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1De novo design of ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides
Nature Chemistry, 2025, 17, 233-245
15.518Citations (PDF)
2Design and regulation of engineered bacteria for environmental release
Nature Microbiology, 2025, 10, 281-300
9.9117Citations (PDF)
3Design of a Continuous GAA-Producing Probiotic as a Potential Mitigator of the Effects of Sleep Deprivation
ACS Synthetic Biology, 2025, 14, 1963-1976
3.02Citations (PDF)
4Constraint-Based Sub-Graph Partitioning for Multi-Cellular Biological Networks
2025, 22, 1888-1901
0Citations (PDF)
5Synthetic microbe-to-plant communication channels10.853Citations (PDF)
6Establishing a High-Yield Chloroplast Cell-Free System for Prototyping Genetic Parts
ACS Synthetic Biology, 2024, 13, 2402-2411
3.010Citations (PDF)
7Infrared‐Scattering by Programmable Peptide‐Melanin Microparticles11.93Citations (PDF)
8GOLDBAR: A Framework for Combinatorial Biological Design
ACS Synthetic Biology, 2024, 13, 2899-2911
3.05Citations (PDF)
9Partitioning of a 2-bit hash function across 66 communicating cells
Nature Chemical Biology, 2024, 21, 268-279
9.131Citations (PDF)
10Functional Redundancy and Dual Function of a Hypothetical Protein in the Biosynthesis of Eunicellane-Type Diterpenoids
ACS Chemical Biology, 2024, 19, 2314-2322
2.55Citations (PDF)
11Marine Biofilm Engineered to Produce Current in Response to Small Molecules
ACS Synthetic Biology, 2023, 12, 1007-1020
3.06Citations (PDF)
12Design of Four Small-Molecule-Inducible Systems in the Yeast Chromosome, Applied to Optimize Terpene Biosynthesis
ACS Synthetic Biology, 2023, 12, 1119-1132
3.024Citations (PDF)
13Redesign of an Escherichia coli Nissle treatment for phenylketonuria using insulated genomic landing pads and genetic circuits to reduce burden
Cell Systems, 2023, 14, 512-524.e12
3.530Citations (PDF)
14Sentinel cells programmed to respond to environmental DNA including human sequences
Nature Chemical Biology, 2023, 20, 211-220
9.115Citations (PDF)
15Systematic mining of the human microbiome identifies antimicrobial peptides with diverse activity spectra
Nature Microbiology, 2023, 8, 2420-2434
9.968Citations (PDF)
16Design of a redox-proficient Escherichia coli for screening terpenoids and modifying cytochrome P450s
Nature Catalysis, 2023, 6, 1016-1029
32.027Citations (PDF)
17Genetic circuit design automation with Cello 2.0
Nature Protocols, 2022, 17, 1097-1113
10.6144Citations (PDF)
18Characterizing chemical signaling between engineered “microbial sentinels” in porous microplates3.618Citations (PDF)
19Engineered plant control of associative nitrogen fixation5.283Citations (PDF)
20Functional expression of diverse post-translational peptide-modifying enzymes in Escherichia coli under uniform expression and purification conditions
PLoS ONE, 2022, 17, e0266488
1.512Citations (PDF)
21Merging enzymatic and synthetic chemistry with computational synthesis planning10.872Citations (PDF)
22Parallel engineering of environmental bacteria and performance over years under jungle-simulated conditions
PLoS ONE, 2022, 17, e0278471
1.510Citations (PDF)
23Nanoliter scale electrochemistry of natural and engineered electroactive bacteria
Bioelectrochemistry, 2021, 137, 107644
3.518Citations (PDF)
24Genetic Tuning of Iron Oxide Nanoparticle Size, Shape, and Surface Properties in Magnetospirillum magneticum11.926Citations (PDF)
25An absorbance method for analysis of enzymatic degradation kinetics of poly(ethylene terephthalate) films
Scientific Reports, 2021, 11,
2.7128Citations (PDF)
26Single-cell measurement of plasmid copy number and promoter activity10.899Citations (PDF)
27Gut-inhabiting Clostridia build human GPCR ligands by conjugating neurotransmitters with diet- and human-derived fatty acids
Nature Microbiology, 2021, 6, 792-805
9.971Citations (PDF)
28Genetic Control of Aerogel and Nanofoam Properties, Applied to Ni–MnOx Cathode Design11.914Citations (PDF)
29Coculture of primary human colon monolayer with human gut bacteria
Nature Protocols, 2021, 16, 3874-3900
10.670Citations (PDF)
30Rapid and simultaneous screening of pathway designs and chassis organisms, applied to engineered living materials
Metabolic Engineering, 2021, 66, 308-318
5.316Citations (PDF)
31Four-Step Pathway from Phenylpyruvate to Benzylamine, an Intermediate to the High-Energy Propellant CL-20
