Selected Articles in Synthetic Biology

(also visit ACS Synthetic Biology or Molecular Systems Biology)

Directed evolution of a genetic circuit (PNAS 2002, 99:16587-16591)
RNA-based (Nat Biotech 2004, 22:841-847; RNA 2006, 12(5):710-716)
Two component systems (Cell 2008, 133:947-948; 1043-1054)
Optimization of promoters (Mol Syst Biol 2007, 3:145, doi:10.1038/msb4100187, Epub 13-Nov-07)
AND gate (Mol Syst Biol 2007, 3:133, doi:10.1038/msb4100173, Epub 14-Aug-07)
Phage (PNAS 2006, 103:19045-19050)
Tunable genetic switch (Cell 2007, 130:363-372)

Two dimensional pattern formation (Nature 2005, 434:1130-1134)
Toggle (Nature 2000, 403:339-342; PNAS 2004, 101:8414-8419)
Oscillator (Nature 2000, 403:335-338; Nature 2008, 456:516-519, doi:10.1038/nature07389, Epub 27-Nov-08)
Programmed population control (Nature 2004, 428:868-871)
Predator-prey (Mol Syst Biol 2008, 4:187, doi:10.1038/msb.2008.24, Epub 15-Apr-08)
Microbial biofilm consortium (PNAS 2007, 104(44):17300-17304, doi/10.1073/pnas.0704256104, Epub 30-Oct-07)
Photographic bacteria (Nature 2005, 438:441-442; Cell 2009, 137:1272-1281)
Cancer invasion (J Mol Biol 2006, 355:619-627)
Phage-based antibiotics (PNAS 2009, 106(12):4629-4634)
Chemotaxis (J Am Chem Soc 2007, 129(21):6807-6811, Epub 30-May-07)
Multi-cell chemotaxis (Molecular Systems Biology 5:283; doi:10.1038/msb.2009.41)
Synthetic gene networks that count (Science 2009, 324(#5931):1199-1202)
Bacterial killers (Molecular Systems Biology 7:521; doi:10.1038/msb.2011.55)

Cell-cell communication in yeast (Nat Biotech 2005, 23:1551-1555)
Cell-cell communication in mammals (Mol Biosyst 2009, 5(7):757-763, DOI: 10.1039/b902070p, Epub 28-Apr-09; PNAS 2007, 104(25):10435-10440)
Plug and play parts for yeast (Nat Biotech 2009, 27(5):465-471, doi:10.1038/nbt.1536, Epub May-09)

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