Biology & Life Sciences

Synthetic Biology: Protein Engineering

Published January 30, 2017 Curated Collections

Synthetic Biology is an emerging, trans-disciplinary field at the intersection between many engineering and scientific disciplines such as biology, chemical engineering, chemistry, electrical engineering, and computer science. This section of the Synthetic Biology Collection details papers related to protein engineering.

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10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004775

PLOS Computational Biology Evolutionary Conserved Positions Define Protein Conformational Diversity
March 23, 2016 Tadeo E. Saldaño, Alexander M. Monzon, Gustavo Parisi, Sebastian Fernandez-Alberti
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1005354

PLOS Pathogens Synthetic prions with novel strain-specified properties
December 31, 2015 Fabio Moda, Thanh-Nhat T. Le, Suzana Aulić, Edoardo Bistaffa, Ilaria Campagnani, Tommaso Virgilio, Antonio Indaco, Luisa Palamara, Olivier Andréoletti, Fabrizio Tagliavini, Giuseppe Legname
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1000736

PLOS Pathogens Protease-Sensitive Synthetic Prions
January 22, 2010 David W. Colby, Rachel Wain, Ilia V. Baskakov, Giuseppe Legname, Christina G. Palmer, Hoang-Oanh B. Nguyen, Azucena Lemus, Fred E. Cohen, Stephen J. DeArmond, Stanley B. Prusiner
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PLOS ONE Three Dimensional Collagen Scaffold Promotes Intrinsic Vascularisation for Tissue Engineering Applications
February 22, 2016 Elsa C. Chan, Shyh-Ming Kuo, Anne M. Kong, Wayne A. Morrison, Gregory J. Dusting, Geraldine M. Mitchell, Shiang Y. Lim, Guei-Sheung Liu
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10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002335

PLOS Computational Biology Protein Design Using Continuous Rotamers
January 12, 2012 Pablo Gainza, Kyle Roberts, Bruce Donald
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10.1371/journal.pone.0026222

PLOS ONE OmniChange: The Sequence Independent Method for Simultaneous Site-Saturation of Five Codons
October 19, 2011 Alexander Dennig, Amol Shivange, Jan Marienhagen, Ulrich Schwaneberg
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10.1371/journal.pone.0016292

PLOS ONE Programmable Ligand Detection System in Plants through a Synthetic Signal Transduction Pathway
January 25, 2011 Mauricio Antunes, Kevin Morey, J. Jeff Smith, Kirk Albrecht, Tessa Bowen, Jeffrey Zdunek, Jared Troupe, Matthew Cuneo, Colleen Webb, Homme Hellinga, June Medford
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10.1371/journal.pone.0015364

PLOS ONE De Novo Designed Proteins from a Library of Artificial Sequences Function in Escherichia Coli and Enable Cell Growth
January 4, 2011 Michael Fisher, Kara McKinley, Luke Bradley, Sara Viola, Michael Hecht
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10.1371/journal.pone.0013960

PLOS ONE Characterization of Engineered Actin Binding Proteins That Control Filament Assembly and Structure
November 12, 2010 Crista M. Brawley, Serdar Uysal, Anthony A. Kossiakoff, Ronald S. Rock
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10.1371/journal.pone.0007569

PLOS ONE Gemini, a Bifunctional Enzymatic and Fluorescent Reporter of Gene Expression
November 4, 2009 Lance Martin, Austin Che, Drew Endy
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10.1371/journal.pone.0007385

PLOS ONE A Man-Made ATP-Binding Protein Evolved Independent of Nature Causes Abnormal Growth in Bacterial Cells
October 8, 2009 Joshua M. Stomel, James W. Wilson, Megan A. León, Phillip Stafford, John C. Chaput
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10.1371/journal.pone.0001680

PLOS ONE Synthetic Biology of Proteins: Tuning GFPs Folding and Stability with Fluoroproline
February 27, 2008 Thomas Steiner, Petra Hess, Jae Hyun Bae, Birgit Wiltschi, Luis Moroder, Nediljko Budisa
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10.1371/journal.pone.0000119

PLOS ONE Designer Self-Assembling Peptide Nanofiber Scaffolds for Adult Mouse Neural Stem Cell 3-Dimensional Cultures
December 27, 2006 Fabrizio Gelain, Daniele Bottai, Angleo Vescovi, Shuguang Zhang

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