ReviewGenes & development2010
Dynamics in the mixed microbial concourse.
Review in Genes & development, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 82 papers.
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82 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Stress-induced metabolic exchanges between complementary bacterial types underly a dynamic mechanism of inter-species stress resistance.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Photosynthetically produced sucrose by immobilized Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 drives biotransformation in E. coli.Biotechnology for biofuels and bioproducts · 2022Article
- Light-Driven Synthetic Biology: Progress in Research and Industrialization of Cyanobacterial Cell Factory.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Differential Amino Acid Uptake and Depletion in Mono-Cultures and Co-Cultures ofMicroorganisms · 2022Article
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- Metagenomic profiling of ocular surface microbiome changes inFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022Article
- Ocular surface microbiota: Ophthalmic infectious disease and probiotics.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Review
- Construction of Environmental Synthetic Microbial Consortia: Based on Engineering and Ecological Principles.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Review
- Strain heterogeneity, cooccurrence network, taxonomic composition and functional profile of the healthy ocular surface microbiome.Eye and vision (London, England) · 2021Article
- Metabolic modelling approaches for describing and engineering microbial communities.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2021Review
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Abstract
Isolated, clonal populations of cells are rarely found in nature. The emergent properties of microbial consortia present a challenge for the systems approach to biology, as chances for competition, communication, or collaboration multiply with the number of interacting agents. This review focuses on recent work on intercourse within biofilms, among quorum-sensing populations, and between cross-feeding metabolic cooperators. New tools from synthetic biology allow microbial interactions to be designed and tightly controlled, creating valuable model systems. We address both natural and synthetic partnerships, with an emphasis on how system behaviors derive from the properties of their components. Essential features of microbial biology arose in the context of a very mixed culture and cannot be understood without unscrambling it.
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