合成生物学論文メモ (Nov 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。
28報
Synthetic Biology
Transcription/Translation Control
遺伝子回路、転写翻訳制御など- Interpretation of morphogen gradients by a synthetic bistable circuit
- Authors: P.K. Grant, G. Szep, O. Patange, J. Halatek, V. Coppard, A. Csikász-Nagy, J. Haseloff, J.C.W. Locke, N. Dalchau & A. Phillips
- Journal: Nature Communications
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19098-w
- Institution: Microsoft Research, UK
応用へのアプローチの仕方が良い。
- An endoribonuclease-based feedforward controller for decoupling resource-limited genetic modules in mammalian cells
- Authors: R.D. Jones, Y. Qian, V. Siciliano, B. DiAndreth, J. Huh, R. Weiss & D.D. Vecchio
- Journal: Nature Communications
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19126-9
- Institution: MIT, USA
Zhao labと同じmRNA分解による細胞内資源再分配だが、使用している回路の構成が違って面白い。こっちの方が数理モデルからの厳密な定量がされているっぽい?
- Predictive design of sigma factor-specific promoters
- Authors: M.V. Brempt, J. Clauwaert, F. Mey, M. Stock, J. Maertens, W. Waegeman & M.D. Mey
- Journal: Nature Communications
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19446-w
- Institution: Ghent University, Belgium
酵母プロモーター予測器のE.coli版。
- Tunable Gene Expression System Independent of Downstream Coding Sequence
- Authors: S.M. Yoo, S.-W. Jung, J. Yeom, S.Y. Lee & D. Na
- Journal: ACS Synthetic Biology
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.0c00029
- Institution: Chung-Ang University, Korea
UTRの編集はアイデアとして他にもありそうだけど、どうだろう
- Multidimensional Characterization of Parts Enhances Modeling Accuracy in Genetic Circuits
- Authors: M. Gómez-Schiavon, G. Dods, H. El-Samad, A.H. Ng
- Journal: ACS Synthetic Biology
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.0c00288
- Institution: UCSF, USA
fitting出来ているものはあるけど、出来ていないものもちらほら。汎用モデルを立てるのはなかなか難しそう。
- Design of Multipartite Transcription Factors for Multiplexed Logic Genome Integration Control in Mammalian Cells
- Authors: S. Ausländer, D. Ausländer, P.F. Lang, M. Kemi & M. Fussenegger
- Journal: ACS Synthetic Biology
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.0c00413
- Institution: ETH Zurich, Switzerland
人工TFの作り方論文が哺乳類細胞まで来た。
- Synthetic protein-binding DNA sponge as a tool to tune gene expression and mitigate protein toxicity
- Authors: X. Wan, F. Pinto, L. Yu, B. Wang
- Journal: Nature Communications
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19552-9
- Institution: University of Edinburgh, UK
何で今まで誰もやらなかったのかが疑問なレベルのシンプルな発想ながら、強力な結果。
RNA Synthetic Biology
アプタマー、リボザイムなど- Aptamer-Mediated Control of Polyadenylation for Gene Expression Regulation in Mammalian Cells
- Authors: M. Spöring, R. Boneberg & J.S. Hartig
- Journal: ACS Synthetic Biology
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.0c00222
- Institution: University of Konstanz, Germany
ポリAシグナルの阻害とはその手があったか。3'UTRのリボスイッチの可能性も広げる。
Cell-free / Reconstruction
無細胞系、再構成など- Microcompartmentalized Cell-Free Protein Synthesis in Hydrogel μ‑Channels
- Authors: A.I. Benítez-Mateos, N. Zeballos, N. Comino, L.M. de Redrojo, T. Randelovic, & F. López-Galle*
- Journal: ACS Synthetic Biology
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.0c00462
- Institution: CICbiomaGUNE, Spain
- From deterministic to fuzzy decision-making in artificial cells
- Authors: F. Greiss, S.S. Daube, V. Noireaux & R. Bar-Ziv
- Journal: Nature Communications
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19395-4
- Institution: Weizmann Institute of Scienc, Israel
キャピラリーで区切っただけで膜のない空間をartificial cellと呼ぶのかは疑問。
- Decoupling Protein Production from Cell Growth Enhances the Site- Specific Incorporation of Noncanonical Amino Acids in E. coli
- Authors: M.G. Casas, P. Stargardt, J. Mairhofer & B. Wiltschi
- Journal: ACS Synthetic Biology
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.0c00298
- Institution: Austrian Center of Industrial Biotechnology, Austria
非天然アミノ酸もいよいよ現実的なタンパク質デザインが出て来そう。
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- Optogenetic Control of the BMP Signaling Pathway
- Authors: P.A. Humphreys, S. Woods, C.A. Smith, N. Bates, S.A. Cain, R. Lucas & S.J. Kimber
- Journal: ACS Synthetic Biology
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.0c00315
- Institution: The University of Manchester, UK
characterization(fig2)が丁寧で良い。
- Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Biosensor for Rapid Detection of Protein Expression
- Authors: M.G. Eason, A.T. Pandelieva, M.M. Mayer, S.T. Khan, H.G. Garcia, R.A. Chica
- Journal: ACS Synthetic Biology
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.0c00407
- Institution: University of Ottawa, Canada
リアルタイム観察が出来るような応答の速さがポイント高いらしい。
