DSCI: a database of synthetic biology components for innate immunity and cell engineering decision-making processes.

Abstract

Although significant progress of clinical strategy has been made in gene editing and cell engineering in immunotherapy, it is now apparent that design and modification in terms of complex signaling pathways and motifs on medical synthetic biology are still full of challenges. Innate immunity, the first line of host defense against pathogens, is critical for anti-pathogens immune response as well as regulating durable and protective T cell-mediated anti-tumor responses. Here, we introduce DSCI (Database of Synthetic Biology Components for Innate Immunity, https://dsci.renlab.cn/ ), a web-accessible and integrative database that provides better insights and strategies for innate immune signaling circuit design in biosynthesis. Users can interactively navigate comprehensive and carefully curated components resources that presented as visualized signaling motifs that participate in innate immunity. The current release of DSCI incorporates 1240 independent components and more than 4000 specific entries contextually annotated from public literature with experimental verification. The data integrated into DSCI includes the components of pathways, relationships between regulators, signal motifs based on regulatory cascades, and loop graphs, all of which have been comprehensively annotated to help guide modifications to gene circuits. With the support of DSCI, users can easily obtain guidance of gene circuits construction to make decision of cell engineering based on innate immunity. DSCI not only provides comprehensive and specialized resource on the biological components of innate immune synthesis, but also serves as a useful tool to offer modification or generation strategies for medical synthetic biology.