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ArticleScience advances2024

A DNA circuit that records molecular events.

Mingzhi Zhang, Colin Yancey, Chao Zhang, Junyan Wang, Qian Ma, Linlin Yang, Rebecca Schulman, Da Han, Weihong Tan

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Article in Science advances, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors.

Mingzhi ZhangInstitute of Molecular Medicine (IMM), Shanghai Key Laboratory for Nucleic Acid Chemistry and Nanomedicine, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200127, China.ORCID 0009-0003-6948-9596
Colin YanceyChemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8633-4869
Chao ZhangInstitute of Molecular Medicine (IMM), Shanghai Key Laboratory for Nucleic Acid Chemistry and Nanomedicine, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200127, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0399-1201
Junyan WangZhejiang Cancer Hospital, Hangzhou Institute of Medicine (HIM), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310022, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4961-6853
Qian MaIntellinosis Biotech Co. Ltd., Shanghai, 201112, China.ORCID 0000-0002-4772-7122
Linlin YangInstitute of Molecular Medicine (IMM), Shanghai Key Laboratory for Nucleic Acid Chemistry and Nanomedicine, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200127, China.
Rebecca SchulmanChemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4555-3162
Da HanInstitute of Molecular Medicine (IMM), Shanghai Key Laboratory for Nucleic Acid Chemistry and Nanomedicine, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200127, China.ORCID 0000-0002-0804-2964
Weihong TanInstitute of Molecular Medicine (IMM), Shanghai Key Laboratory for Nucleic Acid Chemistry and Nanomedicine, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200127, China.ORCID 0000-0002-8066-1524

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Characterizing the relative onset time, strength, and duration of molecular signals is critical for understanding the operation of signal transduction and genetic regulatory networks. However, detecting multiple such molecules as they are produced and then quickly consumed is challenging. A MER can encode information about transient molecular events as stable DNA sequences and are amenable to downstream sequencing or other analysis. Here, we report the development of a de novo molecular event recorder that processes information using a strand displacement reaction network and encodes the information using the primer exchange reaction, which can be decoded and quantified by DNA sequencing. The event recorder was able to classify the order at which different molecular signals appeared in time with 88% accuracy, the concentrations with 100% accuracy, and the duration with 75% accuracy. This simultaneous and highly programmable multiparameter recording could enable the large-scale deciphering of molecular events such as within dynamic reaction environments, living cells, or tissues.

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Gene Regulatory NetworksRecombination, GeneticDNADNA

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PMID38578999
PMCPMC10997190

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