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ArticleACS synthetic biology2020

Automated Continuous Evolution of Proteins

Ziwei Zhong, Brandon G Wong, Arjun Ravikumar, Garri A Arzumanyan, Ahmad S Khalil, Chang C Liu

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Article in ACS synthetic biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Biological Systems as Physical Data Processors: Evolution as a Case of Embodied Computing.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2026
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  3. The power of many: when genetics met yeasts and high-throughput.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026
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  4. OpenEvo: An Open-Source Platform for Automated Evolution and Analysis.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  10. Protein engineering: status report.Protein engineering, design & selection : PEDS · 2026
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  15. Bioengineering hybrid artificial life.Frontiers in bioinformatics · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Ziwei ZhongDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, United States.
Brandon G WongBiological Design Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States.
Arjun RavikumarDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, United States.
Garri A ArzumanyanDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, United States.
Ahmad S KhalilBiological Design Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8214-0546
Chang C LiuDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-3290-2880

Funding

MEDICAL SCIENTIST TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM008620 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI GOLDIN, ALAN L · 1999 to 2023
$8.1M
ePACE: automation platforms for adaptable and scalable continuous evolution of biomolecules with therapeutic potentialR01EB027793 · NIBIB · BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. · PI Ahmad Samir Khalil, DAVID R LIU · 2019 to 2026
$6.1M
Diversity Supplement for A High-Throughput Continuous Evolution System for in vivo Biosensor EngineeringDP2GM119163 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI LIU, CHANG C · 2015 to 2017
$2.5M
Combatting antibiotic resistance with synthetic biology technologiesDP2AI131083 · NIAID · BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) · PI KHALIL, AHMAD SAMIR · 2016 to 2016
$2.5M
NIAID NIH HHS DP2 AI131083NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB027793NIGMS NIH HHS DP2 GM119163NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008620
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present automated continuous evolution (ACE), a platform for the hands-free directed evolution of biomolecules. ACE pairs OrthoRep, a genetic system for continuous targeted mutagenesis of user-selected genes

Indexed as

AlgorithmsBacterial ProteinsDirected Molecular EvolutionMutagenesisPlasmodium falciparumProtozoan ProteinsSaccharomyces cerevisiaeTetrahydrofolate DehydrogenaseThermotoga maritimaBacterial ProteinsProtozoan ProteinsTetrahydrofolate Dehydrogenasecontinuous culturecontinuous evolutioneVOLVERorthogonal replicationOrthoRep

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PMID32374988
PMCPMC7370864

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