2018 ACS Synthetic Biology Issues

Summary

  • Total Articles Analyzed: 305
  • Total Figures in All Articles: 1615
  • Figures Compatible with SBOL Visual: 429 (26.56%)
  • Figures Compatible with SBOL Visual & Fully Compliant: 242 (56.41%)
  • Figures Compatible with SBOL Visual & Following Best Practices: 98 (22.84%)

Individual issues

January

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Multiplexed CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Editing and Gene Regulation Using Csy4 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae30
Design and Selection of a Synthetic Feedback Loop for Optimizing Biofuel Tolerance20
Dynamic Control of Aptamer–Ligand Activity Using Strand Displacement Reactions22
Reconfigurable Analog Signal Processing by Living Cells10
Corynebacterium glutamicum Chassis C1*: Building and Testing a Novel Platform Host for Synthetic Biology and Industrial Biotechnology11
A Modular Receptor Platform To Expand the Sensing Repertoire of Bacteria31
A Prototype for Modular Cell Engineering44
Engineering an E. coli Near-Infrared Light Sensor22
Development of a Pigment-Based Whole-Cell Zinc Biosensor for Human Serum11

February

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Part by Part: Synthetic Biology Parts Used in Solventogenic Clostridia22
Gene-Mediated Chemical Communication in Synthetic Protocell Communities11
Metabolic Feedback Circuits Provide Rapid Control of Metabolite Dynamics32
Native and Engineered Clifednamide Biosynthesis in Multiple Streptomyces spp.11
High-CO2 Requirement as a Mechanism for the Containment of Genetically Modified Cyanobacteria11
Functional Characterization of Insulation Effect for Synthetic Gene Circuits in Mammalian Cells30
Perfect Adaptation and Optimal Equilibrium Productivity in a Simple Microbial Biofuel Metabolic Pathway Using Dynamic Integral Control11
TARSyn: Tunable Antibiotic Resistance Devices Enabling Bacterial Synthetic Evolution and Protein Production55
Sporobeads: The Utilization of the Bacillus subtilis Endospore Crust as a Protein Display Platform21
A Workflow for In Vivo Evaluation of Candidate Inputs and Outputs for Cell Classifier Gene Circuits31
An Autoregulated Fine-Tuning Strategy for Titer Improvement of Secondary Metabolites Using Native Promoters in Streptomyces20
Quantitatively Predictable Control of Cellular Protein Levels through Proteasomal Degradation20
Orthogonality and Burdens of Heterologous AND Gate Gene Circuits in E. coli20
New Intracellular Shikimic Acid Biosensor for Monitoring Shikimate Synthesis in Corynebacterium glutamicum21
Toward Predictable 5′UTRs in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Development of a yUTR Calculator41
Reprogramming One-Carbon Metabolic Pathways To Decouple l-Serine Catabolism from Cell Growth in Corynebacterium glutamicum21
Photosynthetic Production of Sunscreen Shinorine Using an Engineered Cyanobacterium11
SynBioHub: A Standards-Enabled Design Repository for Synthetic Biology11
Biosynthesis of Orthogonal Molecules Using Ferredoxin and Ferredoxin-NADP+ Reductase Systems Enables Genetically Encoded PhyB Optogenetics50
Molecular Toolkit for Gene Expression Control and Genome Modification in Rhodococcus opacus PD63010

March

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Labeling RNAs in Live Cells Using Malachite Green Aptamer Scaffolds as Fluorescent Probes33
Directed Evolution of Membrane Transport Using Synthetic Selections11
Rewiring Calcium Signaling for Precise Transcriptional Reprogramming31
Reconstructing Dynamic Promoter Activity Profiles from Reporter Gene Data10
Tandem Histone-Binding Domains Enhance the Activity of a Synthetic Chromatin Effector20
Multilevel Regulation of Bacterial Gene Expression with the Combined STAR and Antisense RNA System31
Expanding One-Pot Cell-Free Protein Synthesis and Immobilization for On-Demand Manufacturing of Biomaterials11
Modular Engineering Intracellular NADH Regeneration Boosts Extracellular Electron Transfer of Shewanella oneidensis MR-122
Ratiometric Gas Reporting: A Nondisruptive Approach To Monitor Gene Expression in Soils32

April

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Engineering a Dual Small Molecule Gated ZAP70 Switch in T Cells11
Cell-Free Optogenetic Gene Expression System22
A Rhamnose-Inducible System for Precise and Temporal Control of Gene Expression in Cyanobacteria11
T7 Polymerase Expression of Guide RNAs in vivo Allows Exportable CRISPR-Cas9 Editing in Multiple Yeast Hosts10
Engineered Production of Short-Chain Acyl-Coenzyme A Esters in Saccharomyces cerevisiae10
Generation of a Synthetic Human Chromosome with Two Centromeric Domains for Advanced Epigenetic Engineering Studies40
Development of a Plasmid-Free Biosynthetic Pathway for Enhanced Muconic Acid Production in Pseudomonas chlororaphis HT6631

