Large-scale de novo DNA synthesis: technologies and applications

S Kosuri, GM Church - Nature methods, 2014 - nature.com
For over 60 years, the synthetic production of new DNA sequences has helped researchers
understand and engineer biology. Here we summarize methods and caveats for the de novo …

Concerning RNA-guided gene drives for the alteration of wild populations

KM Esvelt, AL Smidler, F Catteruccia, GM Church - elife, 2014 - elifesciences.org
Gene drives may be capable of addressing ecological problems by altering entire
populations of wild organisms, but their use has remained largely theoretical due to …

Codon bias as a means to fine-tune gene expression

TEF Quax, NJ Claassens, D Söll, J van der Oost - Molecular cell, 2015 - cell.com
The redundancy of the genetic code implies that most amino acids are encoded by multiple
synonymous codons. In all domains of life, a biased frequency of synonymous codons is …

Design of a synthetic yeast genome

SM Richardson, LA Mitchell, G Stracquadanio, K Yang… - Science, 2017 - science.org
We describe complete design of a synthetic eukaryotic genome, Sc2. 0, a highly modified
Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome reduced in size by nearly 8%, with 1.1 megabases of …

Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases

MAR Gomez, M Ibba - Rna, 2020 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
The aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases are an essential and universally distributed family of
enzymes that plays a critical role in protein synthesis, pairing tRNAs with their cognate …

Genomically recoded organisms expand biological functions

MJ Lajoie, AJ Rovner, DB Goodman, HR Aerni… - science, 2013 - science.org
We describe the construction and characterization of a genomically recoded organism
(GRO). We replaced all known UAG stop codons in Escherichia coli MG1655 with …

Hydrogel-based biocontainment of bacteria for continuous sensing and computation

TC Tang, E Tham, X Liu, K Yehl, AJ Rovner… - Nature Chemical …, 2021 - nature.com
Genetically modified microorganisms (GMMs) can enable a wide range of important
applications including environmental sensing and responsive engineered living materials …

Cracking the code: reprogramming the genetic script in prokaryotes and eukaryotes to harness the power of noncanonical amino acids

C Jann, S Giofré, R Bhattacharjee, EA Lemke - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Over 500 natural and synthetic amino acids have been genetically encoded in the last two
decades. Incorporating these noncanonical amino acids into proteins enables many …

Designing logical codon reassignment–Expanding the chemistry in biology

A Dumas, L Lercher, CD Spicer, BG Davis - Chemical science, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the last decade, the ability to genetically encode unnatural amino acids (UAAs) has
evolved rapidly. The programmed incorporation of UAAs into recombinant proteins relies on …

Design, synthesis, and testing toward a 57-codon genome

N Ostrov, M Landon, M Guell, G Kuznetsov, J Teramoto… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Recoding—the repurposing of genetic codons—is a powerful strategy for enhancing
genomes with functions not commonly found in nature. Here, we report computational …