2022 ACS Synthetic Biology Issues

Summary

  • Total Articles Analyzed: 393
  • Total Figures in All Articles: 2068
  • Figures Compatible with SBOL Visual: 595 (28.77%)
  • Figures Compatible with SBOL Visual & Fully Compliant: 487 (81.85%)
  • Figures Compatible with SBOL Visual & Following Best Practices: 245 (41.18%)

Individual issues

January

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Synthetic Biology in Chimeric Antigen Receptor T (CAR T) Cell Engineering33
Advances in Approaches to Study Chromatin-Mediated Epigenetic Memory10
Repurposing the Homing Endonuclease I-SceI for Positive Selection and Development of Gene-Editing Technologies11
Development and Application of a New Arabinose-Inducible Vector in High-Attachment Strain Stenotrophomonas AGS-1 from Aerobic Granular Sludge20
CRISPR-Cas9-mediated Large Cluster Deletion and Multiplex Genome Editing in Paenibacillus polymyxa22
Reprogramming the Biosynthesis of Precursor Peptide to Create a Selenazole-Containing Nosiheptide Analogue33
TALE.Sense: A Versatile DNA Sensor Platform for Live Mammalian Cells40
Engineering a Controllable Targeted Protein Degradation System and a Derived OR-GATE-Type Inducible Gene Expression System in Synechococcus elongatus PCC 794244
Synergistic Metabolism of Glucose and Formate Increases the Yield of Short-Chain Organic Acids in Escherichia coli10
Multiloci Manipulation of Baculovirus Genome Reveals the Pivotal Role of Homologous Regions in Viral DNA Replication, Progeny Production, and Enhancing Transcription10
Incorporation of Functional Rubisco Activases into Engineered Carboxysomes to Enhance Carbon Fixation11
Artificial Consortium of Three E. coli BL21 Strains with Synergistic Functional Modules for Complete Phenanthrene Degradation20
Interaction of Bare dSpCas9, Scaffold gRNA, and Type II Anti-CRISPR Proteins Highly Favors the Control of Gene Expression in the Yeast S. cerevisiae10
Episome-Based Gene Expression Modulation Platform in the Model Diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum41
Cell-Free Gene Expression Dynamics in Synthetic Cell Populations22
Mapping of Nonhomologous End Joining-Mediated Integration Facilitates Genome-Scale Trackable Mutagenesis in Yarrowia lipolytica33
Antibiotic-Efficient Genetic Cassette for the TEM-1 β-Lactamase That Improves Plasmid Performance22
Evolving a Generalist Biosensor for Bicyclic Monoterpenes33
Engineering a Dynamic Controllable Infectivity Switch in Bacteriophage T710
Design and Characterization of an Optogenetic System in Pichia pastoris10
CRISPR-Based Construction of a BL21 (DE3)-Derived Variant Strain Library to Rapidly Improve Recombinant Protein Production44
A Self-Sustained System Spanning the Primary and Secondary Metabolism Stages to Boost the Productivity of Streptomyces87
Bio-SCAN: A CRISPR/dCas9-Based Lateral Flow Assay for Rapid, Specific, and Sensitive Detection of SARS-CoV-210
Cheating the Cheater: Suppressing False-Positive Enrichment during Biosensor-Guided Biocatalyst Engineering33
CS-Cells: A CRISPR-Cas12 DNA Device to Generate Chromosome-Shredded Cells for Efficient and Safe Molecular Biomanufacturing31
Engineering a Synthetic Pathway for Tyrosol Synthesis in Escherichia coli20
CRISPR/Cas-Based Genome Editing for Human Gut Commensal Bacteroides Species22
Engineering of the Ligand Specificity of Transcriptional Regulator XylS by Deep Mutational Scanning11
Building a Versatile Protein Production Platform Using Engineered Trichoderma reesei30
A Tunable and Expandable Transactivation System in Probiotic Yeast Saccharomyces boulardii22

