State of the art in CRISPR/Cas system-based signal conversion and amplification applied in the field of food analysis

B Lu, Z Guo, K Zhong, T Osire, Y Sun, L Jiang - Trends in Food Science & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Food safety is a major global public health issue. The majority of traditional
culture-based methods have lengthy detection times, require sophisticated sample …

Harnessing DNA computing and nanopore decoding for practical applications: from informatics to microRNA-targeting diagnostics

S Takiguchi, N Takeuchi, V Shenshin… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
DNA computing represents a subfield of molecular computing with the potential to become a
significant area of next-generation computation due to the high programmability inherent in …

RNA folding kinetics control riboswitch sensitivity in vivo

DZ Bushhouse, J Fu, JB Lucks - Nature Communications, 2025 - nature.com
Riboswitches are ligand-responsive gene-regulatory RNA elements that perform key roles in
maintaining cellular homeostasis. Understanding how riboswitch sensitivity to ligand (EC50) …

Cell-free biosensors based on modular eukaryotic riboswitches that function in one pot at ambient temperature

A Ogawa, M Fujikawa, K Onishi… - ACS Synthetic …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Artificial riboswitches responsive to user-defined analytes can be constructed by
successfully inserting in vitro selected aptamers, which bind to the analytes, into …

Genetically encoded biosensor engineering for application in directed evolution

Y Mao, C Huang, X Zhou, R Han… - … of Microbiology and …, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Although rational genetic engineering is nowadays the favored method for microbial strain
improvement, building up mutant libraries based on directed evolution for improvement is …

[HTML][HTML] Gene circuit-based sensors

X Guo, M Li, X Zuo - Fundamental Research, 2024 - Elsevier
As an important branch of biosensors, gene circuit-based biosensors constructed based on
synthetic biology concepts can sense specific substances to be measured and converted …

Tuning strand displacement kinetics enables programmable ZTP riboswitch dynamic range in vivo

DZ Bushhouse, JB Lucks - Nucleic acids research, 2023 - academic.oup.com
A large body of work has shown that transcriptional riboswitches function through internal
strand displacement mechanisms that guide the formation of alternative structures which …

Advances in ligand-specific biosensing for structurally similar molecules

C **, J Diao, TS Moon - Cell systems, 2023 - cell.com
The specificity of biological systems makes it possible to develop biosensors targeting
specific metabolites, toxins, and pollutants in complex medical or environmental samples …

Bacterial 5'UTR: A treasure-trove for post-transcriptional regulation

YJ Liu, X Wang, Y Sun, Y Feng - Biotechnology Advances, 2024 - Elsevier
In bacteria, where gene transcription and translation occur concurrently, post-transcriptional
regulation is acknowledged to be effective and precise. The 5′ untranslated regions …

Target-responsive triplex aptamer nanoswitch enables label-free and ultrasensitive detection of antibody in human serum via lighting-up RNA aptamer transcriptions

J Yang, T Chen, Q **ang, D Li, W Zhou, F Xu - Talanta, 2024 - Elsevier
Accurate and sensitive monitoring of the concentration change of anti-digoxigenin (Anti-Dig)
antibody is of great importance for diagnosing infectious and immunological diseases …