Protein Engineering
タンパク質工学- Scalable continuous evolution for the generation of diverse enzyme variants encompassing promiscuous activities
- Authors: G. Rix, E.J. Watkins-Dulaney, P.J. Almhjell, C.E. Boville, F.H. Arnold & C.C. Liu
- Journal: Nature Communications
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19539-6
- Institution: UC Irvine, USA
eVOLVERでやったらもっと簡単に実現できそう。continuous directed evolutionやりたい。
- Discovery of Novel Gain-of-Function Mutations Guided by Structure-Based Deep Learning
- Authors: R. Shroff, A.W. Cole, D.J. Diaz, B.R. Morrow, I. Donnell, A. Annapareddy, J. Gollihar, A.D. Ellington, R. Thyer
- Journal: ACS Synthetic Biology
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.0c00345
- Institution: The University of Texas at Austin, USA
周辺情報からの残基の予測でそんなに上手く行くとは、モデルの訓練で機能に関しての情報は与えていないけど。
Metabolic/Signal Pathway Engineering
シグナル経路、代謝経路、酵素工学など- Adaptive laboratory evolution of native methanol assimilation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Authors: M.I. Espinosa, R.A. Gonzalez-Garcia, K. Valgepea, M.R. Plan, C. Scott, I.S. Pretorius, E. Marcellin, I.T. Paulsen & T.C. Williams
- Journal: Nature Communications
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19390-9
- Institution: Macquarie University, Australia
- Awakening a latent carbon fixation cycle in Escherichia coli
- Authors: A. Satanowski, B. Dronsella, E. Noor, B. Vögeli, H. He, P. Wichmann, T.J. Erb, S.N. Lindner & A. Bar-Even
- Journal: Nature Communications
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19564-5
- Institution: Max Planck Institute, Germany
タイトルがかっこいい、内容もタイトルに劣らずかっこいい。
- Synthesis of Ligustrazine from Acetaldehyde by a Combined Biological−Chemical Approach
- Authors: K. Peng, D. Guo, Q. Lou, X. Lu, J. Cheng, J. Qiao, L. Lu, T. Cai, Y. Liu, H. Jiang
- Journal: ACS Synthetic Biology
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.0c00113
- Institution: Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Integrative Biosynthetic Gene Cluster Mining to Optimize a Metabolic Pathway to Efficiently Produce L‑Homophenylalanine in Escherichia coli
- Authors: Zhenning Liu, Dengwei Lei, Bin Qiao, Shilin Li, Jianjun Qiao, and Guang-Rong Zhao
- Journal: ACS Synthetic Biology
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.0c00363
- Institution: Tianjin University, China
代謝工学もin silicoで色々出てきて面白い。
- De Novo Biosynthesis of Multiple Pinocembrin Derivatives in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Authors: X. Liu, J. Cheng, X. Zhu, G. Zhang, S. Yang, X. Guo, H. Jiang & Y. Ma
- Journal: ACS Synthetic Biology
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.0c00289
- Institution: Chinese Academy of Science, China
こちらもin silicoでのRNA-seqデータのマイニング。
DNA / Biophysics
DNA、核酸論理回路、ナノスケール構造物など- Rapid and robust assembly and decoding of molecular tags with DNA-based nanopore signatures.
- Authors: K. Doroschak, K. Zhang, M. Queen, A. Mandyam, K. Strauss, L. Ceze & J. Nivala
- Journal: Nature Communications
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19151-8
- Institution: University of Washington, USA
バーコード配列を進化させるという発想が初耳で面白かった。
- DNA synthesis for true random number generation
- Authors: L.C. Meiser, J. Koch, P.L. Antkowiak, W.J. Stark, R. Heckel & R.N. Grass
- Journal: Nature Communications
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19757-y
- Institution: ETH Zurich, Switzerland
思ったよりバイアス大きくて驚き。
- Complex multicomponent patterns rendered on a 3D DNA-barrel pegboard
- Authors: S.F.J. Wickham, A. Auer, J. Min, N. Ponnuswamy, J.B. Woehrstein, F. Schueder, M.T. Strauss, J. Schnitzbauer, B. Nathwani, Z. Zhao, S.D. Perrault, J. Hahn, S. Lee, M.M. Bastings, S.W. Helmig, A.L. Kodal, P. Yin, R. Jungmann & W.M. Shih
- Journal: Nature Communications
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18910-x
- Institution: Harvard University, USA
でかい、すごい。
Alternative Hosts / Strain Engineering
宿主や系統株の開発- Leveraging Oxidative Stress to Regulate Redox Balance-Based, In Vivo Growth Selections for Oxygenase Engineering
- Authors: S. Maxel, E. King, Y. Zhang, R. Luo & Han Li
- Journal: ACS Synthetic Biology
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.0c00380
- Institution: UC Irvine, USA
directed evolutionのために株ごと作るという発想の転換。株そのものの汎用性は低いけど、アイデアは他に活かせそう。
Bioinformatics
- UMI-linked consensus sequencing enables phylogenetic analysis of directed evolution
- Authors: P.J. Zurek, P. Knyphausen, K. Neufeld, A. Pushpanath & F. Hollfelder
- Journal: Nature Communications
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19687-9
- Institution: University of Cambridge, UK
デミナーゼの進化についてデータベースも公開されているので、in silicoツール制作に使える。