2023 ACS Synthetic Biology Issues

Summary

  • Total Articles Analyzed: 344
  • Total Figures in All Articles: 1766
  • Figures Compatible with SBOL Visual: 378 (21.4%)
  • Figures Compatible with SBOL Visual & Fully Compliant: 279 (73.81%)
  • Figures Compatible with SBOL Visual & Following Best Practices: 138 (36.51%)

Individual issues

January

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Engineering the Biosynthesis of Late-Stage Vinblastine Precursors Precondylocarpine Acetate, Catharanthine, Tabersonine in Nicotiana benthamiana30
Continuous Directed Evolution of a Feedback-Resistant Arabidopsis Arogenate Dehydratase in Plantized Escherichia coli10
A Logically Reversible Double Feynman Gate with Molecular Engineered Bacteria Arranged in an Artificial Neural Network-Type Architecture10
CaExTun: Mitigating Cas9-Related Toxicity in Streptomyces through Species-Specific Expression Tuning with Randomized Constitutive Promoters22
Coupling Cell Communication and Optogenetics: Implementation of a Light-Inducible Intercellular System in Yeast20
Genetically Encoded Detection of Biosynthetic Protease Inhibitors20
Reconstitution of Multi-Protein Complexes through Ribozyme-Assisted Polycistronic Co-Expression10
Tuning the Transcriptional Activity of the CaMV 35S Promoter in Plants by Single-Nucleotide Changes in the TATA Box11
Engineering Pheromone-Mediated Quorum Sensing with Enhanced Response Output Increases Fucosyllactose Production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae33
Developing Cyanobacterial Quorum Sensing Toolkits: Toward Interspecies Coordination in Mixed Autotroph/Heterotroph Communities10
Simple and Rapid Non-ribosomal Peptide Synthetase Gene Assembly Using the SEAM–OGAB Method30
A Universal Strategy to Promote Secretion of G+/G– Bacterial Extracellular Vesicles and Its Application in Host Innate Immune Responses10

February

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Circular Guide RNA for Improved Stability and CRISPR-Cas9 Editing Efficiency in Vitro and in Bacteria10
A Dueling-Competent Signal-Sensing Module Guides Precise Delivery of Cargo Proteins into Target Cells by Engineered Pseudomonas aeruginosa10
Signal Peptide Efficiency: From High-Throughput Data to Prediction and Explanation10
Mechanistic Insights into Cell-Free Gene Expression through an Integrated -Omics Analysis of Extract Processing Methods30
Titrating Avidity of Yeast-Displayed Proteins Using a Transcriptional Regulator11
Modular Engineering Strategy to Redirect Electron Flux into the Electron-Transfer Chain for Enhancing Extracellular Electron Transfer in Shewanella oneidensis55
A Ubiquitous Chromatin Opening Element and DNA Demethylation Facilitate Doxycycline-Controlled Expression during Differentiation and in Transgenic Mice33
Engineering the Substrate Specificity of Toluene Degrading Enzyme XylM Using Biosensor XylS and Machine Learning11
Simplified Construction of Engineered Bacillus subtilis Host for Improved Expression of Proteins Harboring Noncanonical Amino Acids10
Tail-Engineered Phage P2 Enables Delivery of Antimicrobials into Multiple Gut Pathogens33
A Suite of New Strain Construction Vectors for Gene Expression Knockdown in Budding Yeast30

March

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A Biological OR(XNOR) Logic Gate Couples Carbon Source and Transgene Expression Switching in a Komagataella phaffii (Pichia pastoris) Strain Co-producing Process-Enhancing Lipase and a Virus-like Particle (VLP) Vaccine11
Optical Control of Cell Signaling with Red/Far-Red Light-Responsive Optogenetic Tools in Caenorhabditis elegans10
P1 Bacteriophage-Enabled Delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 Antimicrobial Activity Against Shigella flexneri31
Chimeric MerR-Family Regulators and Logic Elements for the Design of Metal Sensitive Genetic Circuits in Bacillus subtilis40
Construction of Osmotic Pressure Responsive Vacuole-like Bacterial Organelles with Capsular Polysaccharides as Building Blocks11
New Target Gene Screening Using Shortened and Random sgRNA Libraries in Microbial CRISPR Interference22
Simulations Reveal High Efficiency and Confinement of a Population Suppression CRISPR Toxin-Antidote Gene Drive10
Metabolic Engineering for Efficient Ketocarotenoid Accumulation in the Green Microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii33
Autoinduction AND Gate Inhibits Cell Lysis to Enhance Protein Production in Bacillus subtilis Controlled by Population Density and Cell Physiological State44
In Silico Prediction and Mining of Exporters for Secretory Bioproduction of Terpenoids in Saccharomyces cerevisiae10
Engineering Modular and Highly Sensitive Cell-Based Biosensors for Aromatic Contaminant Monitoring and High-Throughput Enzyme Screening20
SynBioSuite: A Tool for Improving the Workflow for Genetic Design and Modeling11

