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Bandi CK, Skalenko KS, Agrawal A, Sivaneri N, Thiry M, Chundawat SPS. Engineered Regulon to Enable Autonomous Azide Ion Biosensing, Recombinant Protein Production, and in Vivo Glycoengineering. ACS Synth Biol 2021; 10:682-689. [PMID: 33749248 DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.0c00449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Detection of azide-tagged biomolecules (e.g., azido sugars) inside living cells using "click" chemistry has been revolutionary to the field of chemical biology. However, we currently still lack suitable synthetic biology tools to autonomously and rapidly detect azide ions. Here, we have developed an engineered synthetic promoter system called cyn regulon, and complementary Escherichia coli engineered strains, to selectively detect azide ions and autonomously induce downstream expression of reporter genes. The engineered cyn azide operon allowed highly tunable reporter green fluorescent protein (GFP) expression over three orders of inducer azide ion concentrations (0.01-5 mM) and rapidly induced GFP expression by over 600-fold compared to the uninduced control. Next, we showcase the superior performance of this engineered cyn-operon over the classical lac-operon for recombinant protein production. Finally, we highlight how this synthetic biology toolkit can enable glycoengineering-based applications by facilitating in vivo activity screening of mutant carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes), called glycosynthases, using azido sugars as donor substrates.
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- Chandra Kanth Bandi
- Department of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 98 Brett Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, United States
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- Department of Genetics and Waksman Institute, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 190 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, United States
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- Department of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 98 Brett Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, United States
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- Department of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 98 Brett Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, United States
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- Department of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 98 Brett Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, United States
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- Department of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 98 Brett Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, United States
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Naghdi T, Faham S, Mahmoudi T, Pourreza N, Ghavami R, Golmohammadi H. Phytochemicals toward Green (Bio)sensing. ACS Sens 2020; 5:3770-3805. [PMID: 33301670 DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.0c02101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Because of numerous inherent and unique characteristics of phytochemicals as bioactive compounds derived from plants, they have been widely used as one of the most interesting nature-based compounds in a myriad of fields. Moreover, a wide variety of phytochemicals offer a plethora of fascinating optical and electrochemical features that pave the way toward their development as optical and electrochemical (bio)sensors for clinical/health diagnostics, environmental monitoring, food quality control, and bioimaging. In the current review, we highlight how phytochemicals have been tailored and used for a wide variety of optical and electrochemical (bio)sensing and bioimaging applications, after classifying and introducing them according to their chemical structures. Finally, the current challenges and future directions/perspective on the optical and electrochemical (bio)sensing applications of phytochemicals are discussed with the goal of further expanding their potential applications in (bio)sensing technology. Regarding the advantageous features of phytochemicals as highly promising and potential biomaterials, we envisage that many of the existing chemical-based (bio)sensors will be replaced by phytochemical-based ones in the near future.
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- Tina Naghdi
- Nanosensor Bioplatforms Laboratory, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Research Center of Iran, Tehran 14335-186, Iran
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- Chemometrics Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj 66177-15175, Iran
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- Immunology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz 5166-15731, Iran
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- Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz 6153753843, Iran
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- Chemometrics Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj 66177-15175, Iran
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- Nanosensor Bioplatforms Laboratory, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Research Center of Iran, Tehran 14335-186, Iran
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Ta S, Das S, Ghosh M, Banerjee M, Hira SK, Manna PP, Das D. A unique benzimidazole-naphthalene hybrid molecule for independent detection of Zn 2+ and N 3- ions: Experimental and theoretical investigations. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2019; 209:170-185. [PMID: 30388587 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2018.10.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2018] [Revised: 10/01/2018] [Accepted: 10/07/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Single crystal X-ray structurally characterized benzimidazole-naphthalene hybrid (NABI) functions as a unique dual analyte sensor that can detect Zn2+ cation and N3- anion independently. The NABI forms chelate with Zn2+ to inhibit internal charge transfer (ICT) and CHN isomerisation resulting chelation enhanced fluorescence (CHEF). On the other hand, the sensing of N3- is based on formation of supramolecular H-bonded rigid assembly. The association constant of NABI for Zn2+ and N3- ions are 19 × 104 M-1 and 11 × 102 M-1, respectively. Corresponding limit of detections (LOD) are 6.85 × 10-8 and 1.82 × 10-7 M, respectively. NABI efficiently detects intracellular Zn2+ and N3- ions with no cytotoxicity on J774A.1cells under fluorescence microscope. DFT studies unlock underlying spectroscopic properties of free NABI and Zn2+/N3- bound forms.
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- Sabyasachi Ta
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India
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- Raina Swami Bholananda Vidyayatan, Purba Bardhaman, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Zoology, The University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India.
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India.
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