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General Reviews on Synthetic Biology

  1. Voigt CA. Genetic parts to program bacteria. Curr Opin Biotechnol. 2006 Oct;17(5):548-57. DOI:10.1016/j.copbio.2006.09.001 | PubMed ID:16978856 | HubMed [1]
  2. Endy D. Foundations for engineering biology. Nature. 2005 Nov 24;438(7067):449-53. DOI:10.1038/nature04342 | PubMed ID:16306983 | HubMed [2]
  3. Andrianantoandro E, Basu S, Karig DK, and Weiss R. Synthetic biology: new engineering rules for an emerging discipline. Mol Syst Biol. 2006;2:2006.0028. DOI:10.1038/msb4100073 | PubMed ID:16738572 | HubMed [3]
  4. Hasty J, McMillen D, and Collins JJ. Engineered gene circuits. Nature. 2002 Nov 14;420(6912):224-30. DOI:10.1038/nature01257 | PubMed ID:12432407 | HubMed [4]
  5. Drubin DA, Way JC, and Silver PA. Designing biological systems. Genes Dev. 2007 Feb 1;21(3):242-54. DOI:10.1101/gad.1507207 | PubMed ID:17289915 | HubMed [5]
  6. Yeh BJ and Lim WA. Synthetic biology: lessons from the history of synthetic organic chemistry. Nat Chem Biol. 2007 Sep;3(9):521-5. DOI:10.1038/nchembio0907-521 | PubMed ID:17710092 | HubMed [6]
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Seminal Papers

  1. Elowitz MB and Leibler S. A synthetic oscillatory network of transcriptional regulators. Nature. 2000 Jan 20;403(6767):335-8. DOI:10.1038/35002125 | PubMed ID:10659856 | HubMed [1]
  2. Gardner TS, Cantor CR, and Collins JJ. Construction of a genetic toggle switch in Escherichia coli. Nature. 2000 Jan 20;403(6767):339-42. DOI:10.1038/35002131 | PubMed ID:10659857 | HubMed [2]
All Medline abstracts: PubMed | HubMed

Cool/Inspiring Synthetic Biology Projects

  1. Chan LY, Kosuri S, and Endy D. Refactoring bacteriophage T7. Mol Syst Biol. 2005;1:2005.0018. DOI:10.1038/msb4100025 | PubMed ID:16729053 | HubMed [1]
  2. Anderson JC, Voigt CA, and Arkin AP. Environmental signal integration by a modular AND gate. Mol Syst Biol. 2007;3:133. DOI:10.1038/msb4100173 | PubMed ID:17700541 | HubMed [2]
  3. Deans TL, Cantor CR, and Collins JJ. A tunable genetic switch based on RNAi and repressor proteins for regulating gene expression in mammalian cells. Cell. 2007 Jul 27;130(2):363-72. DOI:10.1016/j.cell.2007.05.045 | PubMed ID:17662949 | HubMed [3]
  4. Anderson JC, Clarke EJ, Arkin AP, and Voigt CA. Environmentally controlled invasion of cancer cells by engineered bacteria. J Mol Biol. 2006 Jan 27;355(4):619-27. DOI:10.1016/j.jmb.2005.10.076 | PubMed ID:16330045 | HubMed [4]
  5. Lu TK and Collins JJ. Dispersing biofilms with engineered enzymatic bacteriophage. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Jul 3;104(27):11197-202. DOI:10.1073/pnas.0704624104 | PubMed ID:17592147 | HubMed [5]
  6. Murphy KF, Balázsi G, and Collins JJ. Combinatorial promoter design for engineering noisy gene expression. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Jul 31;104(31):12726-31. DOI:10.1073/pnas.0608451104 | PubMed ID:17652177 | HubMed [6]
  7. Basu S, Gerchman Y, Collins CH, Arnold FH, and Weiss R. A synthetic multicellular system for programmed pattern formation. Nature. 2005 Apr 28;434(7037):1130-4. DOI:10.1038/nature03461 | PubMed ID:15858574 | HubMed [7]
  8. You L, Cox RS 3rd, Weiss R, and Arnold FH. Programmed population control by cell-cell communication and regulated killing. Nature. 2004 Apr 22;428(6985):868-71. DOI:10.1038/nature02491 | PubMed ID:15064770 | HubMed [8]
  9. Yokobayashi Y, Weiss R, and Arnold FH. Directed evolution of a genetic circuit. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 Dec 24;99(26):16587-91. DOI:10.1073/pnas.252535999 | PubMed ID:12451174 | HubMed [9]
  10. Basu S, Mehreja R, Thiberge S, Chen MT, and Weiss R. Spatiotemporal control of gene expression with pulse-generating networks. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Apr 27;101(17):6355-60. DOI:10.1073/pnas.0307571101 | PubMed ID:15096621 | HubMed [10]
  11. Hawkins AC, Arnold FH, Stuermer R, Hauer B, and Leadbetter JR. Directed evolution of Vibrio fischeri LuxR for improved response to butanoyl-homoserine lactone. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2007 Sep;73(18):5775-81. DOI:10.1128/AEM.00060-07 | PubMed ID:17675429 | HubMed [11]
  12. Balagaddé FK, You L, Hansen CL, Arnold FH, and Quake SR. Long-term monitoring of bacteria undergoing programmed population control in a microchemostat. Science. 2005 Jul 1;309(5731):137-40. DOI:10.1126/science.1109173 | PubMed ID:15994559 | HubMed [12]
  13. Fung E, Wong WW, Suen JK, Bulter T, Lee SG, and Liao JC. A synthetic gene-metabolic oscillator. Nature. 2005 May 5;435(7038):118-22. DOI:10.1038/nature03508 | PubMed ID:15875027 | HubMed [13]
  14. Murphy KF, Balázsi G, and Collins JJ. Combinatorial promoter design for engineering noisy gene expression. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Jul 31;104(31):12726-31. DOI:10.1073/pnas.0608451104 | PubMed ID:17652177 | HubMed [14]
All Medline abstracts: PubMed | HubMed


