Principles of genetic circuit design

JAN Brophy, CA Voigt - Nature methods, 2014 - nature.com
Cells navigate environments, communicate and build complex patterns by initiating gene
expression in response to specific signals. Engineers seek to harness this capability to …

Genome-editing technologies: principles and applications

T Gaj, SJ Sirk, S Shui, J Liu - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2016 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Targeted nucleases have provided researchers with the ability to manipulate virtually any
genomic sequence, enabling the facile creation of isogenic cell lines and animal models for …

Editing the epigenome: technologies for programmable transcription and epigenetic modulation

PI Thakore, JB Black, IB Hilton, CA Gersbach - Nature methods, 2016 - nature.com
Gene regulation is a complex and tightly controlled process that defines cell identity, health
and disease, and response to pharmacologic and environmental signals. Recently …

Multiplex CRISPR/Cas9-based genome engineering from a single lentiviral vector

AM Kabadi, DG Ousterout, IB Hilton… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Engineered DNA-binding proteins that manipulate the human genome and transcriptome
have enabled rapid advances in biomedical research. In particular, the RNA-guided …

Techniques for investigating lncRNA transcript functions in neurodevelopment

T Srinivas, E Siqueira, S Guil - Molecular Psychiatry, 2024 - nature.com
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are sequences of 200 nucleotides or more that are
transcribed from a large portion of the mammalian genome. While hypothesized to have a …

Genome-wide specificity of DNA binding, gene regulation, and chromatin remodeling by TALE-and CRISPR/Cas9-based transcriptional activators

LR Polstein, P Perez-Pinera, DD Kocak… - Genome …, 2015 - genome.cshlp.org
Genome engineering technologies based on the CRISPR/Cas9 and TALE systems are
enabling new approaches in science and biotechnology. However, the specificity of these …

Engineering synthetic gene circuits in living cells with CRISPR technology

B Jusiak, S Cleto, P Perez-Piñera, TK Lu - Trends in biotechnology, 2016 - cell.com
One of the goals of synthetic biology is to build regulatory circuits that control cell behavior,
for both basic research purposes and biomedical applications. The ability to build …

Synthetic zinc finger proteins: the advent of targeted gene regulation and genome modification technologies

CA Gersbach, T Gaj, CF Barbas III - Accounts of chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The understanding of gene regulation and the structure and function of the
human genome increased dramatically at the end of the 20th century. Yet the technologies …

Enabling tools for high-throughput detection of metabolites: metabolic engineering and directed evolution applications

JL Lin, JM Wagner, HS Alper - Biotechnology advances, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Within the Design-Build-Test Cycle for strain engineering, rapid product detection
and selection strategies remain challenging and limit overall throughput. Here we …

The multi-faceted potential of plant-derived metabolites as antimicrobial agents against multidrug-resistant pathogens

J Shin, VS Prabhakaran, K Kim - Microbial pathogenesis, 2018 - Elsevier
Multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogens are currently causing serious problems globally in the
medical setting. Improper and extensive usage of antibiotics results in a selective pressure …