Designing microbial consortia with defined social interactions

Nature Chemical Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2018, Pages 821-829

  Kong, Wentao ^a,b   Meldgin, David R ^a,b   Collins, James J ^c,d,e   Lu, Ting ^a,b,f  

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

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

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^d BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LCNA PROTEIN; NISIN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMENSALISM; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIOENGINEERING; COMMENSALISM; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; ECOSYSTEM; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NEUTRALISM; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPACE AND SPACE RELATED PHENOMENA; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROFLORA;

LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; MICROBIOTA; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 85048964823     PISSN: 15524450     EISSN: 15524469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41589-018-0091-7     Document Type: Article

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