Deniz Durmusoglu, Daniel J. Haller, Ibrahim S. Al’Abri, Katie Day, Carmen Sands, Andrew Clark, Adriana San-Miguel, Ruben Vazquez-Uribe, Morten O. A. Sommer and Nathan C. Crook*,
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Abstract
Saccharomyces boulardii (Sb) is an emerging probiotic chassis for delivering biomolecules to the mammalian gut, offering unique advantages as the only eukaryotic probiotic. However, precise control over gene expression and gut residence time in Sb have remained challenging. To address this, we developed five ligand-responsive gene expression systems and repaired galactose metabolism in Sb, enabling inducible gene expression in this strain. Engineering these systems allowed us to construct AND logic gates, control the surface display of proteins, and turn on protein production in the mouse gut in response to dietary sugar. Additionally, repairing galactose metabolism expanded Sb’s habitat within the intestines and resulted in galactose-responsive control over gut residence time. This work opens new avenues for precise dosing of therapeutics by Sb via control over its in vivo gene expression levels and localization within the gastrointestinal tract.
期刊介绍:
The journal is particularly interested in studies on the design and synthesis of new genetic circuits and gene products; computational methods in the design of systems; and integrative applied approaches to understanding disease and metabolism.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Design and optimization of genetic systems
Genetic circuit design and their principles for their organization into programs
Computational methods to aid the design of genetic systems
Experimental methods to quantify genetic parts, circuits, and metabolic fluxes
Genetic parts libraries: their creation, analysis, and ontological representation
Protein engineering including computational design
Metabolic engineering and cellular manufacturing, including biomass conversion
Natural product access, engineering, and production
Creative and innovative applications of cellular programming
Medical applications, tissue engineering, and the programming of therapeutic cells
Minimal cell design and construction
Genomics and genome replacement strategies
Viral engineering
Automated and robotic assembly platforms for synthetic biology
DNA synthesis methodologies
Metagenomics and synthetic metagenomic analysis
Bioinformatics applied to gene discovery, chemoinformatics, and pathway construction
Gene optimization
Methods for genome-scale measurements of transcription and metabolomics
Systems biology and methods to integrate multiple data sources
in vitro and cell-free synthetic biology and molecular programming
Nucleic acid engineering.