Designing a synthetic moss genome using GenoDesigner

W Yu, S Zhang, S Zhao, L Chen, J Cao, H Ye, J Yan… - Nature plants, 2024 - nature.com
The de novo synthesis of genomes has made unprecedented progress and achieved
milestones, particularly in bacteria and yeast. However, the process of synthesizing a …

The design and engineering of synthetic genomes

JS James, J Dai, WL Chew, Y Cai - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Synthetic genomics seeks to design and construct entire genomes to mechanistically dissect
fundamental questions of genome function and to engineer organisms for diverse …

Debugging and consolidating multiple synthetic chromosomes reveals combinatorial genetic interactions

Y Zhao, C Coelho, AL Hughes, L Lazar-Stefanita… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The Sc2. 0 project is building a eukaryotic synthetic genome from scratch. A major milestone
has been achieved with all individual Sc2. 0 chromosomes assembled. Here, we describe …

[HTML][HTML] Context-dependent neocentromere activity in synthetic yeast chromosome VIII

S Lauer, J Luo, L Lazar-Stefanita, W Zhang… - Cell Genomics, 2023 - cell.com
Pioneering advances in genome engineering, and specifically in genome writing, have
revolutionized the field of synthetic biology, propelling us toward the creation of synthetic …

Consequences of a telomerase-related fitness defect and chromosome substitution technology in yeast synIX strains

LH McCulloch, V Sambasivam, AL Hughes, N Annaluru… - Cell Genomics, 2023 - cell.com
We describe the complete synthesis, assembly, debugging, and characterization of a
synthetic 404,963 bp chromosome, synIX (synthetic chromosome IX). Combined …

Building synthetic chromosomes from natural DNA

ALV Coradini, CN Ville, ZA Krieger, J Roemer… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
De novo chromosome synthesis is costly and time-consuming, limiting its use in research
and biotechnology. Building synthetic chromosomes from natural components is an …

The choreography of chromatin in RNA polymerase III regulation

ME van Breugel, A Gerber… - Biochemical Society …, 2024 - portlandpress.com
Regulation of eukaryotic gene expression involves a dynamic interplay between the core
transcriptional machinery, transcription factors, and chromatin organization and modification …

Construction and iterative redesign of synXVI a 903 kb synthetic Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosome

HD Goold, H Kroukamp, PE Erpf, Y Zhao… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
The Sc2. 0 global consortium to design and construct a synthetic genome based on the
Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome commenced in 2006, comprising 16 synthetic …

Mechanisms and regulation of spliceosome‐mediated pre‐mRNA splicing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

KA Senn, AA Hoskins - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Pre‐mRNA splicing, the removal of introns and ligation of flanking exons, is a crucial step in
eukaryotic gene expression. The spliceosome, a macromolecular complex made up of five …

Chromosome Engineering: Technologies, Applications, and Challenges

Y Mao, Y Zhao, Q Zhou, W Li - Annual Review of Animal …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Chromosome engineering is a transformative field at the cutting edge of biological science,
offering unprecedented precision in manipulating large-scale genomic DNA within cells …