Expression Chassis Related

  1. Luisi PL. Toward the engineering of minimal living cells. Anat Rec. 2002 Nov 1;268(3):208-14. DOI:10.1002/ar.10155 | PubMed ID:12382319 | HubMed [1]
  2. Murtas G, Kuruma Y, Bianchini P, Diaspro A, and Luisi PL. Protein synthesis in liposomes with a minimal set of enzymes. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2007 Nov 9;363(1):12-7. DOI:10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.07.201 | PubMed ID:17850764 | HubMed [2]
  3. Forster AC and Church GM. Towards synthesis of a minimal cell. Mol Syst Biol. 2006;2:45. DOI:10.1038/msb4100090 | PubMed ID:16924266 | HubMed [3]
  4. Murtas G. Question 7: construction of a semi-synthetic minimal cell: a model for early living cells. Orig Life Evol Biosph. 2007 Oct;37(4-5):419-22. DOI:10.1007/s11084-007-9090-5 | PubMed ID:17668286 | HubMed [4]
  5. Noireaux V, Bar-Ziv R, Godefroy J, Salman H, and Libchaber A. Toward an artificial cell based on gene expression in vesicles. Phys Biol. 2005 Sep 15;2(3):P1-8. DOI:10.1088/1478-3975/2/3/P01 | PubMed ID:16224117 | HubMed [5]
  6. Noireaux V and Libchaber A. A vesicle bioreactor as a step toward an artificial cell assembly. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Dec 21;101(51):17669-74. DOI:10.1073/pnas.0408236101 | PubMed ID:15591347 | HubMed [6]
  7. Ishikawa K, Sato K, Shima Y, Urabe I, and Yomo T. Expression of a cascading genetic network within liposomes. FEBS Lett. 2004 Oct 22;576(3):387-90. DOI:10.1016/j.febslet.2004.09.046 | PubMed ID:15498568 | HubMed [7]
  8. Rackham O and Chin JW. Cellular logic with orthogonal ribosomes. J Am Chem Soc. 2005 Dec 21;127(50):17584-5. DOI:10.1021/ja055338d | PubMed ID:16351070 | HubMed [8]
  9. Rackham O and Chin JW. A network of orthogonal ribosome x mRNA pairs. Nat Chem Biol. 2005 Aug;1(3):159-66. DOI:10.1038/nchembio719 | PubMed ID:16408021 | HubMed [9]
All Medline abstracts: PubMed | HubMed


DNA Assembly Related

  1. Idempotent Vector Design for Standard Assembly of Biobricks, Knight T. et al (2003)
  2. A New Biobrick Assembly Strategy Designed for Facile Protein Engineering, Phillips, Silver (2006)


Synthetic Biology: Ethics and Impact on Society

  1. Check E. Synthetic biologists face up to security issues. Nature. 2005 Aug 18;436(7053):894-5. DOI:10.1038/436894a | PubMed ID:16107798 | HubMed [1]
  2. Check E. Synthetic biologists try to calm fears. Nature. 2006 May 25;441(7092):388-9. DOI:10.1038/441388a | PubMed ID:16724023 | HubMed [2]
  3. Rai A and Boyle J. Synthetic biology: caught between property rights, the public domain, and the commons. PLoS Biol. 2007 Mar;5(3):e58. DOI:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050058 | PubMed ID:17355173 | HubMed [3]
  4. Henkel J and Maurer SM. The economics of synthetic biology. Mol Syst Biol. 2007;3:117. DOI:10.1038/msb4100161 | PubMed ID:17551512 | HubMed [4]
  5. Bügl H, Danner JP, Molinari RJ, Mulligan JT, Park HO, Reichert B, Roth DA, Wagner R, Budowle B, Scripp RM, Smith JA, Steele SJ, Church G, and Endy D. DNA synthesis and biological security. Nat Biotechnol. 2007 Jun;25(6):627-9. DOI:10.1038/nbt0607-627 | PubMed ID:17557094 | HubMed [5]
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