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SCIENCE
Volume 340, Issue 6132, Pages 599-603Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1232758
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- NSF Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center
- Stanford Center for Longevity
- Stanford Bio-X
- Townshend/Lamarre Family Foundation
- Siebel Foundation
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Organisms must process information encoded via developmental and environmental signals to survive and reproduce. Researchers have also engineered synthetic genetic logic to realize simpler, independent control of biological processes. We developed a three-terminal device architecture, termed the transcriptor, that uses bacteriophage serine integrases to control the flow of RNA polymerase along DNA. Integrase-mediated inversion or deletion of DNA encoding transcription terminators or a promoter modulates transcription rates. We realized permanent amplifying AND, NAND, OR, XOR, NOR, and XNOR gates actuated across common control signal ranges and sequential logic supporting autonomous cell-cell communication of DNA encoding distinct logic-gate states. The single-layer digital logic architecture developed here enables engineering of amplifying logic gates to control transcription rates within and across diverse organisms.
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