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ArticleNucleic acids research2025

Quantum-inspired logic for advanced Transcriptional Programming.

Prasaad T Milner, Dowan Kim, Corey J Wilson

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Prasaad T MilnerGeorgia Institute of Technology, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, 311 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332-0100, United States.
Dowan KimGeorgia Institute of Technology, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, 311 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332-0100, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-7784-1743
Corey J WilsonGeorgia Institute of Technology, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, 311 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332-0100, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-3040-1676

Funding

Domesticating and Mapping Interactions of the Human Gastrointestinal MicrobiomeR35GM153457 · NIGMS · GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI Corey J. Wilson · 2024 to 2026
$1.1M
National Science Foundation 1934836National Science Foundation 2123855National Science Foundation 2226663National Science Foundation 2319231NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM153457NIH HHS R35GM153457
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The tenets of intelligent biological systems are (i) scalable decision-making, (ii) inheritable memory, and (iii) communication. This study aims to increase the complexity of decision-making operations beyond standard Boolean logic, while minimizing the metabolic burden imposed on the chassis cell. To this end, we present a new platform technology for constructing genetic circuits with multiple OUTPUT gene control using fewer INPUTs relative to conventional genetic circuits. Inspired by principles from quantum computing, we engineered synthetic bidirectional promoters, regulated by synthetic transcription factors, to construct 1-INPUT, 2-OUTPUT logical operations-i.e. biological QUBIT and PAULI-X logic gates-designed as compressed genetic circuits. We then layered said gates to engineer additional quantum-inspired logical operations of increasing complexity-e.g. FEYNMAN and TOFFOLI gates. In addition, we engineered a 2-INPUT, 4-OUTPUT quantum operation to showcase the capacity to utilize the entire permutation INPUT space. Finally, we developed a recombinase-based memory operation to remap the truth table between two disparate logic gates-i.e. converting a QUBIT operation to an antithetical PAULI-X operation in situ. This study introduces a novel and versatile synthetic biology toolkit, which expands the biocomputing capacity of Transcriptional Programming via the development of compressed and scalable multi-INPUT/OUTPUT logical operations.

Indexed as

Gene Regulatory NetworksTranscription, GeneticComputers, MolecularLogicPromoter Regions, GeneticQuantum TheorySynthetic BiologyTranscription FactorsTranscription Factors

Identifiers

PMID40396492
PMCPMC12093148

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