ACS Synthetic Biology, 2021, 10, 2187-2196
3.06Citations (PDF)
32Genetically modifying skin microbe to produce violacein and augmenting microbiome did not defend Panamanian golden frogs from disease3.827Citations (PDF)
33Competitive dCas9 binding as a mechanism for transcriptional control3.635Citations (PDF)
34Selection for constrained peptides that bind to a single target protein10.827Citations (PDF)
35A synthetic distributed genetic multi-bit counter
IScience, 2021, 24, 103526
2.412Citations (PDF)
36Engineering living and regenerative fungal–bacterial biocomposite structures
Nature Materials, 2021, 21, 471-478
23.7144Citations (PDF)
37Genetic Encoding of Targeted Magnetic Resonance Imaging Contrast Agents for Tumor Imaging
ACS Synthetic Biology, 2020, 9, 392-401
3.027Citations (PDF)
38Hybrid Living Materials: Digital Design and Fabrication of 3D Multimaterial Structures with Programmable Biohybrid Surfaces11.972Citations (PDF)
39Genetic circuit characterization by inferring RNA polymerase movement and ribosome usage10.866Citations (PDF)
40Genetic circuit design automation for yeast
Nature Microbiology, 2020, 5, 1349-1360
9.9147Citations (PDF)
41Genetic Circuit Dynamics: Hazard and Glitch Analysis
ACS Synthetic Biology, 2020, 9, 2324-2338
3.027Citations (PDF)
42Activation of Protein Expression in Electroactive Biofilms
ACS Synthetic Biology, 2020, 9, 1958-1967
3.015Citations (PDF)
43Silica Nanostructures Produced Using Diatom Peptides with Designed Post‐Translational Modifications11.941Citations (PDF)
44Genetic circuit design automation for the gut resident species Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron
Nature Biotechnology, 2020, 38, 962-969
19.7123Citations (PDF)
45Distributed Implementation of Boolean Functions by Transcriptional Synthetic Circuits
ACS Synthetic Biology, 2020, 9, 2172-2187
3.029Citations (PDF)
46Engineering a DNAzyme-Based Operon System for the Production of DNA Nanoscaffolds in Living Bacteria
ACS Synthetic Biology, 2020, 9, 236-240
3.018Citations (PDF)
47P recision design of stable genetic circuits carried in highly‐insulated E. coli genomic landing pads3.674Citations (PDF)
48Communicating Structure and Function in Synthetic Biology Diagrams
ACS Synthetic Biology, 2019, 8, 1818-1825
3.042Citations (PDF)
49Synthetic Biology Open Language Visual (SBOL Visual) Version 2.10.710Citations (PDF)
50Light‐Controlled, High‐Resolution Patterning of Living Engineered Bacteria Onto Textiles, Ceramics, and Plastic11.9113Citations (PDF)
51Retrosynthetic design of metabolic pathways to chemicals not found in nature1.2107Citations (PDF)
52Organism Engineering for the Bioproduction of the Triaminotrinitrobenzene (TATB) Precursor Phloroglucinol (PG)
ACS Synthetic Biology, 2019, 8, 2746-2755
3.022Citations (PDF)
53Biosynthesis of the nitrogenase active-site cofactor precursor NifB-co in Saccharomyces cerevisiae5.253Citations (PDF)
54Bacterial terpene biosynthesis: challenges and opportunities for pathway engineering1.6126Citations (PDF)
55Engineering orthogonal signalling pathways reveals the sparse occupancy of sequence space
Nature, 2019, 574, 702-706
30.780Citations (PDF)
56Control of nitrogen fixation in bacteria that associate with cereals
Nature Microbiology, 2019, 5, 314-330
9.9218Citations (PDF)
57Resilient living materials built by printing bacterial spores
Nature Chemical Biology, 2019, 16, 126-133
9.1232Citations (PDF)
58A Pressure Test to Make 10 Molecules in 90 Days: External Evaluation of Methods to Engineer Biology11.7141Citations (PDF)
59Engineered promoters enable constant gene expression at any copy number in bacteria
Nature Biotechnology, 2018, 36, 352-358
19.7182Citations (PDF)
60Cellular checkpoint control using programmable sequential logic
Science, 2018, 361,
26.1121Citations (PDF)
61Synthetic Biology Open Language Visual (SBOL Visual) Version 2.00.726Citations (PDF)
62Iterative algorithm-guided design of massive strain libraries, applied to itaconic acid production in yeast
Metabolic Engineering, 2018, 48, 33-43
5.370Citations (PDF)
63Engineered integrative and conjugative elements for efficient and inducible DNA transfer to undomesticated bacteria
Nature Microbiology, 2018, 3, 1043-1053
9.9206Citations (PDF)
64Deep learning to predict the lab-of-origin of engineered DNA10.869Citations (PDF)
