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Christien B. Dykstra

Concordia UniversityORCID 0000-0002-3157-5515Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:experimental assay· 2 Organism:yeast· 2 Research Focus:protein design· 1 Assay:proteomics· 1

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Synthetic BiologybioRxivPreprintOct 2, 2026

Heterologous engineering of receptors using OrthoRep (HERO) for directed evolution of GPCRs in yeast

Christien Dykstra, Björn D. M. Bean, Olivier Rousseau…·Vincent J. J. Martin

The paper improves GPCR biosensors in yeast using a new platform called HERO, achieving significant sensitivity gains through directed evolution.

DOI 10.64898/2026.09.30.755785

yeastproteomics

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Synthetic BiologyACS Synthetic BiologyPeer-reviewedAug 16, 2023

CRAPS: Chromosomal-Repair-Assisted Pathway Shuffling in yeast

Christien B. Dykstra, Michael E. Pyne, Vincent J. J. Martin

CRAPS enables in vivo assembly of multiple pathway configurations by using yeast chromosomal repair and gRNA activation, resulting in diverse carotenoid-producing strains.

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yeastexperimental assay

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