The computational capabilities of many-to-many protein interaction networks

HE Klumpe, J Garcia-Ojalvo, MB Elowitz, YE Antebi - Cell Systems, 2023 - cell.com
Many biological circuits comprise sets of protein variants that interact with one another in a
many-to-many, or promiscuous, fashion. These architectures can provide powerful …

[HTML][HTML] Context-aware synthetic biology by controller design: Engineering the mammalian cell

N Shakiba, RD Jones, R Weiss, D Del Vecchio - Cell systems, 2021 - cell.com
The rise of systems biology has ushered a new paradigm: the view of the cell as a system
that processes environmental inputs to drive phenotypic outputs. Synthetic biology provides …

Programmable synthetic receptors: the next-generation of cell and gene therapies

F Teng, T Cui, L Zhou, Q Gao, Q Zhou… - Signal Transduction and …, 2024 - nature.com
Cell and gene therapies hold tremendous promise for treating a range of difficult-to-treat
diseases. However, concerns over the safety and efficacy require to be further addressed in …

Acoustically triggered mechanotherapy using genetically encoded gas vesicles

A Bar-Zion, A Nourmahnad, DR Mittelstein… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Recent advances in molecular engineering and synthetic biology provide biomolecular and
cell-based therapies with a high degree of molecular specificity, but limited spatiotemporal …

Chemically engineered immune cell‐derived microrobots and biomimetic nanoparticles: emerging biodiagnostic and therapeutic tools

LP Jahromi, MA Shahbazi, A Maleki, A Azadi… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past decades, considerable attention has been dedicated to the exploitation of
diverse immune cells as therapeutic and/or diagnostic cell‐based microrobots for hard‐to …

Engineering receptors in the secretory pathway for orthogonal signalling control

M Mahameed, P Wang, S Xue… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Synthetic receptors targeted to the secretory pathway often fail to exhibit the expected
activity due to post-translational modifications (PTMs) and/or improper folding. Here, we …

A comprehensive comparison between camelid nanobodies and single chain variable fragments

Y Asaadi, FF Jouneghani, S Janani… - Biomarker Research, 2021 - Springer
By the emergence of recombinant DNA technology, many antibody fragments have been
developed devoid of undesired properties of natural immunoglobulins. Among them …

Biological cells as therapeutic delivery vehicles

LM Bush, CP Healy, SB Javdan, JC Emmons… - Trends in …, 2021 - cell.com
One of the significant challenges remaining in the field of drug delivery is insufficient
targeting of diseased tissues or cells. While efforts to perform targeted drug delivery by …

Therapeutic cell engineering: designing programmable synthetic genetic circuits in mammalian cells

M Mansouri, M Fussenegger - Protein & Cell, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Cell therapy approaches that employ engineered mammalian cells for on-demand
production of therapeutic agents in the patient's body are moving beyond proof-of-concept in …

Programmable DARPin-based receptors for the detection of thrombotic markers

T Strittmatter, Y Wang, A Bertschi, L Scheller… - Nature chemical …, 2022 - nature.com
Cellular therapies remain constrained by the limited availability of sensors for disease
markers. Here we present an integrated target-to-receptor pipeline for constructing a …