65Escherichia coli “Marionette” strains with 12 highly optimized small-molecule sensors
Nature Chemical Biology, 2018, 15, 196-204
9.1557Citations (PDF)
66Discovery of Reactive Microbiota-Derived Metabolites that Inhibit Host Proteases
Cell, 2017, 168, 517-526.e18
23.4205Citations (PDF)
67Formation of Nitrogenase NifDK Tetramers in the Mitochondria of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
ACS Synthetic Biology, 2017, 6, 1043-1055
3.083Citations (PDF)
68Control of type III protein secretion using a minimal genetic system10.867Citations (PDF)
69Engineering RGB color vision into Escherichia coli
Nature Chemical Biology, 2017, 13, 706-708
9.1194Citations (PDF)
70Genetic Design via Combinatorial Constraint Specification
ACS Synthetic Biology, 2017, 6, 2130-2135
3.018Citations (PDF)
71Genetic circuit characterization and debugging using RNA ‐seq3.696Citations (PDF)
72DNAplotlib: Programmable Visualization of Genetic Designs and Associated Data
ACS Synthetic Biology, 2017, 6, 1115-1119
3.058Citations (PDF)
73Balancing gene expression without library construction via a reusable sRNA pool
Nucleic Acids Research, 2017, 45, 8116-8127
10.771Citations (PDF)
74Genetic circuit design automation
Science, 2016, 352,
26.11,068Citations (PDF)
75Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation and the Challenges to Its Extension to Nonlegumes2.4593Citations (PDF)
76Double Dutch: A Tool for Designing Combinatorial Libraries of Biological Systems
ACS Synthetic Biology, 2016, 5, 507-517
3.036Citations (PDF)
77Genetic encoding of DNA nanostructures and their self-assembly in living bacteria10.877Citations (PDF)
78Post-translational control of genetic circuits usingPotyvirusproteases
Nucleic Acids Research, 2016, 44, 6493-6502
10.787Citations (PDF)
79Synthetic biology to access and expand nature's chemical diversity
Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2016, 14, 135-149
58.2474Citations (PDF)
80DNA Assembly in 3D Printed Fluidics
PLoS ONE, 2015, 10, e0143636
1.545Citations (PDF)
81Targeted DNA degradation using a CRISPR device stably carried in the host genome10.8174Citations (PDF)
82Memory and Combinatorial Logic Based on DNA Inversions: Dynamics and Evolutionary Stability
ACS Synthetic Biology, 2015, 4, 1361-1372
3.051Citations (PDF)
83Algorithmic co-optimization of genetic constructs and growth conditions: application to 6-ACA, a potential nylon-6 precursor
Nucleic Acids Research, 2015, , gkv1071
10.756Citations (PDF)
84Use of plant colonizing bacteria as chassis for transfer of N2-fixation to cereals4.7110Citations (PDF)
85Programming a Human Commensal Bacterium, Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, to Sense and Respond to Stimuli in the Murine Gut Microbiota
Cell Systems, 2015, 1, 62-71
3.5354Citations (PDF)
86A Framework for Genetic Logic Synthesis
Proceedings of the IEEE, 2015, 103, 2196-2207
8.626Citations (PDF)
87Functional optimization of gene clusters by combinatorial design and assembly
Nature Biotechnology, 2014, 32, 1241-1249
19.7355Citations (PDF)
88Multi‐input CRISPR / C as genetic circuits that interface host regulatory networks3.6259Citations (PDF)
89Realizing the potential of synthetic biology69.0233Citations (PDF)
90Principles of genetic circuit design
Nature Methods, 2014, 11, 508-520
13.1978Citations (PDF)
91Systematic Transfer of Prokaryotic Sensors and Circuits to Mammalian Cells
ACS Synthetic Biology, 2014, 3, 880-891
3.089Citations (PDF)
92A ‘resource allocator’ for transcription based on a highly fragmented T7 RNA polymerase3.6201Citations (PDF)
93Permanent genetic memory with >1-byte capacity
Nature Methods, 2014, 11, 1261-1266
13.1258Citations (PDF)
94Genetic Sensor for Strong Methylating Compounds
ACS Synthetic Biology, 2013, 2, 614-624
3.032Citations (PDF)
95Advances in genetic circuit design: novel biochemistries, deep part mining, and precision gene expression4.6147Citations (PDF)
96Characterization of 582 natural and synthetic terminators and quantification of their design constraints
Nature Methods, 2013, 10, 659-664
13.1527Citations (PDF)
97Design of orthogonal genetic switches based on a crosstalk map of σs, anti‐σs, and promoters3.6183Citations (PDF)
98Genomic mining of prokaryotic repressors for orthogonal logic gates
Nature Chemical Biology, 2013, 10, 99-105
