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Next Meeting When: 2/1 4 pm (or suggest other days and times) Where: ? Paper: Drinnenberg IA, Weinberg DE, Xie KT, Mower JP, Wolfe KH, Fink GR, and Bartel DP. RNAi in budding yeast. Science. 2009 Oct 23;326(5952):544-550. DOI:10.1126/science.1176945 | Moderator: Andrew Suggested Future Papers Lartigue C, Vashee S, Algire MA, Chuang RY, Benders GA, Ma L, Noskov VN, Denisova EA, Gibson DG, Assad-Garcia N, Alperovich N, Thomas DW, Merryman C, Hutchison CA 3rd, Smith HO, Venter JC, and Glass JI. Creating bacterial strains from genomes that have been cloned and engineered in yeast. Science. 2009 Sep 25;325(5948):1693-6. DOI:10.1126/science.1173759 | Jones S, Peng PD, Yang S, Hsu C, Cohen CJ, Zhao Y, Abad J, Zheng Z, Rosenberg SA, and Morgan RA. Lentiviral vector design for optimal T cell receptor gene expression in the transduction of peripheral blood lymphocytes and tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes. Hum Gene Ther. 2009 Jun;20(6):630-40. DOI:10.1089/hum.2008.048 | Schreier B, Stumpp C, Wiesner S, and Höcker B. Computational design of ligand binding is not a solved problem. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Nov 3;106(44):18491-6. DOI:10.1073/pnas.0907950106 | Antonczak AK, Simova Z, and Tippmann EM. A critical examination of Escherichia coli esterase activity. J Biol Chem. 2009 Oct 16;284(42):28795-800. DOI:10.1074/jbc.M109.027409 | Comments on Papers I suggest a duo of Schreier et al. and Antonczak et al. (Potential) misconduct, extortion, scandal, and ultimately retraction. [1][2]-Josh Voting on Papers Lartigue et al.: Jones et al.: Schreier et al. and Antonczak et al.: Josh Past Papers Dueber JE, Wu GC, Malmirchegini GR, Moon TS, Petzold CJ, Ullal AV, Prather KL, and Keasling JD. Synthetic protein scaffolds provide modular control over metabolic flux. Nat Biotechnol. 2009 Aug;27(8):753-9. DOI:10.1038/nbt.1557 | Wang HH, Isaacs FJ, Carr PA, Sun ZZ, Xu G, Forest CR, and Church GM. Programming cells by multiplex genome engineering and accelerated evolution. Nature. 2009 Aug 13;460(7257):894-898. DOI:10.1038/nature08187 | Yu RC, Pesce CG, Colman-Lerner A, Lok L, Pincus D, Serra E, Holl M, Benjamin K, Gordon A, and Brent R. Negative feedback that improves information transmission in yeast signalling. Nature. 2008 Dec 11;456(7223):755-61. DOI:10.1038/nature07513 | Lincoln TA and Joyce GF. Self-sustained replication of an RNA enzyme. Science. 2009 Feb 27;323(5918):1229-32. DOI:10.1126/science.1167856 | Lam BJ and Joyce GF. Autocatalytic aptazymes enable ligand-dependent exponential amplification of RNA. Nat Biotechnol. 2009 Mar;27(3):288-92. DOI:10.1038/nbt.1528 | Nevozhay D, Adams RM, Murphy KF, Josic K, and Balázsi G. Negative autoregulation linearizes the dose-response and suppresses the heterogeneity of gene expression. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Mar 31;106(13):5123-8. DOI:10.1073/pnas.0809901106 | Aged Out Ellis T, Wang X, and Collins JJ. Diversity-based, model-guided construction of synthetic gene networks with predicted functions. Nat Biotechnol. 2009 May;27(5):465-71. DOI:10.1038/nbt.1536 | Kowtoniuk WE, Shen Y, Heemstra JM, Agarwal I, and Liu DR. A chemical screen for biological small molecule-RNA conjugates reveals CoA-linked RNA. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 May 12;106(19):7768-73. DOI:10.1073/pnas.0900528106 | Burns WR, Zheng Z, Rosenberg SA, and Morgan RA. Lack of specific gamma-retroviral vector long terminal repeat promoter silencing in patients receiving genetically engineered lymphocytes and activation upon lymphocyte restimulation. Blood. 2009 Oct 1;114(14):2888-99. DOI:10.1182/blood-2009-01-199216 | Friedland AE, Lu TK, Wang X, Shi D, Church G, and Collins JJ. Synthetic gene networks that count. Science. 2009 May 29;324(5931):1199-202. DOI:10.1126/science.1172005 | Mitchell A, Romano GH, Groisman B, Yona A, Dekel E, Kupiec M, Dahan O, and Pilpel Y. Adaptive prediction of environmental changes by microorganisms. Nature. 2009 Jul 9;460(7252):220-4. DOI:10.1038/nature08112 | Kudla G, Murray AW, Tollervey D, and Plotkin JB. Coding-sequence determinants of gene expression in Escherichia coli. Science. 2009 Apr 10;324(5924):255-8. DOI:10.1126/science.1170160 | Ray PS, Jia J, Yao P, Majumder M, Hatzoglou M, and Fox PL. A stress-responsive RNA switch regulates VEGFA expression. Nature. 2009 Feb 12;457(7231):915-9. DOI:10.1038/nature07598 | Runguphan W and O'Connor SE. Metabolic reprogramming of periwinkle plant culture. Nat Chem Biol. 2009 Mar;5(3):151-3. DOI:10.1038/nchembio.141 | Han J, Pedersen JS, Kwon SC, Belair CD, Kim YK, Yeom KH, Yang WY, Haussler D, Blelloch R, and Kim VN. Posttranscriptional crossregulation between Drosha and DGCR8. Cell. 2009 Jan 9;136(1):75-84. DOI:10.1016/j.cell.2008.10.053 | Fung E, Wong WW, Suen JK, Bulter T, Lee SG, and Liao JC. A synthetic gene-metabolic oscillator. Nature. 2005 May 5;435(7038):118-22. DOI:10.1038/nature03508 | Cantone I, Marucci L, Iorio F, Ricci MA, Belcastro V, Bansal M, Santini S, di Bernardo M, di Bernardo D, and Cosma MP. A yeast synthetic network for in vivo assessment of reverse-engineering and modeling approaches. Cell. 2009 Apr 3;137(1):172-81. DOI:10.1016/j.cell.2009.01.055 | Kempe K, Higashi Y, Frick S, Sabarna K, and Kutchan TM. RNAi suppression of the morphine biosynthetic gene salAT and evidence of association of pathway enzymes. Phytochemistry. 2009 Mar;70(5):579-89. DOI:10.1016/j.phytochem.2009.03.002 | Tokuriki N and Tawfik DS. Chaperonin overexpression promotes genetic variation and enzyme evolution. Nature. 2009 Jun 4;459(7247):668-73. DOI:10.1038/nature08009 | Eldar A, Chary VK, Xenopoulos P, Fontes ME, Losón OC, Dworkin J, Piggot PJ, and Elowitz MB. Partial penetrance facilitates developmental evolution in bacteria. Nature. 2009 Jul 23;460(7254):510-4. DOI:10.1038/nature08150 |