Type I CRISPR inhibitors from phage: phage-borne anti-CRISPR genes that encode protein inhibitors of the type I-F CRISPR-Cas system of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
A platform of genetic codes comprising fewer than 20 amino acids was created by removing specific amino acids from E. coli S30 cell-free reaction mixture to eliminate the targeted endogenous translation pathways connecting the specific amino acids and the codons. The tRNA variant with the altered anticodon loop was then added, to reassign Ala or Ser to the unassigned codons.
Simple cells (SimCells) whose native chromosomes were removed by digestion of heterologous nuclease and replaced by synthetic genetic circuits of interest.
A version control system for cell engineering that integrates a new cloud-based version control software for cell lines’ digital footprint tracking and molecular barcoding of living samples.
Adding unique DNA sequence as barcode for new genetic modification done in microbes
The number of codons used to encode the canonical amino acids have been reduced, through the genome-wide substitution of target codons by defined synonyms. A variant of E. coli genome (strain Syn61) has been created with size of 4 Mb synthetic genome (based on strain MSD42) through a high-fidelity convergent total synthesis.
The codons encoded PV1 protein of poliovirus have been recoded using deoptimized codon pair, leading to 631 mutations, resulting in “death by a thousand cut” attenuation.
Constructing viral genome variants containing synthetic replacements of the capsid coding sequences either by deoptimizing synonymous codon usage (PV-AB) or by maximizing synonymous codon position changes of the existing wild-type poliovirus codons.
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