April

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Directed Evolution of Aerotolerance in Sulfide-Dependent Thiazole Synthases11
Marine Biofilm Engineered to Produce Current in Response to Small Molecules33
Inducible Synthetic Growth Regulation Using the ClpXP Proteasome Enhances cis,cis-Muconic Acid and Glycolic Acid Yields in Saccharomyces cerevisiae10
Standard Intein Gene Expression Ramps (SIGER) for Protein-Independent Expression Control22
Reconstruction of the Native Biosynthetic System of Carotenoids in E. coli─Biosynthesis of a Series of Carotenoids Specific to Paprika Fruit11
Design of Four Small-Molecule-Inducible Systems in the Yeast Chromosome, Applied to Optimize Terpene Biosynthesis22
Modular Pathway Compartmentalization for Agroclavine Overproduction in Saccharomyces cerevisiae10
Clonal Amplification-Enhanced Gene Expression in Synthetic Vesicles66
CRISPR/Cas12a-Mediated Genome Editing in Thioalkalivibrio versutus22
Indirect Enrichment of Desirable, but Less Fit Phenotypes, from a Synthetic Microbial Community Using Microdroplet Confinement10
In Vitro Transcription/Translation-Coupled DNA Replication through Partial Regeneration of 20 Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases44
Experimental Data Connector (XDC): Integrating the Capture of Experimental Data and Metadata Using Standard Formats and Digital Repositories11

May

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Sourcing Phage-Encoded Terminators Using ONT-cappable-seq for SynBio Applications in Pseudomonas11
TFBMiner: A User-Friendly Command Line Tool for the Rapid Mining of Transcription Factor-Based Biosensors11
A Suite of Constitutive Promoters for Tuning Gene Expression in Plants54
Design Approaches to Expand the Toolkit for Building Cotranscriptionally Encoded RNA Strand Displacement Circuits11
Immortalized Bovine Satellite Cells for Cultured Meat Applications11

June

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Engineering Outer Membrane Vesicles to Increase Extracellular Electron Transfer of Shewanella oneidensis30
Cell-Free Biosensing Genetic Circuit Coupled with Ribozyme Cleavage Reaction for Rapid and Sensitive Detection of Small Molecules22
In Vivo Sampling of Intracellular Heterogeneity of Pseudomonas putida Enables Multiobjective Optimization of Genetic Devices33
Global Transcriptome-Guided Identification of Neutral Sites for Engineering Synechococcus elongatus PCC 1180110
Modulating Sensitivity of an Erythromycin Biosensor for Precise High-Throughput Screening of Strains with Different Characteristics21
Constructing Marine Bacterial Metabolic Chassis for Potential Biorefinery of Red Algal Biomass and Agaropectin Wastes21
Engineering an Efficient Expression Using Heterologous GAL Promoters and Transcriptional Activators in Saccharomyces cerevisiae10
Characterizing a Propionate Sensor in E. coli Nissle 191711

July

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Construction and Applications of Mammalian Cell-Based DNA-Encoded Peptide/Protein Libraries30
Application of CRISPR in Filamentous Fungi and Macrofungi: From Component Function to Development Potentiality20
Understanding Autologous Spliceostatin Transcriptional Regulation to Derive Parts for Heterologous Expression in a Burkholderia Bacterial Host22
Remotely Controllable Engineered Bacteria for Targeted Therapy of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infection20
Assembly of Microbial Communities Engaging in Metabolic Division of Labor in a Diffusion-Limited Environment Is Governed by Metabolic Flux10
CRISPR-Associated Transposase for Targeted Mutagenesis in Diverse Proteobacteria11
Systematic Part Transfer by Extending a Modular Toolkit to Diverse Bacteria21
Bayesian Optimization for Design of Multiscale Biological Circuits11
Programmable Acetylation Modification of Bacterial Proteins by a Cas12a-Guided Acetyltransferase10
Modular and Flexible Molecular Device for Simultaneous Cytosine and Adenine Base Editing at Random Genomic Loci in Filamentous Fungi10
Leaderless Bicistronic Design for Precise and Reliable Control of Gene Expression in Corynebacterium Glutamicum20
Developing a Base Editing System for Marine Roseobacter Clade Bacteria32
RNA-Guided DNA Transposition in Corynebacterium glutamicum and Bacillus subtilis22

August

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Noise Minimization in Cell-Free Gene Expression33
Plasmid Copy Number Engineering Accelerates Fungal Polyketide Discovery upon Unnatural Polyketide Biosynthesis20
Identifying Antisense Oligonucleotides to Disrupt Small RNA Regulated Antibiotic Resistance via a Cell-Free Transcription–Translation Platform11
Engineered Artificial Human Neutrophils Exhibit Mature Functional Performance10
Targeted In Vivo Mutagenesis in Yeast Using CRISPR/Cas9 and Hyperactive Cytidine and Adenine Deaminases22
Multiplicity of the Agrobacterium Infection of Nicotiana benthamiana for Transient DNA Delivery10
Systems Analysis of Highly Multiplexed CRISPR-Base Editing in Streptomycetes11
Deep Neural Networks for Predicting Single-Cell Responses and Probability Landscapes10
Cell Free Bacteriophage Synthesis from Engineered Strains Improves Yield10
A Cell-Free Biosensor for Assessment of Hyperhomocysteinemia11

