Browse the toolkit beneath workflows. The mechanism branch runs mechanism -> architecture -> component, while the technique branch runs from high-level approaches down to concrete methods.
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Mechanism Branch
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Mechanisms
Top-level concepts: biophysical action modes such as heterodimerization, photocleavage, or RNA binding.
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Architectures
Arrangements that realize or deploy mechanisms, including switches, construct patterns, and delivery strategies.
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Components
Low-level parts and sequence-defined elements used inside architectures, including protein domains and RNA elements.
Technique Branch
Layer 1
Approaches
High-level engineering practices such as computational design, directed evolution, sequence verification, and functional assay.
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Methods
Concrete methods used to design, build, verify, or characterize engineered systems.
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Metabolons are multienzyme assemblies that colocate sequential enzyme active sites to improve pathway flux. Synthetic metabolon-like complexes have been reported in microbial systems and, in some cases, can be isolated as independent entities that catalyze biosynthetic reactions ex vivo.
Synthetic multienzyme complexes are engineered multienzyme assemblies, spanning static enzyme nanostructures to dynamic enzyme coacervates, that arrange sequential biosynthetic enzymes in metabolon-like configurations. Some complexes assembled inside microbial cells can be isolated as independent catalytic entities and used for ex vivo biosynthesis.
Special emphasis is placed on BMCs for their spatial precision, selective permeability, and ability to encapsulate multi-enzyme pathways. Recent advances in synthetic biology, from orthogonal shell engineering to modular cargo recruitment, underscore their transformative potential for pathway design and metabolic control.