合成生物学論文メモ (Jun 2022)
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。
Synthetic Biology
Transcription/Translation Control
遺伝子回路、転写翻訳制御など- CRISPR-mediated protein-tagging signal amplification systems for efficient transcriptional activation and repression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Authors: Zhai, Haotian; Cui, Li; Xiong, Zhen; Qi, Qingsheng; Hou, Jin
- Journal: Nucleic acids research
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkac463
- Institution: Shandong University, China
パーツが増えてくると細胞の代謝負荷がどれくらいなのか気になる。
- A genetic mammalian proportional-integral feedback control circuit for robust and precise gene regulation
- Authors: Frei, Timothy; Chang, Ching-Hsiang; Filo, Maurice; Arampatzis, Asterios; Khammash, Mustafa
- Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2122132119
- Institution: ETH Zurich, Switzerland
とんでもない量の最適化をしていそう。シンプルにすごい。
- Machine Learning Guided Batched Design of a Bacterial Ribosome Binding Site
- Authors: Zhang, Mengyan; Holowko, Maciej Bartosz; Hayman Zumpe, Huw; Ong, Cheng Soon
- Journal: ACS synthetic biology
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.2c00015
- Institution: Australian National University, Australia
最大値は向上しているが集団としてはもう少しラウンド数が必要そう。
RNA Synthetic Biology
アプタマー、リボザイムなど- Utilizing RNA origami scaffolds in Saccharomyces cerevisiae for dCas9-mediated transcriptional control
- Authors: Pothoulakis, Georgios; Nguyen, Michael T A; Andersen, Ebbe S
- Journal: Nucleic acids research
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkac470
- Institution: Aarhus University, Denmark
RNA折り紙を使ったツール最近よく見る。
- Directed evolution and selection of biostable l-DNA aptamers with a mirror-image DNA polymerase
- Authors: Chen, Ji; Chen, Mengyin; Zhu, Ting F
- Journal: Nature biotechnology
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1038/s41587-022-01337-8
- Institution: Tsinghua University, China
アイデアも結果もかなり面白い。結構な数のPAGEシーケンシングで大変そう。
Cell-free / Reconstruction
無細胞系、再構成など- Noncanonical amino acid mutagenesis in response to recoding signal-enhanced quadruplet codons
- Authors: Chen, Yan; He, Xinyuan; Ma, Bin; Liu, Kun; Gao, Tianyu; Niu, Wei; Guo, Jiantao
- Journal: Nucleic acids research
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkac474/6601289
- Institution: University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
対応するtRNAやaaRS次第で可能性が広がりそうで面白い。
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- Controlling synthetic membraneless organelles by a red-light-dependent singlet oxygen-generating protein
- Authors: Li, Manjia; Park, Byung Min; Dai, Xin; Xu, Yingjie; Huang, Jinqing; Sun, Fei
- Journal: Nature communications
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30933-0
- Institution: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong/China
色々なシステムの実装をしていて盛り沢山だった。
- An Optogenetic Toolkit for Light-Inducible Antibiotic Resistance
- Authors: Sheets, Michael B; Dunlop, Mary J
- Journal: bioRxiv
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1101/2022.06.10.495621
- Institution: Boston University, USA
オプトジェネティックな制御を厳密にしたい場合は有効そう。でも代謝荷重を考えると抗生物質自体を光ケージで修飾する様な方が(あれば)使い勝手は良いのかも。
Protein Engineering
タンパク質工学- BacPROTACs mediate targeted protein degradation in bacteria
- Authors: Morreale, Francesca E; Kleine, Stefan; Leodolter, Julia; Junker, Sabryna; Hoi, David M; Ovchinnikov, Stepan; Okun, Anastasia; Kley, Juliane; Kurzbauer, Robert; Junk, Lukas; Guha, Somraj; Podlesainski, David; Kazmaier, Uli; Boehmelt, Guido; Weinstabl, Harald; Rumpel, Klaus; Schmiedel, Volker M; Hartl, Markus; Haselbach, David; Meinhart, Anton; Kaiser, Markus; Clausen, Tim
