and preferentially colonizing the core area of the tumor …

Escherichia coli “Marionette” strains with 12 highly optimized small-molecule sensors

AJ Meyer, TH Segall-Shapiro, E Glassey… - Nature chemical …, 2019 - nature.com
Cellular processes are carried out by many genes, and their study and optimization requires
multiple levers by which they can be independently controlled. The most common method is …

CRISPR mediated biosensing toward understanding cellular biology and point‐of‐care diagnosis

Y Dai, Y Wu, G Liu, JJ Gooding - … Chemie International Edition, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in CRISPR based biotechnologies have greatly expanded our capabilities
to repurpose CRISPR for the development of biomolecular sensors for diagnosing diseases …

Improvement of a synthetic live bacterial therapeutic for phenylketonuria with biosensor-enabled enzyme engineering

KJ Adolfsen, I Callihan, CE Monahan… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
In phenylketonuria (PKU) patients, a genetic defect in the enzyme phenylalanine
hydroxylase (PAH) leads to elevated systemic phenylalanine (Phe), which can result in …

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 …

MaveDB: an open-source platform to distribute and interpret data from multiplexed assays of variant effect

D Esposito, J Weile, J Shendure, LM Starita… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Multiplex assays of variant effect (MAVEs), such as deep mutational scans and massively
parallel reporter assays, test thousands of sequence variants in a single experiment. Despite …

Pyruvate-responsive genetic circuits for dynamic control of central metabolism

X Xu, X Li, Y Liu, Y Zhu, J Li, G Du, J Chen… - Nature Chemical …, 2020 - nature.com
Dynamic regulation is a promising strategy for fine-tuning metabolic fluxes in microbial cell
factories. However, few of these synthetic regulatory systems have been developed for …