Search Results - "ARKIN, Adam P"
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A quantitative framework reveals ecological drivers of grassland microbial community assembly in response to warming
Published in Nature communications (18-09-2020)“…Unraveling the drivers controlling community assembly is a central issue in ecology. Although it is generally accepted that selection, dispersal,…”
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FastTree 2--approximately maximum-likelihood trees for large alignments
Published in PloS one (10-03-2010)“…We recently described FastTree, a tool for inferring phylogenies for alignments with up to hundreds of thousands of sequences. Here, we describe improvements…”
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Repurposing CRISPR as an RNA-Guided Platform for Sequence-Specific Control of Gene Expression
Published in Cell (28-02-2013)“…Targeted gene regulation on a genome-wide scale is a powerful strategy for interrogating, perturbing, and engineering cellular systems. Here, we develop a…”
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Deciphering microbial interactions in synthetic human gut microbiome communities
Published in Molecular systems biology (01-06-2018)“…The ecological forces that govern the assembly and stability of the human gut microbiota remain unresolved. We developed a generalizable model‐guided framework…”
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Filling gaps in bacterial catabolic pathways with computation and high-throughput genetics
Published in PLoS genetics (13-04-2022)“…To discover novel catabolic enzymes and transporters, we combined high-throughput genetic data from 29 bacteria with an automated tool to find gaps in their…”
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Stochasticity, succession, and environmental perturbations in a fluidic ecosystem
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (04-03-2014)“…Unraveling the drivers of community structure and succession in response to environmental change is a central goal in ecology. Although the mechanisms shaping…”
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Precise and reliable gene expression via standard transcription and translation initiation elements
Published in Nature methods (01-04-2013)“…By using a bicistronic design, with a leader peptide that overlaps with and contains the Shine-Dalgarno site for a downstream gene of interest, the authors…”
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A fast comparative genome browser for diverse bacteria and archaea
Published in PloS one (09-04-2024)“…Genome sequencing has revealed an incredible diversity of bacteria and archaea, but there are no fast and convenient tools for browsing across these genomes…”
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Composability of regulatory sequences controlling transcription and translation in Escherichia coli
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (20-08-2013)“…The inability to predict heterologous gene expression levels precisely hinders our ability to engineer biological systems. Using well-characterized regulatory…”
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Metabolic engineering of the oleaginous yeast Rhodosporidium toruloides IFO0880 for lipid overproduction during high-density fermentation
Published in Applied microbiology and biotechnology (01-11-2016)“…Natural lipids can be used to make biodiesel and many other value-added compounds. In this work, we explored a number of different metabolic engineering…”
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Quantifying the local adaptive landscape of a nascent bacterial community
Published in Nature communications (16-01-2023)“…The fitness effects of all possible mutations available to an organism largely shape the dynamics of evolutionary adaptation. Yet, whether and how this…”
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Engineering Rhodosporidium toruloides for increased lipid production
Published in Biotechnology and bioengineering (01-05-2016)“…ABSTRACT Oleaginous yeast are promising organisms for the production of lipid‐based chemicals and fuels from simple sugars. In this work, we explored…”
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A method for achieving complete microbial genomes and improving bins from metagenomics data
Published in PLoS computational biology (07-05-2021)“…Metagenomics facilitates the study of the genetic information from uncultured microbes and complex microbial communities. Assembling complete genomes from…”
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High-throughput mapping of the phage resistance landscape in E. coli
Published in PLoS biology (13-10-2020)“…Bacteriophages (phages) are critical players in the dynamics and function of microbial communities and drive processes as diverse as global biogeochemical…”
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The essential gene set of a photosynthetic organism
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (01-12-2015)“…Synechococcus elongatusPCC 7942 is a model organism used for studying photosynthesis and the circadian clock, and it is being developed for the production of…”
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Multiplexed RNA structure characterization with selective 2'-hydroxyl acylation analyzed by primer extension sequencing (SHAPE-Seq)
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (05-07-2011)“…New regulatory roles continue to emerge for both natural and engineered noncoding RNAs, many of which have specific secondary and tertiary structures essential…”
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CRISPR-Cas9 Circular Permutants as Programmable Scaffolds for Genome Modification
Published in Cell (10-01-2019)“…The ability to engineer natural proteins is pivotal to a future, pragmatic biology. CRISPR proteins have revolutionized genome modification, yet the…”
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Rapid quantification of mutant fitness in diverse bacteria by sequencing randomly bar-coded transposons
Published in mBio (12-05-2015)“…Transposon mutagenesis with next-generation sequencing (TnSeq) is a powerful approach to annotate gene function in bacteria, but existing protocols for TnSeq…”
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Versatile RNA-sensing transcriptional regulators for engineering genetic networks
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (24-05-2011)“…The widespread natural ability of RNA to sense small molecules and regulate genes has become an important tool for synthetic biology in applications as diverse…”
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Small and mighty: adaptation of superphylum Patescibacteria to groundwater environment drives their genome simplicity
Published in Microbiome (06-04-2020)“…The newly defined superphylum Patescibacteria such as Parcubacteria (OD1) and Microgenomates (OP11) has been found to be prevalent in groundwater, sediment,…”
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