Publications by authors named "Lycka Kamoen"

Cutting-edge photonic devices frequently rely on microparticle components to focus and manipulate light. Conventional methods used to produce these microparticle components frequently offer limited control of their structural properties or require low-throughput nanofabrication of more complex structures. Here, we employ a synthetic biology approach to produce environmentally friendly, living microlenses with tunable structural properties.

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  • CRISPR technology helps scientists make precise changes in DNA, and understanding how cells repair broken DNA is important for this process.
  • Two important tools, Cas9 and Cas12a, are used for editing genes in plants, and they work a little differently when they create DNA breaks.
  • Both tools can cause mutations in similar ways, but they have different effects on how DNA is repaired, showing that either can be used effectively for engineering plants.
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Photonic devices are cutting-edge optical materials that produce narrow, intense beams of light, but their synthesis typically requires toxic, complex methodology. Here we employ a synthetic biology approach to produce environmentally-friendly, living microlenses with tunable structural properties. We engineered bacteria to display the silica biomineralization enzyme silicatein from aquatic sea sponges.

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A practical and powerful approach for genome editing in plants is delivery of CRISPR reagents via transformation. The double-strand break (DSB)-inducing enzyme is expressed from a transferred segment of bacterial DNA, the T-DNA, which upon transformation integrates at random locations into the host genome or is captured at the self-inflicted DSB site. To develop efficient strategies for precise genome editing, it is thus important to define the mechanisms that repair CRISPR-induced DSBs, as well as those that govern random and targeted integration of T-DNA.

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Combined overexpression of xylulokinase, pentose-phosphate-pathway enzymes and a heterologous xylose isomerase (XI) is required but insufficient for anaerobic growth of Saccharomyces cerevisiae on d-xylose. Single-step Cas9-assisted implementation of these modifications yielded a yeast strain expressing Piromyces XI that showed fast aerobic growth on d-xylose. However, anaerobic growth required a 12-day adaptation period.

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