Communications Biology (Jul 2021)

Quantitative characterization of recombinase-based digitizer circuits enables predictable amplification of biological signals

  • Katherine A. Kiwimagi,
  • Justin H. Letendre,
  • Benjamin H. Weinberg,
  • Junmin Wang,
  • Mingzhe Chen,
  • Leandro Watanabe,
  • Chris J. Myers,
  • Jacob Beal,
  • Wilson W. Wong,
  • Ron Weiss

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02325-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Kiwimagi & Letendre et al. present a workflow to quantitatively define recombinase-based digitizer and predict responses to different input signals. With a mechanistic/phenotypic model that can predict circuit performance, they generate a synthetic cell-cell communication device that amplifies a synNotch output signal.