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2014-2015 Journal Club Date Time Location Paper Moderator 21-Apr 11:00 am Spilker 143 Enquist-Newman Kate 19-May 11:00 am Spilker 143 Lee & Church Joy 16-Jun 11:00 am Spilker 143 Xiong Yanran 21- Jul 11:00am SC 262 Hansen, et al. Kathy 25-Aug 11:00am SC 262 Xu, et al. Isis Sep Remus Oct Yen-Hsiang Nov Melina Dec Kate Jan Peter Feb Maureen Mar Michale Apr Stephanie May Shireen Jun Ben Jul Joy Paper to be discussed Xiong M, Schneiderman DK, Bates FS, Hillmyer MA, and Zhang K. Scalable production of mechanically tunable block polymers from sugar. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Jun 10;111(23):8357-62. DOI:10.1073/pnas.1404596111 | Interesting Papers suggestions with pmid links. Click on an author name to go to the paper OR click on the HubMed link at the bottom of the page to see all abstracts. Duss O, Michel E, Yulikov M, Schubert M, Jeschke G, and Allain FH. Structural basis of the non-coding RNA RsmZ acting as a protein sponge. Nature. 2014 May 29;509(7502):588-92. DOI:10.1038/nature13271 | Wang BL, Ghaderi A, Zhou H, Agresti J, Weitz DA, Fink GR, and Stephanopoulos G. Microfluidic high-throughput culturing of single cells for selection based on extracellular metabolite production or consumption. Nat Biotechnol. 2014 May;32(5):473-8. DOI:10.1038/nbt.2857 | Annaluru N, Muller H, Mitchell LA, Ramalingam S, Stracquadanio G, Richardson SM, Dymond JS, Kuang Z, Scheifele LZ, Cooper EM, Cai Y, Zeller K, Agmon N, Han JS, Hadjithomas M, Tullman J, Caravelli K, Cirelli K, Guo Z, London V, Yeluru A, Murugan S, Kandavelou K, Agier N, Fischer G, Yang K, Martin JA, Bilgel M, Bohutski P, Boulier KM, Capaldo BJ, Chang J, Charoen K, Choi WJ, Deng P, DiCarlo JE, Doong J, Dunn J, Feinberg JI, Fernandez C, Floria CE, Gladowski D, Hadidi P, Ishizuka I, Jabbari J, Lau CY, Lee PA, Li S, Lin D, Linder ME, Ling J, Liu J, Liu J, London M, Ma H, Mao J, McDade JE, McMillan A, Moore AM, Oh WC, Ouyang Y, Patel R, Paul M, Paulsen LC, Qiu J, Rhee A, Rubashkin MG, Soh IY, Sotuyo NE, Srinivas V, Suarez A, Wong A, Wong R, Xie WR, Xu Y, Yu AT, Koszul R, Bader JS, Boeke JD, and Chandrasegaran S. Total synthesis of a functional designer eukaryotic chromosome. Science. 2014 Apr 4;344(6179):55-8. DOI:10.1126/science.1249252 | Kotula JW, Kerns SJ, Shaket LA, Siraj L, Collins JJ, Way JC, and Silver PA. Programmable bacteria detect and record an environmental signal in the mammalian gut. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Apr 1;111(13):4838-43. DOI:10.1073/pnas.1321321111 | Birmingham WR, Starbird CA, Panosian TD, Nannemann DP, Iverson TM, and Bachmann BO. Bioretrosynthetic construction of a didanosine biosynthetic pathway. Nat Chem Biol. 2014 May;10(5):392-9. DOI:10.1038/nchembio.1494 | Lian J, Si T, Nair NU, and Zhao H. Design and construction of acetyl-CoA overproducing Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains. Metab Eng. 2014 Jul;24:139-49. DOI:10.1016/j.ymben.2014.05.010 | Xu Y, Zhou T, Zhang S, Espinosa-Artiles P, Wang L, Zhang W, Lin M, Gunatilaka AA, Zhan J, and Molnár I. Diversity-oriented combinatorial biosynthesis of benzenediol lactone scaffolds by subunit shuffling of fungal polyketide synthases. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Aug 26;111(34):12354-9. DOI:10.1073/pnas.1406999111 | This last HubMed link seems to work. Click on it to bring up all the abstracts. This should facilitate voting. To add your paper this way, get the pmid from pubmed, and follow the format when editing. The PubMed link doesn't seem to work. Anyone know why? Past Papers Past papers Wang X, Lu Z, Gomez A, Hon GC, Yue Y, Han D, Fu Y, Parisien M, Dai Q, Jia G, Ren B, Pan T, and He C. N6-methyladenosine-dependent regulation of messenger RNA stability. Nature. 2014 Jan 2;505(7481):117-20. DOI:10.1038/nature12730 | Chapman EG, Costantino DA, Rabe JL, Moon SL, Wilusz J, Nix JC, and Kieft JS. The structural basis of pathogenic subgenomic flavivirus RNA (sfRNA) production. Science. 