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ArticleNature chemical biology2022

Using fungible biosensors to evolve improved alkaloid biosyntheses.

Simon d'Oelsnitz, Wantae Kim, Nathaniel T Burkholder, Kamyab Javanmardi, Ross Thyer, Yan Zhang, Hal S Alper, Andrew D Ellington

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Article in Nature chemical biology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers.

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43citing papers in PubMed
14.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

43 citing papers in PubMed, 85 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Simon d'OelsnitzDepartment of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA. simonsnitz@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7512-9157
Wantae KimMcKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
Nathaniel T BurkholderDepartment of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
Kamyab JavanmardiDepartment of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
Ross ThyerDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA.
Yan ZhangDepartment of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9360-5388
Hal S AlperMcKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8246-8605
Andrew D EllingtonDepartment of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA. ellingtonlab@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6246-5338
The University of Texas at Austin · USRice University · US

Funding

Gene-specific transcriptional silencing directed by dephosphorylation of RNAP IIR01GM104896 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI ZHANG, YAN JESSIE · 2013 to 2022
$2.4M
Interpretation of the phosphorylation code of RNA polymerase II during eukaryotic transcriptionR01GM125882 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI BRODBELT, JENNIFER S., ZHANG, YAN JESSIE · 2018 to 2021
$1.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM104896NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM125882
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A key bottleneck in the microbial production of therapeutic plant metabolites is identifying enzymes that can improve yield. The facile identification of genetically encoded biosensors can overcome this limitation and become part of a general method for engineering scaled production. We have developed a combined screening and selection approach that quickly refines the affinities and specificities of generalist transcription factors; using RamR as a starting point, we evolve highly specific (>100-fold preference) and sensitive (half-maximum effective concentration (EC

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AlkaloidsBiosensing TechniquesPlantsAlkaloids

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PMID35799063
PMCPMC11494455
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