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ArticleNature communications2020

Developing a pathway-independent and full-autonomous global resource allocation strategy to dynamically switching phenotypic states.

Junjun Wu, Meijiao Bao, Xuguo Duan, Peng Zhou, Caiwen Chen, Jiahua Gao, Shiyao Cheng, Qianqian Zhuang, Zhijun Zhao

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Article in Nature communications, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18 citing papers in PubMed.

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9 authors.

Junjun WuCollege of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210095, China. wujunjun@njau.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0002-7387-971X
Meijiao BaoCollege of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210095, China.
Xuguo DuanDepartment of Food Science and Technology, College of Light Industry and Food Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2136-0449
Peng ZhouCollege of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210095, China.
Caiwen ChenCollege of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210095, China.
Jiahua GaoCollege of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210095, China.
Shiyao ChengCollege of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210095, China.
Qianqian ZhuangState Key Laboratory of Biobased Material and Green Papermaking, School of Bioengineering, Qilu University of Technology, Jinan, 250353, China.
Zhijun ZhaoBiorefinery Laboratory, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 99 Haike Road, Shanghai, 201210, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A grand challenge of biological chemical production is the competition between synthetic circuits and host genes for limited cellular resources. Quorum sensing (QS)-based dynamic pathway regulations provide a pathway-independent way to rebalance metabolic flux over the course of the fermentation. Most cases, however, these pathway-independent strategies only have capacity for a single QS circuit functional in one cell. Furthermore, current dynamic regulations mainly provide localized control of metabolic flux. Here, with the aid of engineering synthetic orthogonal quorum-related circuits and global mRNA decay, we report a pathway-independent dynamic resource allocation strategy, which allows us to independently controlling two different phenotypic states to globally redistribute cellular resources toward synthetic circuits. The strategy which could pathway-independently and globally self-regulate two desired cell phenotypes including growth and production phenotypes could totally eliminate the need for human supervision of the entire fermentation.

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BiocatalysisBiosynthetic PathwaysEscherichia coliEscherichia coli ProteinsFatty AcidsFermentationGene Expression Regulation, BacterialMetabolic EngineeringQuorum SensingRNA StabilityEscherichia coli ProteinsFatty Acids

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PMID33139748
PMCPMC7606477

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