Synthetic biology: Engineered stable ecosystems

Alfonso Jaramillo (1, 2, 3)

1 ISSB - Institut de biologie systémique et synthétique
2 UV - Universitat de València
3 WSB - Warwick Systems Biology [Coventry]

Co-culture of bacterial cells engineered with quorum-sensing and self-lysis circuits allows coupled oscillatory dynamics and stable states, opening the way to engineered microbial ecosystems with targeted dynamics and extending gene circuits to the ecosystem level.

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]

Alfonso Jaramillo. Synthetic biology: Engineered stable ecosystems. Nature Microbiology, 2017, 2 (8), pp.17119. ⟨10.1038/nmicrobiol.2017.119⟩. ⟨cea-01887541⟩