A synthetic Escherichia coli predator-prey ecosystem

Molecular Systems Biology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Balagaddé, Frederick K ^a,b,e   Song, Hao ^c   Ozaki, Jun ^c,f   Collins, Cynthia H ^d,g   Barnet, Matthew ^d   Arnold, Frances H ^d   Quake, Stephen R ^a   You, Lingchong ^c  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c Duke University   (United States)

^d California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f Shinjuku Hirose Bldg   (Japan)

^g RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Microchemostat; Microfluidics; Quorum sensing; Synthetic biology; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUORUM SENSING; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; METABOLISM; MICROFLUIDICS; OSCILLOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BAYSILON; DIMETICONE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIMETHYLPOLYSILOXANES; ECOSYSTEM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROFLUIDICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OSCILLOMETRY; PLASMIDS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 42149089190     PISSN: 17444292     EISSN: 17444292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/msb.2008.24     Document Type: Article

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