合成生物学論文メモ (Jul 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。19報。
Synthetic Biology
Transcription/Translation Control
遺伝子回路、転写翻訳制御など- Deciphering the Rules of Ribosome Binding Site Differentiation in Context Dependence
- Authors: Duan, Yanting; Zhang, Xiaojuan; Zhai, Weiji; Zhang, Jinpeng; Zhang, Xiaomei; Xu, Guoqiang; Li, Hui; Deng, Zhaohong; Shi, Jinsong; Xu, Zhenghong
- Journal: ACS synthetic biology
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.2c00139
- Institution: Jiangnan University, China
GFP発現量の比較が難しいからだとは思うが、36ntの付加でCDSの異なるコンテクストとして妥当かは少し疑問。
- Developing cyanobacterial quorum sensing toolkits: towards interspecies coordination in mixed autotroph/heterotroph communities
- Authors: Kokarakis, Emmanuel J; Rillema, Rees; Ducat, Daniel C; Sakkos, Jonathan K
- Journal: bioRxiv
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1101/2022.07.20.500858
- Institution: Michigan State University, USA
OFFの時の発現漏れは他のシステムの導入で工夫出来そう。
Cell-free / Reconstruction
無細胞系、再構成など- Rapid Assembly and Prototyping of Biocatalytic Virus-like Particle Nanoreactors
- Authors: Esquirol, Lygie; McNeale, Donna; Douglas, Trevor; Vickers, Claudia E; Sainsbury, Frank
- Journal: ACS synthetic biology
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.2c00117
- Institution: Griffith University, Australia
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- Light-activated mitochondrial fission through optogenetic control of mitochondria-lysosome contacts
- Authors: Qiu, Kangqiang; Zou, Weiwei; Fang, Hongbao; Hao, Mingang; Mehta, Kritika; Tian, Zhiqi; Guan, Jun-Lin; Zhang, Kai; Huang, Taosheng; Diao, Jiajie
- Journal: Nature communications
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-31970-5
- Institution: University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, USA
ミトコンドリアの再結合の方のメカニズムは知らないが、こちらも誘導出来たら面白そう。
Protein Engineering
タンパク質工学- Rotamer-free protein sequence design based on deep learning and self-consistency
- Authors: Liu, Yufeng; Zhang, Lu; Wang, Weilun; Zhu, Min; Wang, Chenchen; Li, Fudong; Zhang, Jiahai; Li, Houqiang; Chen, Quan; Liu, Haiyan
- Journal: Nature Computational Science
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1038/s43588-022-00273-6
- Institution: University of Science and Technology of China, China
事前学習法の工夫が面白かった。デザインの構造->配列ステップは続々と出てきている感じがある。
- De novo design of protein homodimers containing tunable symmetric protein pockets
- Authors: Hicks, Derrick R; Kennedy, Madison A; Thompson, Kirsten A; DeWitt, Michelle; Coventry, Brian; Kang, Alex; Bera, Asim K; Brunette, T J; Sankaran, Banumathi; Stoddard, Barry; Baker, David
- Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2113400119
- Institution: University of Washington, USA
デザインの各ステップが明快だった。水溶性の時点で大分サンプルが削れてしまったのでその点を考慮すればより良さそう。
- Logic-gated antibody pairs that selectively act on cells co-expressing two antigens
- Authors: Oostindie, Simone C; Rinaldi, Derek A; Zom, Gijs G; Wester, Michael J; Paulet, Desiree; Al-Tamimi, Kusai; van der Meijden, Els; Scheick, Jennifer R; Wilpshaar, Tessa; de Jong, Bart; Hoff-van den Broek, Marloes; Grattan, Rachel M; Oosterhoff, Janita J; Vignau, Julie; Verploegen, Sandra; Boross, Peter; Beurskens, Frank J; Lidke, Diane S; Schuurman, Janine; de Jong, Rob N
- Journal: Nature biotechnology
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1038/s41587-022-01384-1
- Institution: Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
二段階でオリゴマーの嗜好性を制御している点が面白かった。
- Natural Evolution Provides Strong Hints about Laboratory Evolution of Designer Enzymes
- Authors: Xie, Wen Jun; Warshel, Arieh
- Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2207904119
- Institution: University of Southern California, USA
事前学習モデルがこれらの特徴をどれ位捉えられているか調べたら面白そう。酵素活性以外の特性にも当てはまるかは検証できると面白い。
CRISPR/Cas
クリスパー系- Recording gene expression order in DNA by CRISPR addition of retron barcodes
- Authors: Bhattarai-Kline, Santi; Lear, Sierra K; Fishman, Chloe B; Lopez, Santiago C; Lockshin, Elana R; Schubert, Max G; Nivala, Jeff; Church, George M; Shipman, Seth L
- Journal: Nature
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04994-6
