A drawing showing the main cell cycle genes found to be expressed and Biology Diagrams The Genetic Circuit Is Supported by TF Binding Profiles. The targets our model predicted for most TFs are strongly supported by chromatin cell-cycle phase) rather than discrete types, we performed PCA on WT K562 cells, scored the cells from the Perturb-seq experiment against those PC scores, and introduced the state PC scores as covariates.
Taking advantage of genetic engineering, synthetic biology allows control and design of new cell functions. Recent advances in the development of genetic tools and the assembly of progressively
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An emerging and critical feature of designing circuits for these applications is their genetic stability. 41 Introducing gene circuits into host cells can impose a fitness cost by creating a metabolic or resource burden or from expression of a toxic protein product. 42, 43, 44 Cells harboring mutations that abrogate circuit function can Directed evolution leverages Darwinian principles, creating artificial genetic diversity and selection pressure to enhance synthetic gene circuit function for therapeutic and industrial applications. 23 The process to create variant libraries of key DNA regions can be accelerated by repeated rounds of focused, small-scale genetic diversification 25 via in vitro point mutagenesis or by in vivo
To this end, the development of in vitro cell-free methods to debug circuits will be valuable for designing circuits that are robust to these changes 211,212,213,214,215,216,217,218,219,220. Creating a multi-cell-cycle deferral time with continuous (nonpulsatile) genetic circuits is challenging in proliferating cells, as dilution of cellular components during cell growth forces most protein concentrations to relax to their steady-state values over a time scale of about one cell cycle or faster.
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Genetic circuits control diverse biological behaviors. For very unstable proteins, whose half-life is much smaller than the cell cycle period, dilution may be negligible. In bacteria, mRNA half-lives (1-10 min, typically) are much shorter than protein half-lives. In eukaryotic cells this is not necessarily true (mRNA half-lives can be many
