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ArticleScientific reports2019

A Novel Bioelectronic Reporter System in Living Cells Tested with a Synthetic Biological Comparator.

Ji Zeng, Areen Banerjee, Jaewook Kim, Yijie Deng, Tim W Chapman, Ramez Daniel, Rahul Sarpeshkar

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Article in Scientific reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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7 authors.

Ji ZengThayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, 03755, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8770-3048
Areen BanerjeeThayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, 03755, USA.
Jaewook KimThayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, 03755, USA.
Yijie DengThayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, 03755, USA.
Tim W ChapmanMolecular and Cell Biology, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, 03755, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6303-1080
Ramez DanielTechnion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 3200003, Israel.
Rahul SarpeshkarDepartments of Engineering, Microbiology & Immunology, Physics, and Molecular and Systems Biology, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, 03755, USA. rahul.sarpeshkar@dartmouth.edu.

Funding

High Performance Simulation Libraries for Systems BiologyR01GM123032 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI SAURO, HERBERT M. · 2017 to 2020
$1.7M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM123032
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As the fields of biotechnology and synthetic biology expand, cheap and sensitive tools are needed to measure increasingly complicated genetic circuits. In order to bypass some drawbacks of optical fluorescent reporting systems, we have designed and created a co-culture microbial fuel cell (MFC) system for electronic reporting. This system leverages the syntrophic growth of Escheriachia. coli (E. coli) and an electrogenic bacterium Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 (S. oneidensis). The fermentative products of E. coli provide a carbon and electron source for S. oneidensis MR-1, which then reports on such activity electrically at the anode of the MFC. To further test the capability of electrical reporting of complicated synthetic circuits, a novel synthetic biological comparator was designed and tested with both fluorescent and electrical reporting systems. The results suggest that the electrical reporting system is a good alternative to commonly used optical fluorescent reporter systems since it is a non-toxic reporting system with a much wider dynamic range.

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Bioelectric Energy SourcesCoculture TechniquesEscherichia coliFermentationFluorescenceShewanellaSynthetic Biology

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PMID31086248
PMCPMC6513987

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