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| Title |
Artificially Constructed Quorum-Sensing Circuits Are Used for Subtle Control of Bacterial Population Density
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, August 2014
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0104578 |
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| Authors |
Zhaoshou Wang, Xin Wu, Jianghai Peng, Yidan Hu, Baishan Fang, Shiyang Huang |
| Abstract |
Vibrio fischeri is a typical quorum-sensing bacterium for which lux box, luxR, and luxI have been identified as the key elements involved in quorum sensing. To decode the quorum-sensing mechanism, an artificially constructed cell-cell communication system has been built. In brief, the system expresses several programmed cell-death BioBricks and quorum-sensing genes driven by the promoters lux pR and PlacO-1 in Escherichia coli cells. Their transformation and expression was confirmed by gel electrophoresis and sequencing. To evaluate its performance, viable cell numbers at various time periods were investigated. Our results showed that bacteria expressing killer proteins corresponding to ribosome binding site efficiency of 0.07, 0.3, 0.6, or 1.0 successfully sensed each other in a population-dependent manner and communicated with each other to subtly control their population density. This was also validated using a proposed simple mathematical model. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 2 | 67% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 100% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 6% |
| Germany | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 50 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 18 | 33% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 13% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 6 | 11% |
| Researcher | 6 | 11% |
| Other | 5 | 9% |
| Unknown | 6 | 11% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 17 | 31% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 7 | 13% |
| Engineering | 5 | 9% |
| Environmental Science | 4 | 7% |
| Unspecified | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 10 | 19% |
| Unknown | 9 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
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