Tuning Promoter Strength through RNA Polymerase Binding Site Design in Escherichia coli

RC Brewster, DL Jones, R Phillips - PLoS computational biology, 2012 - journals.plos.org
One of the paramount goals of synthetic biology is to have the ability to tune transcriptional
networks to targeted levels of expression at will. As a step in that direction, we have …

Comprehensive profiling of diverse genetic reporters with application to whole-cell and cell-free biosensors

A Lopreside, X Wan, E Michelini, A Roda… - Analytical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Whole-cell and cell-free transcription-translation biosensors have recently become favorable
alternatives to conventional detection methods, as they are cost-effective, environmental …

Distinct mechanisms coordinate transcription and translation under carbon and nitrogen starvation in Escherichia coli

S Iyer, D Le, BR Park, M Kim - Nature microbiology, 2018 - nature.com
Bacteria adapt to environmental stress by producing proteins that provide stress protection.
However, stress can severely perturb the kinetics of gene expression, disrupting protein …

Mechanisms of drug interactions between translation-inhibiting antibiotics

B Kavčič, G Tkačik, T Bollenbach - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Antibiotics that interfere with translation, when combined, interact in diverse and difficult-to-
predict ways. Here, we explain these interactions by “translation bottlenecks”: points in the …

The highly rugged yet navigable regulatory landscape of the bacterial transcription factor TetR

CA Westmann, L Goldbach, A Wagner - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) are important sources of evolutionary innovations.
Understanding how evolution navigates the sequence space of such sites can be achieved …

[HTML][HTML] Tuning transcriptional regulation through signaling: a predictive theory of allosteric induction

M Razo-Mejia, SL Barnes, NM Belliveau, G Chure… - Cell systems, 2018 - cell.com
Allosteric regulation is found across all domains of life, yet we still lack simple, predictive
theories that directly link the experimentally tunable parameters of a system to its input …

Tunable transcription factor library for robust quantification of regulatory properties in Escherichia coli

V Parisutham, S Chhabra, MZ Ali… - Molecular Systems …, 2022 - embopress.org
Predicting the quantitative regulatory function of transcription factors (TFs) based on factors
such as binding sequence, binding location, and promoter type is not possible. The …

Operator sequence alters gene expression independently of transcription factor occupancy in bacteria

HG Garcia, A Sanchez, JQ Boedicker, M Osborne… - Cell reports, 2012 - cell.com
A canonical quantitative view of transcriptional regulation holds that the only role of operator
sequence is to set the probability of transcription factor binding, with operator occupancy …

Local genetic context shapes the function of a gene regulatory network

A Nagy-Staron, K Tomasek, C Caruso Carter… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Gene expression levels are influenced by multiple coexisting molecular mechanisms. Some
of these interactions such as those of transcription factors and promoters have been studied …

Elimination of carbon catabolite repression in Clostridium acetobutylicum—a journey toward simultaneous use of xylose and glucose

M Bruder, M Moo-Young, DA Chung… - Applied microbiology and …, 2015 - Springer
The industrial Gram-positive anaerobe Clostridium acetobutylicum is a valued acetone,
butanol, and ethanol (ABE) solvent producer that is able to utilize a vast array of carbon …