February

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Combating Infectious Diseases with Synthetic Biology20
Construction of Synthetic Microbial Ecosystems and the Regulation of Population Proportion20
Building an RNA-Based Toggle Switch Using Inhibitory RNA Aptamers40
Regulatory Part Engineering for High-Yield Protein Synthesis in an All-Streptomyces-Based Cell-Free Expression System44
EMMA-CAD: Design Automation for Synthetic Mammalian Constructs44
Automation and Expansion of EMMA Assembly for Fast-Tracking Mammalian System Engineering11
Synthetic Biology Toolkit for Marker-Less Integration of Multigene Pathways into Pichia pastoris via CRISPR/Cas922
One-Step In Vivo Assembly of Multiple DNA Fragments and Genomic Integration in Komagataella phaffii30
Conversion of the OmpF Porin into a Device to Gather Amyloids on the E. coli Outer Membrane10
Reduction of the Bacterial Genome by Transposon-Mediated Random Deletion10
Engineering a Xylose-Utilizing Synechococcus elongatus UTEX 2973 Chassis for 3-Hydroxypropionic Acid Biosynthesis under Photomixotrophic Conditions22
Codon-Restrained Method for Both Eliminating and Creating Intragenic Bacterial Promoters33
Differentially Optimized Cell-Free Buffer Enables Robust Expression from Unprotected Linear DNA in Exonuclease-Deficient Extracts55
A Simple Biosensor-Based Assay for Quantitative Autoinducer-2 Analysis20
Enhancement of l-Pipecolic Acid Production by Dynamic Control of Substrates and Multiple Copies of the pipA Gene in the Escherichia coli Genome11
Secretory Production of Tocotrienols in Saccharomyces cerevisiae10
Electrogenetic Signal Transmission and Propagation in Coculture to Guide Production of a Small Molecule, Tyrosine10
Engineered Mutants of a Marine Photosynthetic Purple Nonsulfur Bacterium with Increased Volumetric Productivity of Polyhydroxyalkanoate Bioplastics10
Highly Reversible Tunable Thermal-Repressible Split-T7 RNA Polymerases (Thermal-T7RNAPs) for Dynamic Gene Regulation30
Establishment of Green- and Red-Fluorescent Reporter Proteins Based on the Fluorescence-Activating and Absorption-Shifting Tag for Use in Acetogenic and Solventogenic Anaerobes10
Encoding Genetic Circuits with DNA Barcodes Paves the Way for Machine Learning-Assisted Metabolite Biosensor Response Curve Profiling in Yeast11
Uncovering the Distinct Properties of a Bacterial Type I-E CRISPR Activation System22
GAMES: A Dynamic Model Development Workflow for Rigorous Characterization of Synthetic Genetic Systems10

March

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Synthetic Genetic Reversible Feynman Gate in a Single E. coli Cell and Its Application in Bacterial to Mammalian Cell Information Transfer21
Improving the Robustness of Engineered Bacteria to Nutrient Stress Using Programmed Proteolysis11
Genome Engineering in Mycoplasma gallisepticum Using Exogenous Recombination Systems50
Conjugation-Based Genome Engineering in Deinococcus radiodurans30
Versatile Design of Intracellular Protein-Responsive Translational Regulation System for Synthetic mRNA40
A Dual-Purpose Real-Time Indicator and Transcriptional Integrator for Calcium Detection in Living Cells10
Design of Synthetic Mammalian Promoters Using Highly Palindromic Subsequences10
Engineering Transcription Factor XylS for Sensing Phthalic Acid and Terephthalic Acid: An Application for Enzyme Evolution11
Systematic In Vivo Characterization of Fluorescent Protein Maturation in Budding Yeast10
Precise Thermal Regulation of Engineered Bacteria Secretion for Breast Cancer Treatment In Vivo20
Heterologous Synthesis and Secretion of Ricinoleic Acid in Starmerella bombicola with Sophorolipid as an Intermediate11
Cre/lox-Mediated Chromosomal Integration of Biosynthetic Gene Clusters for Heterologous Expression in Aspergillus nidulans22
Metabolic Division in an Escherichia coli Coculture System for Efficient Production of Kaempferide55
Programmable Synthetic Upstream Activating Sequence Library for Fine-Tuning Gene Expression Levels in Saccharomyces cerevisiae22
RNA Compensation: A Positive Feedback Insulation Strategy for RNA-Based Transcription Networks40
PASIV: A Pooled Approach-Based Workflow to Overcome Toxicity-Induced Design of Experiments Failures and Inefficiencies33
Polymer Encapsulation of Bacterial Biosensors Enables Coculture with Mammalian Cells11
Transcriptome Analysis of Bacillus licheniformis for Improving Bacitracin Production11
RoboMoClo: A Robotics-Assisted Modular Cloning Framework for Multiple Gene Assembly in Biofoundry66

