Recent Advances in RNA Synthetic Biology
A special issue of Biomolecules (ISSN 2218-273X). This special issue belongs to the section "Synthetic Biology and Bioengineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 June 2023) | Viewed by 7898
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microbiology; small non-coding RNAs; RNases; gene expression; Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs); Pseudomonas putida; Sinorhizobium meliloti
Interests: genetic code expansion; RNA biology; protein acetylation; protein phosphorylation; bacterial microcompartment; metabolism
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Synthetic biology is a multidisciplinary field of science that designs and reconstructs biological systems with the aim of giving them new abilities. RNA molecules play fundamental and diverse roles in cells, which rely on their interaction with other nucleic acids, proteins, and cell molecules. Regulatory RNAs, such as non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs), are being extensively studied, and their use is emerging in synthetic biology to program cellular behavior through the use of genetic and metabolic engineering. Diverse sets of regulatory RNA molecules can be employed to confer a specific activity (e.g., RNA-RNA binding, ligand-RNA binding, ribozyme activity) to the engineered RNA-based systems. The rapid increase in computational design and biotechnology tools permits the application of these versatile engineered RNA systems to expand our understanding of biomolecular networks. Further, the expanding catalog of designer RNAs opens the opportunity for novel applications to a wide range of organisms in biomedicine, therapeutics, or the development of microbial fuel cells, among others.
This Special Issue on “Recent Advances in RNA Synthetic Biology” will highlight original research papers, reviews, and articles that integrate the expertise from different areas related to the control of gene expression, genome engineering, and transcriptional and post-transcriptional fine-tuning of metabolic cellular pathways.
Dr. Alexandra Peregrina
Dr. Chenguang Fan
Dr. Simon Schäper
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- RNA molecules
- synthetic biology
- metabolic engineering
- control of gene expression
- cell control
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