Designing RNA switches for synthetic biology using inverse-RNA-folding

Sumit Mukherjee, Danny Barash

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Abstract

RNA switches respond to specific ligands to control gene expression. They are widely used in synthetic biology applications and hold potential for future RNA-based therapeutic breakthroughs. However, the crux is their precise design. Here, we will discuss how inverse-RNA-folding could be utilized for the accurate design of RNA switches.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)517-521
Number of pages5
JournalTrends in Biotechnology
Volume42
Issue number5
Early online date30 Nov 2023
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2024
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

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© 2023 Elsevier Ltd

Funding

S.M. and D.B. would like to thank the Lynne and William Frankel Center for Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University, where the concept of this paper was designed and the research was performed. S.M. would like to acknowledge the National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA, for providing Intramural Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship. S.M. received the NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence (FARE 2024). Figures were created with BioRender.com. We acknowledge that due to the format restrictions for this forum article, we were unable to include several relevant references, including important ones related to the methodology of inverse-RNA-folding. No interests are declared by the authors. S.M. and D.B. would like to thank the Lynne and William Frankel Center for Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University, where the concept of this paper was designed and the research was performed. S.M. would like to acknowledge the National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA, for providing Intramural Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship. S.M. received the NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence (FARE 2024). Figures were created with BioRender.com . We acknowledge that due to the format restrictions for this forum article, we were unable to include several relevant references, including important ones related to the methodology of inverse-RNA-folding.

FundersFunder number
Lynne and William Frankel Center for Computer Science
National Institutes of HealthFARE 2024

    Keywords

    • RNA switch
    • RNA-based therapeutics
    • inverse-RNA-folding
    • riboswitch
    • ribozyme
    • synthetic biology

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