Synthetic addiction extends the productive life time of engineered Escherichia coli populations

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 115, Issue 10, 2018, Pages 2347-2352

  Rugbjerg, Peter ^a   Sarup Lytzen, Kira ^a   Nagy, Mariann ^a   Sommer, Morten Otto Alexander ^a  

^a Chalmers University of Technology   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Genetic heterogeneity; Population dynamics; Scale up; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

MEVALONIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOENGINEERING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIATION; METABOLITE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BIOREACTOR; ESSENTIAL GENE; FERMENTATION; GENETICS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

BIOREACTORS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FERMENTATION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MEVALONIC ACID; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 85042918593     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1718622115     Document Type: Article

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