2014 Apr 18;344(6181):307-10. DOI:10.1126/science.1250897 | Fica SM, Tuttle N, Novak T, Li NS, Lu J, Koodathingal P, Dai Q, Staley JP, and Piccirilli JA. RNA catalyses nuclear pre-mRNA splicing. Nature. 2013 Nov 14;503(7475):229-34. DOI:10.1038/nature12734 | Fica SM, Mefford MA, Piccirilli JA, and Staley JP. Evidence for a group II intron-like catalytic triplex in the spliceosome. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2014 May;21(5):464-471. DOI:10.1038/nsmb.2815 | Lee K, Cui Y, Lee LP, and Irudayaraj J. Quantitative imaging of single mRNA splice variants in living cells. Nat Nanotechnol. 2014 Jun;9(6):474-80. DOI:10.1038/nnano.2014.73 | Lee JH, Daugharthy ER, Scheiman J, Kalhor R, Yang JL, Ferrante TC, Terry R, Jeanty SS, Li C, Amamoto R, Peters DT, Turczyk BM, Marblestone AH, Inverso SA, Bernard A, Mali P, Rios X, Aach J, and Church GM. Highly multiplexed subcellular RNA sequencing in situ. Science. 2014 Mar 21;343(6177):1360-3. DOI:10.1126/science.1250212 | Saldaña-Meyer R, González-Buendía E, Guerrero G, Narendra V, Bonasio R, Recillas-Targa F, and Reinberg D. CTCF regulates the human p53 gene through direct interaction with its natural antisense transcript, Wrap53. Genes Dev. 2014 Apr 1;28(7):723-34. DOI:10.1101/gad.236869.113 | Liu Y, Samuel BS, Breen PC, and Ruvkun G. Caenorhabditis elegans pathways that surveil and defend mitochondria. Nature. 2014 Apr 17;508(7496):406-10. DOI:10.1038/nature13204 | Cao J, Arha M, Sudrik C, Schaffer DV, and Kane RS. Bidirectional regulation of mRNA translation in mammalian cells by using PUF domains. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2014 May 5;53(19):4900-4. DOI:10.1002/anie.201402095 | Church GM, Elowitz MB, Smolke CD, Voigt CA, and Weiss R. Realizing the potential of synthetic biology. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2014 Apr;15(4):289-94. DOI:10.1038/nrm3767 | Karas BJ, Jablanovic J, Irvine E, Sun L, Ma L, Weyman PD, Gibson DG, Glass JI, Venter JC, Hutchison CA 3rd, Smith HO, and Suzuki Y. Transferring whole genomes from bacteria to yeast spheroplasts using entire bacterial cells to reduce DNA shearing. Nat Protoc. 2014 Apr;9(4):743-50. DOI:10.1038/nprot.2014.045 | Ding Y, Tang Y, Kwok CK, Zhang Y, Bevilacqua PC, and Assmann SM. In vivo genome-wide profiling of RNA secondary structure reveals novel regulatory features. Nature. 2014 Jan 30;505(7485):696-700. DOI:10.1038/nature12756 | Ding BJ, Hofvander P, Wang HL, Durrett TP, Stymne S, and Löfstedt C. A plant factory for moth pheromone production. Nat Commun. 2014 Feb 25;5:3353. DOI:10.1038/ncomms4353 | Velagapudi SP, Gallo SM, and Disney MD. Sequence-based design of bioactive small molecules that target precursor microRNAs. Nat Chem Biol. 2014 Apr;10(4):291-7. DOI:10.1038/nchembio.1452 | Blazeck J, Hill A, Liu L, Knight R, Miller J, Pan A, Otoupal P, and Alper HS. Harnessing Yarrowia lipolytica lipogenesis to create a platform for lipid and biofuel production. Nat Commun. 2014;5:3131. DOI:10.1038/ncomms4131 | Avendaño MS, Leidy C, and Pedraza JM. Tuning the range and stability of multiple phenotypic states with coupled positive-negative feedback loops. Nat Commun. 2013;4:2605. DOI:10.1038/ncomms3605 | Qi L, Lucks JB, Liu CC, Mutalik VK, and Arkin AP. Engineering naturally occurring trans-acting non-coding RNAs to sense molecular signals. Nucleic Acids Res. 2012 Jul;40(12):5775-86. DOI:10.1093/nar/gks168 | Alberts B, Kirschner MW, Tilghman S, and Varmus H. Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Apr 22;111(16):5773-7. DOI:10.1073/pnas.1404402111 | Creasey KM, Zhai J, Borges F, Van Ex F, Regulski M, Meyers BC, and Martienssen RA. miRNAs trigger widespread epigenetically activated siRNAs from transposons in Arabidopsis. Nature. 2014 Apr 17;508(7496):411-5. DOI:10.1038/nature13069 | Olson EJ, Hartsough LA, Landry BP, Shroff R, and Tabor JJ. Characterizing bacterial gene circuit dynamics with optically programmed gene expression signals. Nat Methods. 