September

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Dual Input-Controlled Synthetic mRNA Circuit for Bidirectional Protein Expression Regulation30
Tailored Synthetic sRNAs Dynamically Tune Multilayer Genetic Circuits30
Tuning Methylation-Dependent Silencing Dynamics by Synthetic Modulation of CpG Density10
CRAPS: Chromosomal-Repair-Assisted Pathway Shuffling in Yeast31
Algorithmic Programming of Sequential Logic and Genetic Circuits for Recording Biochemical Concentration in a Probiotic Bacterium33
Design–Build–Test of Synthetic Promoters for Inducible Gene Regulation in Alphaproteobacteria50
Systematic Engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Chassis for Efficient Flavonoid-7-O-Disaccharide Biosynthesis20
Engineering a Streptococcus Cas9 Ortholog with an RxQ PAM-Binding Motif for PAM-Free Gene Control in Bacteria11
Improved Combinatorial Assembly and Barcode Sequencing for Gene-Sized DNA Constructs10
A Layered Genetic Design Enables the Yeast Galactose Regulon to Respond to Cyanamide10

October

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Signal Amplification for Cell-Free Biosensors, an Analog-to-Digital Converter33
Comprehensive Screening of a Light-Inducible Split Cre Recombinase with Domain Insertion Profiling11
Plasmid Crosstalk in Cell-Free Expression Systems43
Automated Design of Synthetic Gene Circuits in the Presence of Molecular Noise22
At-Home, Cell-Free Synthetic Biology Education Modules for Transcriptional Regulation and Environmental Water Quality Monitoring20
Development of CRISPR/Cas9-Based Genome Editing Tools for Polyploid Yeast Cyberlindnera jadinii and Its Application in Engineering Heterologous Steroid-Producing Strains20
Metabolic Engineering of Pichia pastoris for High-Level Production of Lycopene10
Conditional Control of Universal CAR T Cells by Cleavable OFF-Switch Adaptors10
Engineering the Maize Root Microbiome: A Rapid MoClo Toolkit and Identification of Potential Bacterial Chassis for Studying Plant–Microbe Interactions20
Synthetic Gene Circuits Combining CRISPR Interference and CRISPR Activation in E. coli: Importance of Equal Guide RNA Binding Affinities to Avoid Context-Dependent Effects44
Development of an Efficient Recombinant Protein Expression System in Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum Based on the Bacteriophage T7 System20
Development of a CRISPR/Cas9D10A Nickase (nCas9)-Mediated Genome Editing Tool in Streptomyces11

November

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Module-Based Polyketide Synthase Engineering for de Novo Polyketide Biosynthesis22
Investigating and Modeling the Factors That Affect Genetic Circuit Performance11
Combining Fusion of Cells with CRISPR-Cas9 Editing for the Cloning of Large DNA Fragments or Complete Bacterial Genomes in Yeast11
Toward Minimal Transcription–Translation Machinery31
Efficient Protein Expression and Biosynthetic Gene Cluster Regulation in Bacillus subtilis Driven by a T7-BOOST System21
Maximizing Heterologous Expression of Engineered Type I Polyketide Synthases: Investigating Codon Optimization Strategies30
Cold Exposure and Oral Delivery of GLP-1R Agonists by an Engineered Probiotic Yeast Strain Have Antiobesity Effects in Mice11
Heterologous Single-Strand DNA-Annealing and Binding Protein Enhance CRISPR-Based Genome Editing Efficiency in Komagataella phaffii30
Nonsterilized Fermentation of Crude Glycerol for Polyhydroxybutyrate Production by Metabolically Engineered Vibrio natriegens32
Developing the Limosilactobacillus reuteri Chassis through an Endogenous Programmable Endonuclease-Based Genome Editing Tool50

December

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Automated Platform for the Plasmid Construction Process10
Tunable Dynamics in a Multistrain Transcriptional Pulse Generator11
Standardization of Fluorescent Reporter Assays in Synthetic Biology across the Visible Light Spectrum11
Synthetic Biology Toolbox for Nitrogen-Fixing Soil Microbes21
Yeast Metabolic Engineering for Biosynthesis of Caffeic Acid-Derived Phenethyl Ester and Phenethyl Amide10
Standardized Representation of Parts and Assembly for Build Planning66
MS2 Virus-like Particles as a Versatile Peptide Presentation Platform: Insights into the Deterministic Abilities for Accommodating Heterologous Peptide Lengths10
Establishing Tunable Genetic Logic Gates with Versatile Dynamic Performance by Varying Regulatory Parameters60
Using Methyl Bromide for Interspecies Cell–Cell Signaling and As a Reporter in a Model Soil Consortium22
GENETTA: a Network-Based Tool for the Analysis of Complex Genetic Designs11
Changes in Coding and Efficiency through Modular Modifications to a One Pot PURE System for In Vitro Transcription and Translation22