- Journal: Cell
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2022.05.009
- Institution: Reseaarch Institute of Molecular Pathology, Austria
化学的なデザイン部分は良くわからないが、手順が面白かった。
- Repurposing Peptide Nanomaterials as Synthetic Biomolecular Condensates in Bacteria
- Authors: Tomares, Dylan T; Whitlock, Sara; Mann, Matthew; DiBernardo, Emma; Childers, W Seth
- Journal: ACS synthetic biology
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.2c00078
- Institution: University of Pittsburgh, USA
現象自体も面白かったし、細胞内反応の場を人工的に作れそう。
- Cell-Free Mutant Analysis Combined with Structure Prediction of a Lasso Peptide Biosynthetic Protease B2
- Authors: Alfi, Almasul; Popov, Aleksandr; Kumar, Ashutosh; Zhang, Kam Y J; Dubiley, Svetlana; Severinov, Konstantin; Tagami, Shunsuke
- Journal: ACS synthetic biology
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.2c00176
- Institution: RIKEN, Japan
AF2の予測構造で十分な証拠として認められる様になってすごい。
- Controlling Nuclease Degradation of Wireframe DNA Origami with Minor Groove Binders
- Authors: Wamhoff, Eike-Christian; Romanov, Anna; Huang, Hellen; Read, Benjamin J; Ginsburg, Eric; Knappe, Grant A; Kim, Hyun Min; Farrell, Nicholas P; Irvine, Darrell J; Bathe, Mark
- Journal: ACS nano
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c11575
- Institution: MIT, USA
- Light-activated molecular machines are fast-acting broad-spectrum antibacterials that target the membrane
- Authors: Santos, Ana L; Liu, Dongdong; Reed, Anna K; Wyderka, Aaron M; van Venrooy, Alexis; Li, John T; Li, Victor D; Misiura, Mikita; Samoylova, Olga; Beckham, Jacob L; Ayala-Orozco, Ciceron; Kolomeisky, Anatoly B; Alemany, Lawrence B; Oliver, Antonio; Tegos, George P; Tour, James M
- Journal: Science advances
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abm2055
- Institution: Rice University, USA
- Graph Computation Using Algorithmic Self-Assembly of DNA Molecules
- Authors: Xu, Jin; Chen, Congzhou; Shi, Xiaolong
- Journal: ACS synthetic biology
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.2c00120
- Institution: Peking University, China
グラフを作る発想は見た事がなかったので面白かったし、相性が良さそう。大規模にするには直交性の確保が大変そうではある。
Alternative Hosts / Strain Engineering
宿主や系統株の開発- A streamlined strain engineering workflow with genome-wide screening detects enhanced protein secretion in Komagataella phaffii
- Authors: Ito, Yoichiro; Ishigami, Misa; Terai, Goro; Nakamura, Yasuyuki; Hashiba, Noriko; Nishi, Teruyuki; Nakazawa, Hikaru; Hasunuma, Tomohisa; Asai, Kiyoshi; Umetsu, Mitsuo; Ishii, Jun; Kondo, Akihiko
- Journal: Communications Biology
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-03475-w
- Institution: Kobe University, Japan
形質転換/ゲノム編集周りの難しさが解決できれば、手広くスクリーニングが進みそう。
Computational Biology / Bioinformatics
- Generative aptamer discovery using RaptGen
- Authors: Iwano, Natsuki; Adachi, Tatsuo; Aoki, Kazuteru; Nakamura, Yoshikazu; Hamada, Michiaki
- Journal: Nature Computational Science
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1038/s43588-022-00249-6
- Institution: Waseda University, Japan
- Effector-GAN: prediction of fungal effector proteins based on pretrained deep representation learning methods and generative adversarial networks
- Authors: Wang, Yansu; Luo, Ximei; Zou, Quan
- Journal: Bioinformatics
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac374