April

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Designing Biological Circuits: From Principles to Applications11
Bioorthogonal Chemical Epigenetic Modifiers Enable Dose-Dependent CRISPR Targeted Gene Activation in Mammalian Cells21
Parameterized Computational Framework for the Description and Design of Genetic Circuits of Morphogenesis Based on Contact-Dependent Signaling and Changes in Cell–Cell Adhesion51
Phage Enzyme-Assisted Direct In Vivo DNA Assembly in Multiple Microorganisms11
A CRISPR–Cas9 System-Mediated Genetic Disruption and Multi-fragment Assembly in Starmerella bombicola55
DNA Input Classification by a Riboregulator-Based Cell-Free Perceptron40
[NiFe] Hydrogenase Accessory Proteins HypB–HypC Accelerate Proton Conversion to Enhance the Acid Resistance and d-Lactic Acid Production of Escherichia coli10
Construction and Application of a High-Throughput In Vivo Screening Platform for the Evolution of Nitrile Metabolism-Related Enzymes Based on a Desensitized Repressive Biosensor50
Genomic Iterative Replacements of Large Synthetic DNA Fragments in Corynebacterium glutamicum30
De Novo Production of Plant 4′-Deoxyflavones Baicalein and Oroxylin A from Ethanol in Crabtree-Negative Yeast11
A Versatile Transcription Factor Biosensor System Responsive to Multiple Aromatic and Indole Inducers22

May

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Synthetic Translational Regulation by Protein-Binding RNA Origami Scaffolds44
DeepTESR: A Deep Learning Framework to Predict the Degree of Translational Elongation Short Ramp for Gene Expression Control11
Transcriptional Interference in Toehold Switch-Based RNA Circuits44
Simulation-Based Engineering of Time-Delayed Safety Switches for Safer Gene Therapies22
Increased Production of Riboflavin by Coordinated Expression of Multiple Genes in Operons in Bacillus subtilis30
Exploration of Methanomethylophilus alvus Pyrrolysyl-tRNA Synthetase Activity in Yeast10
Tuning Geraniol Biosynthesis via a Novel Decane-Responsive Promoter in Candida glycerinogenes10
Engineering Antisense Oligonucleotides as Antibacterial Agents That Target FMN Riboswitches and Inhibit the Growth of Staphylococcus aureus, Listeria monocytogenes, and Escherichia coli10
Combining CRISPR–Cpf1 and Recombineering Facilitates Fast and Efficient Genome Editing in Escherichia coli33
Rerouting Fluxes of the Central Carbon Metabolism and Relieving Mechanism-Based Inactivation of l-Aspartate-α-decarboxylase for Fermentative Production of β-Alanine in Escherichia coli10
LOICA: Integrating Models with Data for Genetic Network Design Automation22

June

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Transcription-Associated Fluorescence-Activated Droplet Sorting for Di-rhamnolipid Hyperproducers11
Temporal Expression of Transcription Factor ID2 Improves Natural Killer Cell Differentiation from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells10
Characterization of ColE1 Production for Robust tolC Plate Dual-Selection in E. coli10
Cell-Free Mutant Analysis Combined with Structure Prediction of a Lasso Peptide Biosynthetic Protease B211
Efficient Synthesis of Phycocyanobilin by Combinatorial Metabolic Engineering in Escherichia coli10
High-Throughput Regulatory Part Prototyping and Analysis by Cell-Free Protein Synthesis and Droplet Microfluidics31
Efficient Single-Nucleotide Microbial Genome Editing Achieved Using CRISPR/Cpf1 with Maximally 3′-End-Truncated crRNAs11
Dynamic Control Strategy to Produce Riboflavin with Lignocellulose Hydrolysate in the Thermophile Geobacillus thermoglucosidasius22

July

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The Growth Dependent Design Constraints of Transcription-Factor-Based Metabolite Biosensors54
Optimal LentiCRISPR-Based System for Sequential CRISPR/Cas9 Screens10
Engineering a Synthetic Dopamine-Responsive Riboswitch for In Vitro Biosensing10
High-Throughput Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Engineering for Genetic Code Expansion in Yeast10
Control-Based Continuation: A New Approach to Prototype Synthetic Gene Networks11
Machine Learning Guided Batched Design of a Bacterial Ribosome Binding Site11
Light-Induced Patterning of Electroactive Bacterial Biofilms11
Mitigating Host Burden of Genetic Circuits by Engineering Autonegatively Regulated Parts and Improving Functional Prediction55
Tunable Temperature-Sensitive Transcriptional Activation Based on Lambda Repressor22
pySBOL3: SBOL3 for Python Programmers11

