Ajo-Franklin Caroline M, Drubin David A, Eskin Julian A, Gee Elaine P S, Landgraf Dirk, Phillips Ira, Silver Pamela A
Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Genes Dev. 2007 Sep 15;21(18):2271-6. doi: 10.1101/gad.1586107.
The ability to logically engineer novel cellular functions promises a deeper understanding of biological systems. Here we demonstrate the rational design of cellular memory in yeast that employs autoregulatory transcriptional positive feedback. We built a set of transcriptional activators and quantitatively characterized their effects on gene expression in living cells. Modeling in conjunction with the quantitative characterization of the activator-promoter pairs accurately predicts the behavior of the memory network. This study demonstrates the power of taking advantage of components with measured quantitative parameters to specify eukaryotic regulatory networks with desired properties.
从逻辑上设计新型细胞功能的能力有望让我们更深入地理解生物系统。在此,我们展示了在酵母中对细胞记忆的合理设计,该设计采用了自动调节转录正反馈。我们构建了一组转录激活因子,并定量表征了它们对活细胞中基因表达的影响。结合激活因子 - 启动子对的定量表征进行建模,能够准确预测记忆网络的行为。这项研究证明了利用具有测量定量参数的组件来指定具有所需特性的真核调节网络的强大力量。