May

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Engineering the Ultrasensitive Transcription Factors by Fusing a Modular Oligomerization Domain11
Mathematical Modeling of RNA-Based Architectures for Closed Loop Control of Gene Expression10
Reprogramming Probiotic Lactobacillus reuteri as a Biosensor for Staphylococcus aureus Derived AIP-I Detection20
Exploring the Promiscuity of Phenol Hydroxylase from Pseudomonas stutzeri OX1 for the Biosynthesis of Phenolic Compounds11
Engineering Extracellular Expression Systems in Escherichia coli Based on Transcriptome Analysis and Cell Growth State10
Modularization and Response Curve Engineering of a Naringenin-Responsive Transcriptional Biosensor51
Overproduction of Fatty Acid Ethyl Esters by the Oleaginous Yeast Yarrowia lipolytica through Metabolic Engineering and Process Optimization11
An Automated Design Framework for Multicellular Recombinase Logic32
A Transcription Factor-Based Biosensor for Detection of Itaconic Acid22

June

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Engineering a Functional Small RNA Negative Autoregulation Network with Model-Guided Design20
An Engineered Device for Indoleacetic Acid Production under Quorum Sensing Signals Enables Cupriavidus pinatubonensis JMP134 To Stimulate Plant Growth11
Probing Intercell Variability Using Bulk Measurements10
Tracking of Engineered Bacteria In Vivo Using Nonstandard Amino Acid Incorporation11

July

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Rationalizing Context-Dependent Performance of Dynamic RNA Regulatory Devices22
Mutually Orthogonal DNA Replication Systems In Vivo30
Exploring the Nonconserved Sequence Space of Synthetic Expression Modules in Bacillus subtilis11

August

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Predicting Transcriptional Output of Synthetic Multi-input Promoters30
Promoter Engineering for Enhanced P(3HB-co-4HB) Production by Halomonas bluephagenesis20
An Engineered Constitutive Promoter Set with Broad Activity Range for Cupriavidus necator H1642
Fluorescent Guide RNAs Facilitate Development of Layered Pol II-Driven CRISPR Circuits30

September

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Human Artificial Chromosome with Regulated Centromere: A Tool for Genome and Cancer Studies61
A Biosensor Strategy for E. coli Based on Ligand-Dependent Stabilization10
Engineering Riboswitches in Vivo Using Dual Genetic Selection and Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorting10
A Synthetic Microbial Operational Amplifier40
A Single-Component Optogenetic System Allows Stringent Switch of Gene Expression in Yeast Cells20
Birth of a Photosynthetic Chassis: A MoClo Toolkit Enabling Synthetic Biology in the Microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii62
Identification of Novel Cryptic Multifunctional Antimicrobial Peptides from the Human Stomach Enabled by a Computational–Experimental Platform10
A Split Transcriptional Repressor That Links Protein Solubility to an Orthogonal Genetic Circuit40
A Robust and Quantitative Reporter System To Evaluate Noncanonical Amino Acid Incorporation in Yeast20
Quorum Sensing Can Be Repurposed To Promote Information Transfer between Bacteria in the Mammalian Gut11
Metabolic Engineering of Escherichia coli for Efficient Production of 2-Pyrone-4,6-dicarboxylic Acid from Glucose20
Large Scale Synthetic Site Saturation GPCR Libraries Reveal Novel Mutations That Alter Glucose Signaling20

October

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A Genetically Encoded Protein Polymer for Uranyl Binding and Extraction Based on the SpyTag–SpyCatcher Chemistry11
A Genetically Encoded Biosensor for Monitoring Isoprene Production in Engineered Escherichia coli31
Artificial Repeat-Structured siRNA Precursors as Tunable Regulators for Saccharomyces cerevisiae40
Enhancing Light-Driven 1,3-Propanediol Production by Using Natural Compartmentalization of Differentiated Cells32

November

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Rational Control of Calcium Carbonate Precipitation by Engineered Escherichia coli10
Transcription Driven by Reversible Photocontrol of Hyperstable G-Quadruplexes10
Regulation of Gene Expression and Signaling Pathway Activity in Mammalian Cells by Automated Microfluidics Feedback Control20
Systematic Analysis of Bottlenecks in a Multibranched and Multilevel Regulated Pathway: The Molecular Fundamentals of l-Methionine Biosynthesis in Escherichia coli10
Retroelement-Based Genome Editing and Evolution40
Programming the Dynamic Control of Bacterial Gene Expression with a Chimeric Ligand- and Light-Based Promoter System31
A Yeast-Based Biosensor for Screening of Short- and Medium-Chain Fatty Acid Production11
Highly Multiplexed CRISPRi Repression of Respiratory Functions Enhances Mitochondrial Localized Ethyl Acetate Biosynthesis in Kluyveromyces marxianus11
Enhancing the Translational Capacity of E. coli by Resolving the Codon Bias11

December

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Selective Enrichment of Slow-Growing Bacteria in a Metabolism-Wide CRISPRi Library with a TIMER Protein11
Cell-Based Biosensor with Dual Signal Outputs for Simultaneous Quantification of Phenylacetic Acid and Phenylethylamine10
A Genetic Circuit Compiler: Generating Combinatorial Genetic Circuits with Web Semantics and Inference22
Genomic Deoxyxylulose Phosphate Reductoisomerase (DXR) Mutations Conferring Resistance to the Antimalarial Drug Fosmidomycin in E. coli10
An Optimized Bistable Metabolic Switch To Decouple Phenotypic States during Anaerobic Fermentation41
Sigma Factor-Mediated Tuning of Bacterial Cell-Free Synthetic Genetic Oscillators33
Phosphate Lock Residues of Acidothermus cellulolyticus Cas9 Are Critical to Its Substrate Specificity21