August

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Standardization of Synthetic Biology Tools and Assembly Methods for Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Emerging Yeast Species65
PeroxiHUB: A Modular Cell-Free Biosensing Platform Using H2O2 as Signal Integrator20
A Modified Yeast Two-Hybrid Platform Enables Dynamic Control of Expression Intensities to Unmask Properties of Protein–Protein Interactions10
Second-Generation Escherichia coli SuptoxR Strains for High-Level Recombinant Membrane Protein Production10
Decoupling Growth and Production by Removing the Origin of Replication from a Bacterial Chromosome10
Implementation of a Novel Optogenetic Tool in Mammalian Cells Based on a Split T7 RNA Polymerase50
Engineering Agrobacterium tumefaciens Adhesion to Target Cells10
Engineering Critical Amino Acid Residues of Lanosterol Synthase to Improve the Production of Triterpenoids in Saccharomyces cerevisiae10
Whole-Cell Biosensor and Producer Co-cultivation-Based Microfludic Platform for Screening Saccharopolyspora erythraea with Hyper Erythromycin Production10
Rapid Assembly and Prototyping of Biocatalytic Virus-like Particle Nanoreactors30
Deciphering the Rules of Ribosome Binding Site Differentiation in Context Dependence20
Building the Plant SynBio Toolbox through Combinatorial Analysis of DNA Regulatory Elements20
Proteolytically Activated CRAC Effectors through Designed Intramolecular Inhibition30
Synergistic Improvement of 5-Aminolevulinic Acid Production with Synthetic Scaffolds and System Pathway Engineering10
Transfer RNA Synthesis-Coupled Translation and DNA Replication in a Reconstituted Transcription/Translation System20
Integrating CRISPR-Cas12a with a crRNA-Mediated Catalytic Network for the Development of a Modular and Sensitive Aptasensor22
Stress-Tolerant, Recyclable, and Renewable Biocatalyst Platform Enabled by Engineered Bacterial Spores44
Engineering Metabolic Pathways for Cofactor Self-Sufficiency and Serotonin Production in Escherichia coli44
BMSS2: A Unified Database-Driven Modeling Tool for Systematic Biomodel Selection10

September

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Overcoming Leak Sensitivity in CRISPRi Circuits Using Antisense RNA Sequestration and Regulatory Feedback44
Malarial Antibody Detection with an Engineered Yeast Agglutination Assay11
Genome Editing by CRISPR/Cas12 Recognizing AT-Rich PAMs in Shewanella oneidensis MR-144
Mobile Translation Systems Generate Genomically Engineered Escherichia coli Cells with Improved Growth Phenotypes10
An Easy-to-Use Plasmid Toolset for Efficient Generation and Benchmarking of Synthetic Small RNAs in Bacteria20
Prebiotics-Controlled Disposable Engineered Bacteria for Intestinal Diseases52
Evolution-Guided Biosynthesis of Terpenoid Inhibitors20
Nitrogenase Cofactor Maturase NifB Isolated from Transgenic Rice is Active in FeMo-co Synthesis10
GB_SynP: A Modular dCas9-Regulated Synthetic Promoter Collection for Fine-Tuned Recombinant Gene Expression in Plants40
CRISPR/Cpf1-Mediated Multiplex and Large-Fragment Gene Editing in Staphylococcus aureus52
A Network Approach to Genetic Circuit Designs32
Modular Use of the Uniquely Small Ring A of Mersacidin Generates the Smallest Ribosomally Produced Lanthipeptide10
Enzymatic Supercoiling of Bacterial Chromosomes Facilitates Genome Manipulation10
Inducible CRISPR/Cas9 Allows for Multiplexed and Rapidly Segregated Single-Target Genome Editing in Synechocystis Sp. PCC 680371
A Universal Method for Developing Autoinduction Expression Systems Using AHL-Mediated Quorum-Sensing Circuits22

