合成生物学論文メモ (May 2021)
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。
21報
Synthetic Biology
Transcription/Translation Control
遺伝子回路、転写翻訳制御など- The transcriptional landscape of a rewritten bacterial genome reveals control elements and genome design principles
- Authors: van Kooten, Mariëlle J F M; Scheidegger, Clio A; Christen, Matthias; Christen, Beat
- Journal: Nature Communications
- Year: 2021
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23362-y
- Institution: ETH Zürich, Switzerland
ボトムアップな方法でゲノム全体の発現制御様式に示唆を与えていて良い。
- Synthetic neural-like computing in microbial consortia for pattern recognition
- Authors: Li, Ximing; Rizik, Luna; Kravchik, Valeriia; Khoury, Maria; Korin, Netanel; Daniel, Ramez
- Journal: Nature Communications
- Year: 2021
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23336-0
- Institution: Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
言いたい事は分かるが無理矢理感が否めない。
- Scalable recombinase-based gene expression cascades
- Authors: Kim, Tackhoon; Weinberg, Benjamin; Wong, Wilson; Lu, Timothy K
- Journal: Nature Communications
- Year: 2021
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22978-4
- Institution: MIT, USA
回路設計アイデアが面白い。
- Control of Multigene Expression Stoichiometry in Mammalian Cells Using Synthetic Promoters
- Authors: Patel, Yash D; Brown, Adam J; Zhu, Jie; Rosignoli, Guglielmo; Gibson, Suzanne J; Hatton, Diane; James, David C
- Journal: ACS Synthetic Biology
- Year: 2021
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.0c00643
- Institution: University of Sheffield, UK
定性的には興味深い内容だが、定量化部分がやや雑な気も。
RNA Synthetic Biology
アプタマー、リボザイムなど- High-Performance Allosteric Conditional Guide RNAs for Mammalian Cell-Selective Regulation of CRISPR/Cas
- Authors: Hochrein, Lisa M; Li, Heyun; Pierce, Niles A
- Journal: ACS Synthetic Biology
- Year: 2021
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.1c00037
- Institution: California Institute of Technology, USA
Toehold switchのデザインをcrRNAに適用したような感じで面白い。
Cell-free / Reconstruction
無細胞系、再構成など- In Vitro Protein Synthesis in Semipermeable Artificial Cells
- Authors: Van Raad, Damian; Huber, Thomas
- Journal: ACS Synthetic Biology
- Year: 2021
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.1c00044
- Institution: Australian National University, Australia
発現効率を向上させる余地はまだありそう。
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- Circularly permuted LOV2 as a modular photoswitch for optogenetic engineering
- Authors: He, Lian; Tan, Peng; Zhu, Lei; Huang, Kai; Nguyen, Nhung T; Wang, Rui; Guo, Lei; Li, Ling; Yang, Yuhan; Huang, Zixian; Huang, Yun; Han, Gang; Wang, Junfeng; Zhou, Yubin
- Journal: Nature Chemical Biology
- Year: 2021
- DOI: 10.1038/s41589-021-00792-9
- Institution: Texas A&M University, USA
LOVドメインの使い辛さを比較的真似しやすい方法で解消していて影響が大きそう。
Protein Engineering
タンパク質工学- Creating RNA Specific C-to-U Editase from APOBEC3A by Separation of Its Activities on DNA and RNA Substrates
- Authors: Tang, Guiyue; Xie, Bingran; Hong, Xiangna; Qin, Hang; Wang, Jingfang; Huang, Hai; Hao, Pei; Li, Xuan
- Journal: ACS Synthetic Biology
- Year: 2021
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.0c00627
- Institution: Shanghai University, China
変異を加える残基の選定については書かれていたが、どうやって変異後のアミノ酸を選んだかはよく分からなかった。
CRISPR/Cas
クリスパー系- Optimized CRISPR tools and site-directed transgenesis towards gene drive development in Culex quinquefasciatus mosquitoes
- Authors: Feng, Xuechun; López Del Amo, Víctor; Mameli, Enzo; Lee, Megan; Bishop, Alena L; Perrimon, Norbert; Gantz, Valentino M
- Journal: Nature Communications
- Year: 2021
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23239-0
- Institution: UCSD, USA
- CopyCatchers are versatile active genetic elements that detect and quantify inter-homolog somatic gene conversion
- Authors: Li, Zhiqian; Marcel, Nimi; Devkota, Sushil; Auradkar, Ankush; Hedrick, Stephen M; Gantz, Valentino M; Bier, Ethan
- Journal: Nature Communications
- Year: 2021
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22927-1
- Institution: UCSD, USA
Metabolic/Signal Pathway Engineering
シグナル経路、代謝経路、酵素工学など- High-Throughput Screening of an Octanoic Acid Producer Strain Library Enables Detection of New Targets for Increasing Titers in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Authors: Baumann, Leonie; Bruder, Stefan; Kabisch, Johannes; Boles, Eckhard; Oreb, Mislav
- Journal: ACS Synthetic Biology
- Year: 2021
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.0c00600
- Institution: Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
DNA / Biophysics
DNA、核酸論理回路、ナノスケール構造物など- Patterning Microtubule Network Organization Reshapes Cell-Like Compartments
- Authors: Bermudez, Jessica G; Deiters, Alexander; Good, Matthew C
- Journal: ACS Synthetic Biology
- Year: 2021
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.0c00575
- Institution: University of Pennsylvania, USA
自己組織化を誘導するタイプの設計は難しそうだがワクワクする。
- Functional Comparison of Laboratory-Evolved XNA Polymerases for Synthetic Biology
- Authors: Medina, Esau; Yik, Eric J; Herdewijn, Piet; Chaput, John C
- Journal: ACS Synthetic Biology
- Year: 2021
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.1c00048
- Institution: Rega Institute for Medical Research, Belgium
複数のツールを比較評価する良い論文。
Alternative Hosts / Strain Engineering
宿主や系統株の開発- Programming gene expression in multicellular organisms for physiology modulation through engineered bacteria
- Authors: Gao, Baizhen; Sun, Qing
- Journal: Nature Communications
- Year: 2021
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22894-7
- Institution: Texas A&M University, USA
- A Computational Framework for Identifying Promoter Sequences in Nonmodel Organisms Using RNA-seq Data Sets
- Authors: Wilson, Erin H; Groom, Joseph D; Sarfatis, M Claire; Ford, Stephanie M; Lidstrom, Mary E; Beck, David A C
- Journal: ACS Synthetic Biology
- Year: 2021
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.1c00017
- Institution: University of Washington, USA
Computational Biology / Bioinformatics
Representation Learning
核酸、アミノ酸配列の表現学習- Light Attention Predicts Protein Location from the Language of Life
- Authors: Stärk, Hannes; Dallago, Christian; Heinzinger, Michael; Rost, Burkhard
- Journal: bioRxiv
- Year: 2021
- DOI: 10.1101/2021.04.25.441334
- Institution: Technical University of Munich, Germany
普通のfine-tuningとの比較もして欲しいところ
Other Biology
- A third purine biosynthetic pathway encoded by aminoadenine-based viral DNA genomes
- Authors: Sleiman, Dona; Garcia, Pierre Simon; Lagune, Marion; Loc'h, Jerome; Haouz, Ahmed; Taib, Najwa; Röthlisberger, Pascal; Gribaldo, Simonetta; Marlière, Philippe; Kaminski, Pierre Alexandre
- Journal: Science
- Year: 2021
- DOI: 10.1126/science.abe6494
- Institution: Institut Pasteur, France