Genetically encoded biosensors for microbial synthetic biology: from conceptual frameworks to practical applications

W Yu, X Xu, K **, Y Liu, J Li, G Du, X Lv, L Liu - Biotechnology Advances, 2023 - Elsevier
Genetically encoded biosensors are the vital components of synthetic biology and metabolic
engineering, as they are regarded as powerful devices for the dynamic control of genotype …

The hitchhikers' guide to RNA sequencing and functional analysis

JW Chen, L Shrestha, G Green, A Leier… - Briefings in …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
DNA and RNA sequencing technologies have revolutionized biology and biomedical
sciences, sequencing full genomes and transcriptomes at very high speeds and reasonably …

RB-TnSeq identifies genetic targets for improved tolerance of Pseudomonas putida towards compounds relevant to lignin conversion

AJ Borchert, A Bleem, GT Beckham - Metabolic Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Lignin-derived mixtures intended for bioconversion commonly contain high concentrations
of aromatic acids, aliphatic acids, and salts. The inherent toxicity of these chemicals places a …

Recombinant Pseudomonas growing on non-natural fluorinated substrates shows stress but overall tolerance to cytoplasmically released fluoride anion

AG Dodge, CJ Thoma, MR O'Connor, LP Wackett - Mbio, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
Microbial response to toxic fluoride anion has traditionally been studied by adding inorganic
fluoride salts to growth media. Fluoride is known to spontaneously transit the membrane as …

[HTML][HTML] Advancing the scale of synthetic biology via cross-species transfer of cellular functions enabled by iModulon engraftment

D Choe, CA Olson, R Szubin, H Yang, J Sung… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Machine learning applied to large compendia of transcriptomic data has enabled
the decomposition of bacterial transcriptomes to identify independently modulated sets of …

Systems biology of competency in Vibrio natriegens is revealed by applying novel data analytics to the transcriptome

J Shin, K Rychel, BO Palsson - Cell Reports, 2023 - cell.com
Vibrio natriegens regulates natural competence through the TfoX and QstR transcription
factors, which are involved in external DNA capture and transport. However, the extensive …

Evolution and engineering of pathways for aromatic O-demethylation in Pseudomonas putida KT2440

AC Bleem, E Kuatsjah, J Johnsen, ET Mohamed… - Metabolic …, 2024 - Elsevier
Biological conversion of lignin from biomass offers a promising strategy for sustainable
production of fuels and chemicals. However, aromatic compounds derived from lignin …

A multi-scale expression and regulation knowledge base for Escherichia coli

CR Lamoureux, KT Decker, AV Sastry… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Transcriptomic data is accumulating rapidly; thus, scalable methods for extracting
knowledge from this data are critical. Here, we assembled a top-down expression and …

Laboratory evolution, transcriptomics, and modeling reveal mechanisms of paraquat tolerance

K Rychel, J Tan, A Patel, C Lamoureux, Y Hefner… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
Relationships between the genome, transcriptome, and metabolome underlie all evolved
phenotypes. However, it has proved difficult to elucidate these relationships because of the …

iModulonMiner and PyModulon: software for unsupervised mining of gene expression compendia

AV Sastry, Y Yuan, S Poudel, K Rychel… - PLOS Computational …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Public gene expression databases are a rapidly expanding resource of organism responses
to diverse perturbations, presenting both an opportunity and a challenge for bioinformatics …