9.1392Citations (PDF)
99Modular control of multiple pathways using engineered orthogonal T7 polymerases
Nucleic Acids Research, 2012, 40, 8773-8781
10.7202Citations (PDF)
100Ribozyme-based insulator parts buffer synthetic circuits from genetic context
Nature Biotechnology, 2012, 30, 1137-1142
19.7426Citations (PDF)
101Genetic Circuit Performance under Conditions Relevant for Industrial Bioreactors
ACS Synthetic Biology, 2012, 1, 555-564
3.0112Citations (PDF)
102Refactoring the nitrogen fixation gene cluster fromKlebsiella oxytoca5.2404Citations (PDF)
103Genetic programs constructed from layered logic gates in single cells
Nature, 2012, 491, 249-253
30.7724Citations (PDF)
104Multichromatic Control of Gene Expression in Escherichia coli
Journal of Molecular Biology, 2011, 405, 315-324
2.9268Citations (PDF)
105Construction of a Genetic Multiplexer to Toggle between Chemosensory Pathways in Escherichia coli
Journal of Molecular Biology, 2011, 406, 215-227
2.965Citations (PDF)
106Synthesis of three advanced biofuels from ionic liquid-pretreated switchgrass using engineered Escherichia coli5.2357Citations (PDF)
107Characterization of combinatorial patterns generated by multiple two‐component sensors in E. coli that respond to many stimuli2.747Citations (PDF)
108Prokaryotic gene clusters: A rich toolbox for synthetic biology
Biotechnology Journal, 2010, 5, 1277-1296
2.475Citations (PDF)
109Programming cells: towards an automated ‘Genetic Compiler’4.780Citations (PDF)
110Quantification of the physiochemical constraints on the export of spider silk proteins by Salmonella type III secretion3.619Citations (PDF)
111Robust multicellular computing using genetically encoded NOR gates and chemical ‘wires’
Nature, 2010, 469, 212-215
30.7862Citations (PDF)
112Engineering the Salmonella type III secretion system to export spider silk monomers3.6152Citations (PDF)
113Spatiotemporal control of cell signalling using a light-switchable protein interaction
Nature, 2009, 461, 997-1001
30.71,012Citations (PDF)
114Automated design of synthetic ribosome binding sites to control protein expression
Nature Biotechnology, 2009, 27, 946-950
19.71,847Citations (PDF)
115A Synthetic Genetic Edge Detection Program
Cell, 2009, 137, 1272-1281
23.4466Citations (PDF)
116Kinetic Buffering of Cross Talk between Bacterial Two-Component Sensors
Journal of Molecular Biology, 2009, 390, 380-393
2.994Citations (PDF)
117Synthesis of Methyl Halides from Biomass Using Engineered Microbes11.7239Citations (PDF)
118Induction and Relaxation Dynamics of the Regulatory Network Controlling the Type III Secretion System Encoded within Salmonella Pathogenicity Island 12.953Citations (PDF)
119Environmental signal integration by a modular AND gate3.6334Citations (PDF)
120Environmentally Controlled Invasion of Cancer Cells by Engineered Bacteria
Journal of Molecular Biology, 2006, 355, 619-627
2.9571Citations (PDF)
121Genetic parts to program bacteria4.7226Citations (PDF)
122Engineering Escherichia coli to see light
Nature, 2005, 438, 441-442
30.7620Citations (PDF)
123The Bacillus subtilis sin Operon
Genetics, 2005, 169, 1187-1202
3.363Citations (PDF)
124Registry in a tube: multiplexed pools of retrievable parts for genetic design space exploration10.739Citations (PDF)
125Registry in a tube: multiplexed pools of retrievable parts for genetic design space exploration10.711Citations (PDF)
126Engineered dCas9 with reduced toxicity in bacteria: implications for genetic circuit design10.7145Citations (PDF)
127Hyperspectral reporters for long-distance and wide-area detection of gene expression in living bacteria
Nature Biotechnology, 0, 44, 258-268
19.726Citations (PDF)
128Synthetic Biology of Plants and Microbes for Agriculture, Environment, and Future Applications
Chemical Reviews, 0, 126, 895-1109
42.517Citations (PDF)
129Protecting cells at the genetic level and simulating unauthorized access via a biohackathon8.11Citations (PDF)
130Consumption of the degradation products of nylon 6 and nylon 6,6 as the sole carbon and nitrogen source by engineered Acinetobacter baylyi
Metabolic Engineering, 0, 97, 102492
5.30Citations (PDF)
131Responsible biotechnology: an analysis of the Asilomar 2025 entreaties6.60Citations (PDF)
132Living circuit boards built by printing bacterial transistors9.10Citations (PDF)