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José Ignacio Rojas Echenique
Evolutionary biologist. Postdoc with Charlie Boone and Brenda Andrews at the University of Toronto.
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Sergey Kryazhimskiy 27. stu
My lab, in collaboration with at U Arizona, has a new preprint. The work was led by my fantastic postdoc . He describes the main results in this thread:
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Nature 20. stu
This week on the Nature cover: Waves of mutation. Barcode system images evolutionary dynamics of laboratory yeast. Browse the issue here:
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Anastassia Pogoutse 17. stu
If you haven't yet read 's paper, perhaps you'd like to read the blog post I wrote on it?
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Nature 15. stu
A renewable barcoding system reveals the evolutionary dynamics of laboratory budding yeast, showing that fitness changes over time in a travelling wave of adaptation that can fluctuate owing to leapfrogging events, according to a Nature paper.
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José Ignacio Rojas Echenique 17. stu
Odgovor korisniku/ci @jireva
Our system requires that the barcodes we integrate into the genome stay there,even after hundreds of generations of evolution. Unfortunately, Cre-Lox integration is reversible. Worse yet, at equilibrium, integration substrates are favored over integrated product.
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José Ignacio Rojas Echenique 17. stu
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The shift from a reaction with an equilibrium that favors integration to a reaction that produces effectively stable integration means the difference between a system that will work by itself and a system that can become a module in a more complex technology.
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José Ignacio Rojas Echenique 17. stu
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Only a single arm mutation was able to reduce the rate of excision to acceptable levels (more than 6 orders of magnitude lower than WT) while still allowing integration. It is difficult to understate importance of this result to the viability of our technique.
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José Ignacio Rojas Echenique 17. stu
Odgovor korisniku/ci @alex_nguyen_ba
and I designed an in vitro assay to measure the stability of Cre-Lox integration products and tested a large number of inverted repeat mutations from the literature.
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José Ignacio Rojas Echenique 17. stu
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If the product of recombination contains a doubly mutated Lox site, the reaction equilibrium shifts towards integration.
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José Ignacio Rojas Echenique 17. stu
Odgovor korisniku/ci @jireva
An ingenious solution to this problem takes advantage of mutant Lox inverted repeats (IRs) thought to decrease Cre binding. Since Cre binding to Lox IRs is cooperative, a site with a single mutated IR will recombine normally but a double mutant site will not.
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José Ignacio Rojas Echenique 17. stu
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Our system requires that the barcodes we integrate into the genome stay there,even after hundreds of generations of evolution. Unfortunately, Cre-Lox integration is reversible. Worse yet, at equilibrium, integration substrates are favored over integrated product.
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José Ignacio Rojas Echenique 14. stu
Odgovor korisniku/ci @jireva
Over the next couple of days, I'll describe some of the essential components of our technology and how they make long term lineage tracking possible, including: A novel, hyper-directional, set of Lox sites Reiterative Cre-Lox cassette exchange The splicing trap
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José Ignacio Rojas Echenique 14. stu
Odgovor korisniku/ci @alex_nguyen_ba
and I spent years tracking down rebellious cells that refused to acquire new barcodes. We analyzed how they managed to escape our selections and redesigned our system again and again to try to lead them in the right direction.
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José Ignacio Rojas Echenique 14. stu
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The same argument applies to cells that acquire the ability to circumvent selection during gene stacking. The minor flaws of technologies in synthetic biology seem to limit our ability to create complex combinations of simpler constructs.
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José Ignacio Rojas Echenique 14. stu
Odgovor korisniku/ci @jireva
In a traditional DNA barcoding applications, rare cells that acquire the ability to circumvent barcoding selection are not a big issue. In our case, these rebellious cells would be fatal, since they would have a huge advantage during the next round of barcode addition.
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José Ignacio Rojas Echenique 14. stu
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This fusion of these technologies allows us to sequentially add random DNA barcodes into an evolving population to create a time-sorted barcode array at a specific locus in each cell. Earlier barcodes on this array identify more distant ancestors.
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José Ignacio Rojas Echenique 14. stu
Odgovor korisniku/ci @jireva
Our technique is an attempt to recombine two existing technologies, high resolution DNA barcoding (see ), and gene stacking (e.g. ).
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José Ignacio Rojas Echenique 14. stu
Here's a thread telling the story of our new technique for genetic recording of lineage history during long term evolution experiments. The work was co-led with and in 's lab. Read the paper here:
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Milo Johnson 14. stu
Notice here that Alex uses the two L spelling of travel[l]ing while Ivana opted for the single L. Is it a deep cultural difference between wet lab / dry lab? Will side with Ivana and the traditional American spelling or Alex and the British journal's favourite spelling?
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Ivana Cvijovic 13. stu
What do you expect evolution to look like in a microbial population? Check out our new study offering a view of that over 1000 generations in yeast in the lab. co-led by , , in 's lab
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