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ArticleSynthetic biology (Oxford, England)2018

A set of experimentally validated, mutually orthogonal primers for combinatorially specifying genetic components.

Subu K Subramanian, William P Russ, Rama Ranganathan

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Article in Synthetic biology (Oxford, England), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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Subu K SubramanianGreen Center for Systems Biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
William P RussGreen Center for Systems Biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
Rama RanganathanGreen Center for Systems Biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.

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Seeing Protein Mechanics: The Link Between Molecular Structure, Function, and EvolutionR01GM123456 · NIGMS · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI RANGANATHAN, RAMA · 2016 to 2020
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NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM123456
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The design and synthesis of novel genes and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequences is a central technique in synthetic biology. Current methods of high throughput gene synthesis use pooled oligonucleotides obtained from custom-designed DNA microarray chips, and rely on orthogonal (non-interacting) polymerase chain reaction primers to specifically de-multiplex, by amplification, the precise subset of oligonucleotides necessary to assemble a full length gene. The availability of a large validated set of mutually orthogonal primers is therefore a crucial reagent for high-throughput gene synthesis. Here, we present a set of 166 20-nucleotide primers that are experimentally verified to be non-interacting, capable of specifying 13 695 unique genes. These primers represent a valuable resource to the synthetic biology community for specifying genetic components that can be assembled through a scalable and modular architecture.

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DNA assemblygenetic circuitmodular genetic engineeringorthogonal primers

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PMID32995509
PMCPMC7445780

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