Engineering Complexity in Bacterial Regulatory Circuits for Biotechnological Applications

ABSTRACT Engineering microbial systems allows the generation of new technologies having significant impact in the biotechnological industry and on human health. In the past few years, several synthetic biology approaches have been implemented in bacteria to allow precise engineering of novel regulat...

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Autores principales: Cauã Antunes Westmann, María-Eugenia Guazzaroni, Rafael Silva-Rocha
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:d7b87afd93074a77bba54c4013b63ba82021-12-02T18:44:39ZEngineering Complexity in Bacterial Regulatory Circuits for Biotechnological Applications10.1128/mSystems.00151-172379-5077https://doaj.org/article/d7b87afd93074a77bba54c4013b63ba82018-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSystems.00151-17https://doaj.org/toc/2379-5077ABSTRACT Engineering microbial systems allows the generation of new technologies having significant impact in the biotechnological industry and on human health. In the past few years, several synthetic biology approaches have been implemented in bacteria to allow precise engineering of novel regulatory circuits for several applications. The advent of high-throughput technologies and clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)/Cas9-based DNA editing techniques have been pivotal in this process. Yet, despite the tremendous advances experienced recently, there are still a number of bottlenecks that need to be overcome in order to generate high-performance redesigned living machines, and the use of novel computer-aided approaches would be essential for this task. In this perspective, we discuss some of the main advances in the field of microbial engineering and the new technologies and approaches that should allow the construction of on demand synthetic microbial factories through the redesign of regulatory complexity.Cauã Antunes WestmannMaría-Eugenia GuazzaroniRafael Silva-RochaAmerican Society for Microbiologyarticlecombinatorial gene regulationCRISPR/Cas9circuit engineeringregulatory elementsregulatory networksynthetic biologyMicrobiologyQR1-502ENmSystems, Vol 3, Iss 2 (2018)
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collection DOAJ
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topic combinatorial gene regulation
CRISPR/Cas9
circuit engineering
regulatory elements
regulatory network
synthetic biology
Microbiology
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spellingShingle combinatorial gene regulation
CRISPR/Cas9
circuit engineering
regulatory elements
regulatory network
synthetic biology
Microbiology
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Cauã Antunes Westmann
María-Eugenia Guazzaroni
Rafael Silva-Rocha
Engineering Complexity in Bacterial Regulatory Circuits for Biotechnological Applications
description ABSTRACT Engineering microbial systems allows the generation of new technologies having significant impact in the biotechnological industry and on human health. In the past few years, several synthetic biology approaches have been implemented in bacteria to allow precise engineering of novel regulatory circuits for several applications. The advent of high-throughput technologies and clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)/Cas9-based DNA editing techniques have been pivotal in this process. Yet, despite the tremendous advances experienced recently, there are still a number of bottlenecks that need to be overcome in order to generate high-performance redesigned living machines, and the use of novel computer-aided approaches would be essential for this task. In this perspective, we discuss some of the main advances in the field of microbial engineering and the new technologies and approaches that should allow the construction of on demand synthetic microbial factories through the redesign of regulatory complexity.
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author Cauã Antunes Westmann
María-Eugenia Guazzaroni
Rafael Silva-Rocha
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María-Eugenia Guazzaroni
Rafael Silva-Rocha
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title Engineering Complexity in Bacterial Regulatory Circuits for Biotechnological Applications
title_short Engineering Complexity in Bacterial Regulatory Circuits for Biotechnological Applications
title_full Engineering Complexity in Bacterial Regulatory Circuits for Biotechnological Applications
title_fullStr Engineering Complexity in Bacterial Regulatory Circuits for Biotechnological Applications
title_full_unstemmed Engineering Complexity in Bacterial Regulatory Circuits for Biotechnological Applications
title_sort engineering complexity in bacterial regulatory circuits for biotechnological applications
publisher American Society for Microbiology
publishDate 2018
url https://doaj.org/article/d7b87afd93074a77bba54c4013b63ba8
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