Programming the group behaviors of bacterial communities with synthetic cellular communication

Bioresources and Bioprocessing

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kong, Wentao ^a,b   Celik, Venhar ^a,b   Liao, Chen ^a,b   Hua, Qiang ^c   Lu, Ting ^a,b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Bacterial communities; Cellular communication; Collective behaviors; Dynamics; Gene circuits; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CELL ENGINEERING; GENES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; POPULATION STATISTICS; TIMING CIRCUITS;

ARTIFICIAL GENE; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; CELL-CELL INTERACTION; CELLULAR BEHAVIORS; COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOUR; GENE CIRCUITS; GROUP BEHAVIOR; NATURAL COMMUNICATION; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYNTHETIC GENE CIRCUITS;

BACTERIA;

EID: 85014008203     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21974365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40643-014-0024-6     Document Type: Review

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