Synthetic biology approaches for the production of plant metabolites in unicellular organisms

T Moses, P Mehrshahi, AG Smith… - Journal of Experimental …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Synthetic biology is the repurposing of biological systems for novel objectives and
applications. Through the co-ordinated and balanced expression of genes, both native and …

Importance of the 5′ regulatory region to bacterial synthetic biology applications

L Tietze, R Lale - Microbial Biotechnology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The field of synthetic biology is evolving at a fast pace. It is advancing beyond single‐gene
alterations in single hosts to the logical design of complex circuits and the development of …

Programmable T7-based synthetic transcription factors

BJ Hussey, DR McMillen - Nucleic Acids Research, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Despite recent progress on synthetic transcription factor generation in eukaryotes, there
remains a need for high-activity bacterial versions of these systems. In synthetic biology …

Unraveling the complex interplay of Fis and IHF through synthetic promoter engineering

LMO Monteiro, A Sanches-Medeiros… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Bacterial promoters are usually formed by multiple cis-regulatory elements recognized by a
plethora of transcriptional factors (TFs). From those, global regulators are key elements …

Boosting secondary metabolite production and discovery through the engineering of novel microbial biosensors

UA de Frias, GKB Pereira… - BioMed research …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Bacteria are a source of a large number of secondary metabolites with several biomedical
and biotechnological applications. In recent years, there has been tremendous progress in …

Systematic identification of novel regulatory interactions controlling biofilm formation in the bacterium Escherichia coli

GR Amores, A De Las Heras, A Sanches-Medeiros… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Here, we investigated novel interactions of three global regulators of the network that
controls biofilm formation in the model bacterium Escherichia coli using computational …

Generating information-dense promoter sequences with optimal string packing

V Andreani, EJ South, MJ Dunlop - PLOS Computational Biology, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Dense arrangements of binding sites within nucleotide sequences can collectively influence
downstream transcription rates or initiate biomolecular interactions. For example, natural …

Emergent properties in complex synthetic bacterial promoters

LMO Monteiro, LM Arruda, R Silva-Rocha - ACS synthetic biology, 2018 - ACS Publications
Regulation of gene expression in bacteria results from the interplay between hundreds of
transcriptional factors (TFs) at target promoters. However, how the arrangement of binding …

Current landscape and future directions of synthetic biology in South America

ES Gomez-Hinostroza, N Gurdo… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Synthetic biology (SynBio) is a rapidly advancing multidisciplinary field in which South
American countries such as Chile, Argentina, and Brazil have made notable contributions …

Calibrating Transcriptional Activity Using Constitutive Synthetic Promoters in Mutants for Global Regulators in Escherichia coli

A Sanches-Medeiros, LMO Monteiro… - … Journal of Genomics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The engineering of synthetic circuits in cells relies on the use of well‐characterized
biological parts that would perform predicted functions under the situation considered, and …