[HTML][HTML] De novo protein design—From new structures to programmable functions

T Kortemme - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Methods from artificial intelligence (AI) trained on large datasets of sequences and
structures can now" write" proteins with new shapes and molecular functions de novo …

Inteins: A Swiss army knife for synthetic biology

S Anastassov, M Filo, M Khammash - Biotechnology Advances, 2024 - Elsevier
Inteins are proteins found in nature that execute protein splicing. Among them, split inteins
stand out for their versatility and adaptability, presenting creative solutions for addressing …

Targeting protein–ligand neosurfaces with a generalizable deep learning tool

A Marchand, S Buckley, A Schneuing, M Pacesa… - Nature, 2025 - nature.com
Molecular recognition events between proteins drive biological processes in living systems.
However, higher levels of mechanistic regulation have emerged, in which protein–protein …

Integrating bioelectronics with cell-based synthetic biology

J Rivnay, R Raman, JT Robinson, C Schreib… - Nature Reviews …, 2025 - nature.com
Biohybrid devices based on engineered cells interfaced with bioelectronics represent a
promising union where the strengths of each field can be synergistically combined, resulting …

Limits on the computational expressivity of non-equilibrium biophysical processes

C Floyd, AR Dinner, A Murugan… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Many biological decision-making processes can be viewed as performing a classification
task over a set of inputs, using various chemical and physical processes as" biological …

[HTML][HTML] What can protein circuit design learn from DNA nanotechnology?

D Yu, X Fan, Z Chen - Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Protein circuit design is still in its infancy in terms of programmability. DNA nanotechnology,
however, excels at this property and its community has created a myriad of circuits and …

Distinguishing genelet circuit input pulses via a pulse detector

C Yancey, R Schulman - Natural Computing, 2024 - Springer
Chemical systems have the potential to direct the next generation of dynamic materials if
they can be integrated with a material while acting as the material's own regulatory network …

Targeting protein-ligand neosurfaces using a generalizable deep learning approach

A Marchand, S Buckley, A Schneuing, M Pacesa… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Molecular recognition events between proteins drive biological processes in living systems.
However, higher levels of mechanistic regulation have emerged, where protein-protein …

A designed Zn2+ sensor domain transmits binding information to transmembrane histidine kinases

AK Hatstat, R Kormos, V Xu, WF DeGrado - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Generating stimulus-responsive, allosteric signaling de novo is a significant challenge in
protein design. In natural systems like bacterial histidine kinases (HKs), signal transduction …

Light-directed evolution of dynamic, multi-state, and computational protein functionalities

V Gligorovski, M Labagnara, SJ Rahi - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Directed evolution is a powerful method in biological engineering. Current approaches draw
on time-invariant selection mechanisms, ideal for evolving steady-state properties such as …