- Institution: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
表現学習を広く使えそうな手法で面白い。
- NetSurfP-3.0: accurate and fast prediction of protein structural features by protein language models and deep learning
- Authors: H{\o}ie, Magnus Haraldson; Kiehl, Erik Nicolas; Petersen, Bent; Nielsen, Morten; Winther, Ole; Nielsen, Henrik; Hallgren, Jeppe; Marcatili, Paolo
- Journal: Nucleic acids research
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkac439
- Institution: Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
- Language models can learn complex molecular distributions
- Authors: Flam-Shepherd, Daniel; Zhu, Kevin; Aspuru-Guzik, Al{\'a}n
- Journal: Nature communications
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30839-x
- Institution: University of Tronto, Canada
評価が難しそうだが、大まかなアイデアとしては核酸やタンパク質でも出来るかも?巨大な化合物タスクが難しいかもしれないがBERTや事前学習済みモデルについても比較があれば面白そう。
- Screening membraneless organelle participants with machine-learning models that integrate multimodal features
- Authors: Chen, Zhaoming; Hou, Chao; Wang, Liang; Yu, Chunyu; Chen, Taoyu; Shen, Boyan; Hou, Yaoyao; Li, Pilong; Li, Tingting
- Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2115369119
- Institution: Peking University Health Science Center, China
特徴抽出の選別から実証実験まで丁寧にされていて良かった。
Deep Learning
深層学習を使ったバイオインフォ系のタスク- Assessing sequence-based protein--protein interaction predictors for use in therapeutic peptide engineering
- Authors: Charih, Fran{\c c}ois; Biggar, Kyle K; Green, James R
- Journal: Scientific reports
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-13227-9
- Institution: Carleton University, Canada
工学的に実験が必要な配列を提案する視点でのモデル比較は面白かった。一方で、AF2登場以降は配列ベースの予測に限定する必要がないように思った。
Bioinformatics in general
バイオインフォマティクス一般- Machine learning aided construction of the quorum sensing communication network for human gut microbiota
- Authors: Wu, Shengbo; Feng, Jie; Liu, Chunjiang; Wu, Hao; Qiu, Zekai; Ge, Jianjun; Sun, Shuyang; Hong, Xia; Li, Yukun; Wang, Xiaona; Yang, Aidong; Guo, Fei; Qiao, Jianjun
- Journal: Nature communications
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30741-6
- Institution: Tianjin University, China
実験でどのくらい確度が補完されるか期待。
- AllerCatPro 2.0: a web server for predicting protein allergenicity potential
- Authors: Nguyen, Minh N; Krutz, Nora L; Limviphuvadh, Vachiranee; Lopata, Andreas L; Gerberick, G Frank; Maurer-Stroh, Sebastian
- Journal: Nucleic acids research
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkac446
- Institution: Singapore Institute for Food and Biotechnology Innovation, Singapore
BLASTPのエピトープ類似度探索を3D構造の比較とするのはどうなのか、よく分からなかった。
Biology in general
- Characterization of ColE1 Production for Robust tolC Plate Dual-Selection in E. coli
- Authors: Baas-Thomas, Maximilien S; Oehm, Sebastian B; Ostrov, Nili; Church, George M
- Journal: ACS synthetic biology
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.2c00061
- Institution: Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, USA
lysateとはいえ細胞を混ぜるのは気持ち的に怖いなと感じてしまった。
- Binding of the transcription activator-like effector augments transcriptional regulation by another transcription factor
- Authors: Leben, Katja; Strm{\v s}ek, {\v Z}iga; Lebar, Tina; Verbi{\v c}, An{\v z}e; Dragovan, Matej; Omersa, Ne{\v z}a; Anderluh, Gregor; Jerala, Roman
- Journal: Nucleic acids research
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkac454
- Institution: National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia
新たな作用が明らかとなる面白い結果だった。どの様なメカニズムか実証されるのを期待。