合成生物学論文メモ (Mar 2020)
読み流した論文のメモ。黒色はメモ、緑色は感想、赤色は特に面白いと思ったもの。
26報
Synthetic Biology
Transcription/Translation Control
遺伝子回路、転写翻訳制御など- A genome-wide approach for identification and characterisation of metabolite-inducible systems
- Authors: E.K.R. Hanko, A.C. Paiva, M. Jonczyk, M. Abbott, N.P. Minton & N. Malys
- Journal: Nature Communications
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-14941-6
- Institution: The University of Nottingham, UK
合成生物学での理想的なツール開発の道のりという感じ。
- Inducible cell-to-cell signaling for tunable dynamics in microbial communities
- Authors: A. Miano, M.J. Liao & J. Hasty
- Journal: Nature Communications
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15056-8
- Institution: UC San Diego, USA
代謝工学と遺伝子回路のハイブリッド。似た様な流れに期待が高まる。
- Caliciviral protein-based artificial translational activator for mammalian gene circuits with RNA-only delivery.
- Authors: H. Nakanishi & H. Saito
- Journal: Nature Communications
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15061-x
- Institution: Kyoto University, Japan
- A gene signal amplifier platform for monitoring the unfolded protein response
- Authors: C.A. Origel Marmolejo, B. Bachhav, S.D. Patibandla, A.L. Yang &anp; L. Segatori
- Journal: Nature Chemical Biology
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1038/s41589-020-0497-x
- Institution: Rice University, USA
バクテリアのバイオセンサーなどでよく使われる遺伝子回路の応用形式を哺乳類細胞に持ち込んだ研究。哺乳類細胞のシグナル伝達系への遺伝子回路応用、注目。
- Engineering of an enhanced synthetic Notch receptor by reducing ligand-independent activation
- Authors: Z. Yang, Z. Yu, Y. Cai, R. Du & L. Cai
- Journal: Communications Biology
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1038/s42003-020-0848-x
- Institution: Fudan University, China
上に同じく哺乳類細胞のシグナル伝達系への遺伝子回路実装。
- Development of High-Performance Whole Cell Biosensors Aided by Statistical Modeling
- Authors: A. Berepiki, R. Kent, L.F.M. Machado & N. Dixon
- Journal: ACS Synthetic Biology
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.9b00448
- Institution: University of Manchester, UK
- Directed Evolution of the Stringency of the LuxR Vibrio fischeri Quorum Sensor without OFF-State Selection
- Authors: Y. Kimura, S. Kawai-Noma, K. Saito & D. Umeno
- Journal: ACS Synthetic Biology
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.9b00444
- Institution: Chiba University, Japan
LuxRの構造に特異的な可能性もあるが、TFツールの改善方法として一般化できれば強力。
RNA Synthetic Biology
アプタマー、リボザイムなど- Precise and Programmable Detection of Mutations Using Ultraspecific Riboregulators
- Authors: F. Hong, D. Ma, K. Wu, Y. Liu, H. Yan, A.A. Green
- Journal: Cell
- Year: 20
- DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.02.011
- Institution: Arizona State University, USA
立体構造の自由エネルギーベースのRNAswitchで塩基レベルの識別能は凄過ぎ。in silicoデザイン用のソフトウェアも公開されている。
- Regulation of mRNA translation by a photoriboswitch
- Authors: K.A. Rotstan, M.M. Abdelsayed, L.FM. Passalacqua, F. Chizzolini, K. Sudarshan, A.R. Chamberlin, J. Misek & A. Luptak
- Journal: eLife
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.7554/elife.51737
- Institution: UC Irvine, USA
翻訳量のON/OFFレンジが~2倍と小さいのが惜しいところ。
- Refolding through a Linear Transition State Enables Fast Temperature Adaptation of a Translational Riboswitch
- Authors: B. Furtig, E.M. Oberhauser, H. Zetzsche, D. Klotzner, A. Heckel & H. Schwalbe
- Journal: Biochemistry
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.9b01044
- Institution: Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Germany
Cell-free / Reconstruction
無細胞系、再構成など- Design and Optimization of a Cell-Free Atrazine Biosensor
- Authors: A.D. Silverman, U. Akova, K.K. Alam, M.C. Jewett &anp; J.B. Lucks
- Journal: ACS Synthetic Biology
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.9b00388
- Institution: Northwestern University, USA
Cell-freeセンサーと代謝工学との融合。
Optogenetics
光駆動型ツール、蛍光イメージング、光受容体など、その他〇〇genetics系- A progesterone biosensor derived from microbial screening
- Authors: C. Grazon, R C. Baer, U. Kuzmanović, T. Nguyen, M. Chen, M. Zamani, M. Chern, P. Aquino, X. Zhang, S. Lecommandoux, A. Fan, M. Cabodi, C. Klapperich, M.W. Grinstaff, A.M. Dennis & J.E. Galagan