October

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Intestinal Engineered Probiotics as Living Therapeutics: Chassis Selection, Colonization Enhancement, Gene Circuit Design, and Biocontainment41
Interaction between the Anchoring Domain of A-Kinase Anchoring Proteins and the Dimerization and Docking Domain of Protein Kinase A: A Potent Tool for Synthetic Biology10
Synonymous Codons and Hydrophobicity Optimization of Post-translational Signal Peptide PelB Increase Phage Display Efficiency of DARPins10
A p-Coumaroyl-CoA Biosensor for Dynamic Regulation of Naringenin Biosynthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae20
A Versatile in Vivo DNA Assembly Toolbox for Fungal Strain Engineering11
Steady-State Operation of a Cell-Free Genetic Band-Detection Circuit22
Construction of an rAAV Producer Cell Line through Synthetic Biology10
Novel Split Intein-Mediated Enzymatic Channeling Accelerates the Multimeric Bioconversion Pathway of Ginsenoside22
Reprogramming the Cleavage Specificity of Botulinum Neurotoxin Serotype B130
SpyPhage: A Cell-Free TXTL Platform for Rapid Engineering of Targeted Phage Therapies21
Optogenetic Control of Bacterial Expression by Red Light10
Induced CD45 Proximity Potentiates Natural Killer Cell Receptor Antagonism20
Efficient Bacterial Genome Engineering throughout the Central Dogma Using the Dual-Selection Marker tetAOPT51
Reprogramming T7RNA Polymerase in Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 under Specific Lac Operon for Efficient p-Coumaric Acid Production30
Light-Dependent Control of Bacterial Expression at the mRNA Level32
Discovery and Heterologous Expression of Microginins from Microcystis aeruginosa LEGE 9134133
Engineered Protein Nanocages for Concurrent RNA and Protein Packaging In Vivo21
Building an Artificial Plant Cell Wall on a Lipid Bilayer by Assembling Polysaccharides and Engineered Proteins10
Analysis of Slow-Cycling Variants of the Light-Inducible Nuclear Protein Export System LEXY in Mammalian Cells10
GroovDB: A Database of Ligand-Inducible Transcription Factors20
The VEGAS Platform Is Unsuitable for Mammalian Directed Evolution21

November

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Engineered Spore-Forming Bacillus as a Microbial Vessel for Long-Term DNA Data Storage20
Harnessing Escherichia coli’s Native Machinery for Detection of Vitamin C (Ascorbate) Deficiency20
Unusual Class I Lanthipeptides from the Marine Bacteria Thalassomonas viridans32
Synthetic Biology Toolbox, Including a Single-Plasmid CRISPR-Cas9 System to Biologically Engineer the Electrogenic, Metal-Resistant Bacterium Cupriavidus metallidurans CH3421
Genome-Wide Screen for Enhanced Noncanonical Amino Acid Incorporation in Yeast20
AgeMTPT, a Catalyst for Peptide N-Terminal Modification11
Genetic Code Expansion in Pseudomonas putida KT244022
Synthetic Platforms for Characterizing and Targeting of SARS-CoV-2 Genome Capping Enzymes44
MGCEP 1.0: A Genetic-Engineered Marine-Derived Chassis Cell for a Scaled Heterologous Expression Platform of Microbial Bioactive Metabolites31
Comparison of Kill Switch Toxins in Plant-Beneficial Pseudomonas fluorescens Reveals Drivers of Lethality, Stability, and Escape31
Engineering a Rhodopsin-Based Photo-Electrosynthetic System in Bacteria for CO2 Fixation10
Zymo-Parts: A Golden Gate Modular Cloning Toolbox for Heterologous Gene Expression in Zymomonas mobilis10
EasyGuide Plasmids Support in Vivo Assembly of gRNAs for CRISPR/Cas9 Applications in Saccharomyces cerevisiae10

December

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Ribosome Stalling of N-Linked Glycoproteins in Cell-Free Extracts11
Robotic Construction and Screening of Lanthipeptide Variant Libraries in Escherichia coli22
Targeting Transcriptional and Translational Hindrances in a Modular T7RNAP Expression System in Engineered Pseudomonas putida80
Two-Layered Microfluidic Devices for High-Throughput Dynamic Analysis of Synthetic Gene Circuits in E. coli33
High Titer of (S)-Equol Synthesis from Daidzein in Escherichia coli30
Tuning of Gene Expression in Clostridium phytofermentans Using Synthetic Promoters and CRISPRi40
Hybrid Nucleic Acid-Quantum Dot Assemblies as Multiplexed Reporter Platforms for Cell-Free Transcription Translation-Based Biosensors11
Rapid and Accurate Assembly of Large DNA Assisted by In Vitro Packaging of Bacteriophage63
Computer-Based Design of a Cell Factory for High-Yield Cytidine Production11
Enzymatic Synthesis of DNA with an Expanded Genetic Alphabet Using Terminal Deoxynucleotidyl Transferase11
Modulating DHA-Producing Schizochytrium sp. toward Astaxanthin Biosynthesis via a Seamless Genome Editing System43
Characterization of Eight Bacterial Biosensors for Microbial Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications10
Autoinduction Expression Modules for Regulating Gene Expression in Bacillus subtilis22