Coupling spatial segregation with synthetic circuits to control bacterial survival

Molecular Systems Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Huang, Shuqiang ^a   Lee, Anna Jisu ^a   Tsoi, Ryan ^a   Wu, Feilun ^a   Zhang, Ying ^b   Leong, Kam W ^b   You, Lingchong ^a,c  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

collective survival; engineered bacteria; safeguard control; spatial segregation

Indexed keywords

SYNTHETIC DNA; ALGINATE POLYLYSINE ALGINATE; ALGINIC ACID; POLYLYSINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; DYNAMICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROWTH; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MICROCAPSULE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; LAB ON A CHIP; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MOLECULAR MODEL; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

ALGINATES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LAB-ON-A-CHIP DEVICES; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; POLYLYSINE; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 84959323351     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17444292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15252/msb.20156567     Document Type: Article

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