2014 Apr;11(4):449-55. DOI:10.1038/nmeth.2884 | Fossati E, Ekins A, Narcross L, Zhu Y, Falgueyret JP, Beaudoin GA, Facchini PJ, and Martin VJ. Reconstitution of a 10-gene pathway for synthesis of the plant alkaloid dihydrosanguinarine in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nat Commun. 2014;5:3283. DOI:10.1038/ncomms4283 | Lienert F, Lohmueller JJ, Garg A, and Silver PA. Synthetic biology in mammalian cells: next generation research tools and therapeutics. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2014 Feb;15(2):95-107. DOI:10.1038/nrm3738 | Enquist-Newman M, Faust AM, Bravo DD, Santos CN, Raisner RM, Hanel A, Sarvabhowman P, Le C, Regitsky DD, Cooper SR, Peereboom L, Clark A, Martinez Y, Goldsmith J, Cho MY, Donohoue PD, Luo L, Lamberson B, Tamrakar P, Kim EJ, Villari JL, Gill A, Tripathi SA, Karamchedu P, Paredes CJ, Rajgarhia V, Kotlar HK, Bailey RB, Miller DJ, Ohler NL, Swimmer C, and Yoshikuni Y. Efficient ethanol production from brown macroalgae sugars by a synthetic yeast platform. Nature. 2014 Jan 9;505(7482):239-43. DOI:10.1038/nature12771 | Bogorad IW, Lin TS, and Liao JC. Synthetic non-oxidative glycolysis enables complete carbon conservation. 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A logic-gated nanorobot for targeted transport of molecular payloads. Science. 2012 Feb 17;335(6070):831-4. DOI:10.1126/science.1214081 | Fu J, Bian X, Hu S, Wang H, Huang F, Seibert PM, Plaza A, Xia L, Müller R, Stewart AF, and Zhang Y. Full-length RecE enhances linear-linear homologous recombination and facilitates direct cloning for bioprospecting. Nat Biotechnol. 2012 May;30(5):440-6. DOI:10.1038/nbt.2183 | Paige JS, Wu KY, and Jaffrey SR. RNA mimics of green fluorescent protein. Science. 2011 Jul 29;333(6042):642-6. DOI:10.1126/science.1207339 | Paige JS, Nguyen-Duc T, Song W, and Jaffrey SR. Fluorescence imaging of cellular metabolites with RNA. Science. 2012 Mar 9;335(6073):1194. DOI:10.1126/science.1218298 | Pinheiro VB, Taylor AI, Cozens C, Abramov M, Renders M, Zhang S, Chaput JC, Wengel J, Peak-Chew SY, McLaughlin SH, Herdewijn P, and Holliger P. Synthetic genetic polymers capable of heredity and evolution. Science. 2012 Apr 20;336(6079):341-4. 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Microbial production of short-chain alkanes. Nature. 2013 Oct 24;502(7472):571-4. DOI:10.1038/nature12536 | Salmena L, Poliseno L, Tay Y, Kats L, and Pandolfi PP. A ceRNA hypothesis: the Rosetta Stone of a hidden RNA language?. Cell. 2011 Aug 5;146(3):353-8. DOI:10.1016/j.cell.2011.07.014 | Cong L, Ran FA, Cox D, Lin S, Barretto R, Habib N, Hsu PD, Wu X, Jiang W, Marraffini LA, and Zhang F. Multiplex genome engineering using CRISPR/Cas systems. Science. 2013 Feb 15;339(6121):819-23. DOI:10.1126/science.1231143 | Mali P, Yang L, Esvelt KM, Aach J, Guell M, DiCarlo JE, Norville JE, and Church GM. RNA-guided human genome engineering via Cas9. Science. 2013 Feb 15;339(6121):823-6. DOI:10.1126/science.1232033 | Hwang WY, Fu Y, Reyon D, Maeder ML, Tsai SQ, Sander JD, Peterson RT, Yeh JR, and Joung JK. Efficient genome editing in zebrafish using a CRISPR-Cas system. Nat Biotechnol. 2013 Mar;31(3):227-9. DOI:10.1038/nbt.2501 | Jiang W, Bikard D, Cox D, Zhang F, and Marraffini LA. RNA-guided editing of bacterial genomes using CRISPR-Cas systems. Nat Biotechnol. 2013 Mar;31(3):233-9. DOI:10.1038/nbt.2508 | Cho SW, Kim S, Kim JM, and Kim JS. Targeted genome engineering in human cells with the Cas9 RNA-guided endonuclease. Nat Biotechnol. 2013 Mar;31(3):230-2. DOI:10.1038/nbt.2507 | Coelho PS, Brustad EM, Kannan A, and Arnold FH. Olefin cyclopropanation via carbene transfer catalyzed by engineered cytochrome P450 enzymes. Science. 2013 Jan 18;339(6117):307-10. DOI:10.1126/science.1231434 | Spitale RC, Crisalli P, Flynn RA, Torre EA, Kool ET, and Chang HY. RNA SHAPE analysis in living cells. Nat Chem Biol. 2013 Jan;9(1):18-20. DOI:10.1038/nchembio.1131 | Frieda KL and Block SM. Direct observation of cotranscriptional folding in an adenine riboswitch. Science. 2012 Oct 19;338(6105):397-400. 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