ArticleScience advances2025
Multiplexing light-inducible recombinases to control cell fate, Boolean logic, and cell patterning in mammalian cells.
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- Modular Scalable Synthetic Gene Circuits for Complex Functions Within Minimal Computational Layers in Human Cells.Nature communications · 2026Article
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- A Single-Chain Light-Activatable Transcriptional Reporter for Fluorescently Tagging Mammalian Cells In Vitro.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2026Article
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- Low-Cost Open Platform Digital Light Printer (OP-DLP) for 96-Well Format Hydrogel Printing and Localized Light-Activation.ACS biomaterials science & engineering · 2026Article
- Leveraging Autonomous Biological Oscillators for Directed Evolution of Switchable Proteins.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026Review
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Abstract
Light-inducible regulatory proteins are powerful tools to interrogate fundamental mechanisms driving cellular behavior. In particular, genetically encoded photosensory domains fused to split proteins can tightly modulate protein activity and gene expression. While light-inducible split protein systems have performed well individually, few multichromatic and orthogonal gene regulation systems exist in mammalian cells. The design space for multichromatic circuits is limited by the small number of orthogonally addressable optogenetic switches and the types of effectors that can be actuated by them. We developed a library of red light-inducible recombinases and directed patterned myogenesis in a mesenchymal fibroblast-like cell line. To address the limited number of light-inducible domains (LIDs) responding to unique excitation spectra, we multiplexed light-inducible recombinases with our "Boolean logic and arithmetic through DNA excision" (BLADE) platform. Multiplexed optogenetic tools will be transformative for understanding the role of multiple interacting genes and their spatial context in endogenous signaling networks.
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