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ArticleNature chemistry2019

Building in vitro transcriptional regulatory networks by successively integrating multiple functional circuit modules.

Samuel W Schaffter, Rebecca Schulman

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Article in Nature chemistry, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers.

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52 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. Dynamic Transcription Machineries in Protocells.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Samuel W SchaffterDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. sschaff6@jhu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7259-7374
Rebecca SchulmanDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. rschulm3@jhu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4555-3162

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The regulation of cellular dynamics and responses to stimuli by genetic regulatory networks suggests how in vitro chemical reaction networks might analogously direct the dynamics of synthetic materials or chemistries. A key step in developing genetic regulatory network analogues capable of this type of sophisticated regulation is the integration of multiple coordinated functions within a single network. Here, we demonstrate how such functional integration can be achieved using in vitro transcriptional genelet circuits that emulate essential features of cellular genetic regulatory networks. By successively incorporating functional genelet modules into a bistable circuit, we construct an integrated regulatory network that dynamically changes its state in response to upstream stimuli and coordinates the timing of downstream signal expression. We use quantitative models to guide module integration and develop strategies to mitigate undesired interactions between network components that arise as the size of the network increases. This approach could enable the construction of in vitro networks capable of multifaceted chemical and material regulation.

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Gene Regulatory NetworksGene Expression RegulationRNASignal TransductionRNA

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