- Institution: Gladstone Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology, USA
転写の計測に新たな次元が加わった感じで発展性がすごい。色々と最適化の余地はありそうなので期待。
- Engineering Metabolic Pathways for Cofactor Self-Sufficiency and Serotonin Production in Escherichia coli
- Authors: Shen, Peijie; Gu, Suyi; Jin, Dou; Su, Yu; Wu, Hongxuan; Li, Qingchen; Yang, Jinhua; He, Wenjin; Huang, Jianzhong; Qi, Feng
- Journal: ACS synthetic biology
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.2c00298
- Institution: Fujian Normal University, China
- A modular spring-loaded actuator for mechanical activation of membrane proteins
- Authors: Mills, A; Aissaoui, N; Maurel, D; Elezgaray, J; Morvan, F; Vasseur, J J; Margeat, E; Quast, R B; Lai Kee-Him, J; Saint, N; Benistant, C; Nord, A; Pedaci, F; Bellot, G
- Journal: Nature communications
- Year: 2022
- DOI: s41467-022-30745-2
- Institution: Université de Montpellier, France
シンプルにすごい。現状はコレステロールで細胞膜に接着させているが、nanobody等で特異性を持たせることも出来るかもしれないとのこと。
Alternative Hosts / Strain Engineering
宿主や系統株の開発- Engineering Agrobacterium tumefaciens Adhesion to Target Cells
- Authors: Pierrat, Xavier; Pham, Alix; Wong, Jeremy P H; Al-Mayyah, Zainebe; Persat, Alexandre
- Journal: ACS synthetic biology
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.2c00069
- Institution: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
autotransporterのデザインからするのが大変そう、面白かった。
Miscellany
その他- A Modified Yeast Two-Hybrid Platform Enables Dynamic Control of Expression Intensities to Unmask Properties of Protein-Protein Interactions
- Authors: Feuer, Erez; Zimran, Gil; Shpilman, Michal; Mosquna, Assaf
- Journal: ACS synthetic biology
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.2c00192
- Institution: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Computational Biology / Bioinformatics
- Self-supervised deep learning encodes high-resolution features of protein subcellular localization
- Authors: Kobayashi, Hirofumi; Cheveralls, Keith C; Leonetti, Manuel D; Royer, Loic A
- Journal: Nature methods
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1038/s41592-022-01541-z
- Institution: Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, USA
階層的な表現学習は配列に対しても二次構造やIDR予測等で応用できそう。
- ProtGPT2 is a deep unsupervised language model for protein design
- Authors: Ferruz, Noelia; Schmidt, Steffen; H{\o}cker, Birte
- Journal: Nature communications
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32007-7
- Institution: University of Bayreuth, Germany
ドライ側では難しいが、今後の実証実験でどの程度の性能が出るか楽しみ。
- Deep self-supervised learning for biosynthetic gene cluster detection and product classification
- Authors: Rios-Martinez, Carolina; Bhattacharya, Nicholas; Amini, Ava P; Crawford, Lorin; Yang, Kevin K
- Journal: bioRxiv
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1101/2022.07.22.500861
- Institution: Microsoft Research New England, USA
Fine-tuning後の性能が振るわなかったのは残念だが、事前学習後の性能が良いのでdiscussionにもある様にマイニングに良さそう。
- iACVP: markedly enhanced identification of anti-coronavirus peptides using a dataset-specific word2vec model
- Authors: Kurata, Hiroyuki; Tsukiyama, Sho; Manavalan, Balachandran
- Journal: Briefings in bioinformatics
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbac265
- Institution: Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
データセットが小さいとやはり潜在表現を使う方向性の方が良さそう。タンパク質言語モデルの潜在表現は精度が出なかったのかは気になる。
- Tranception: protein fitness prediction with autoregressive transformers and inference-time retrieval
- Authors: Notin, Pascal; Dias, Mafalda; Frazer, Jonathan; Marchena-Hurtado, Javier; Gomez, Aidan; Marks, Debora S; Gal, Yarin
- Journal: arxiv
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 2205.13760
- Institution: University of Oxford, UK
Deep Learning
深層学習を使ったバイオインフォ系のタスク- HelixFold-Single: MSA-free Protein Structure Prediction by Using Protein Language Model as an Alternative
- Authors: Fang, Xiaomin; Wang, Fan; Liu, Lihang; He, Jingzhou; Lin, Dayong; Xiang, Yingfei; Zhang, Xiaonan; Wu, Hua; Li, Hui; Song, Le
- Journal: arxiv
- Year: 2022
- DOI: 2207.13921
- Institution: Baidu Inc., China