- Journal: Nature Communications
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-14942-5
- Institution: Boston University, USA
Protein Engineering
タンパク質工学- Design and Characterization of an Icosahedral Protein Cage Formed by a Double-Fusion Protein Containing Three Distinct Symmetry Elements
- Authors: K.A. Cannon, V.N. Nguyen, C. Morgan & T.O. Yeates
- Journal: ACS Synthetic Biology
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.9b00392
- Institution: UCLA, USA
- An expanded library of orthogonal split inteins enables modular multi-peptide assemblies
- Authors: F. Pinto, E.L. Thornton & B. Wang
- Journal: Nature Communications
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15272-2
- Institution: University of Edinburgh, UK
高効率なスクリーニング方法が確立できるとやはり強いという印象。
Metabolic/Signal Pathway Engineering
シグナル経路、代謝経路、酵素工学など- An Escherichia coli Chassis for Production of Electrically Conductive Protein Nanowires
- Authors: T. Ueki, D.J.F. Walker, T.L. Woodard, K.P. Nevin, S.S. Nonnenmann &anp; D.R. Lovley
- Journal: ACS Synthetic Biology
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.9b00506
- Institution: University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA
- Development of a Quorum-Sensing Based Circuit for Control of Coculture Population Composition in a Naringenin Production System
- Authors: C.V. Dinh, X. Chen &anp; K.L.J. Prather
- Journal: ACS Synthetic Biology
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.9b00451
- Institution: MIT, USA
Cell-free / Reconstruction
無細胞系、再構成など- Decorating bacteria with self-assembled synthetic receptors
- Authors: N. Lahav-Mankovski, P. Kishore Prasad, N. Oppenheimer-Low, G. Raviv, T. Dadosh, T. Unger, T.M. Salame, L. Motiei & D. Margulies
- Journal: Nature Communications
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-14336-7
- Institution: Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
ODN2に加える機能のデザインの幅がどの程度なのか気になる。
Computational Biology
- Cell-in-the-loop pattern formation with optogenetically emulated cell-to-cell signaling
- Authors: M.L. Perkins, D. Benzinger, M. Arcak & M. Khammash
- Journal: Nature Communications
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15166-3
- Institution: UC Berkeley, USA
- Estimating chain lengths for time delays in dynamical systems using profile likelihood
- Authors: A.L. Hauber, R. Engesser, J. Vanlier &anp; J. Timmer
- Journal: Bioinformatics
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btz838
- Institution: University of Freiburg, Germany
新たな方法は反応回数の過小評価が起きがちな様なので、両方の評価を元に反応回数を定めれば良さそう。
Bioinformatics
- CASPR, an analysis pipeline for single and paired guide RNA CRISPR screens, reveals optimal target selection for long non-coding RNAs
- Authors: Judith Bergada` -Pijuan1,2, Carlos Pulido-Quetglas1,2,3, Adrienne Vancura1,2 and Rory Johnson
- Journal: Bioinformatics
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btz811
- Institution: University of Bern, Switzerland
- Abundance of conserved CRISPR-Cas9 target sites within the highly polymorphic genomes of Anopheles and Aedes mosquitoes
- Authors: H. Schmidt, T.C. Collier, M.J. Hanemaaijer, P.D. Houston, Y. Lee & G.C. Lanzaro
- Journal: Nature Communications
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15204-0
- Institution: UC Davis, USA
General Biology
- New Insight into Plasmid-Driven T7 RNA Polymerase (PDT7) in Escherichia coli and Used as Genetic Amplifier for Biosensor
- Authors: S. Tan & I. Ng
- Journal: ACS Synthetic Biology
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.9b00466
- Institution: Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
T7の細胞毒性の影響でクローニングが上手くいかなかったと言ってT7プロモーターの変異体を使っているが、良い手はないか。
- Early fate of exogenous promoters in E. coli
- Authors: M. Yousuf, I. Iuliani, R.T. Veetil, A.S.N. Seshasayee, B. Sclavi &anp; M. Cosentino Lagomarsino
- Journal: Nucelic Acids Research
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkz1196
- Institution: The University of Edinburgh, UK