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Synthetic biology: Engineered stable ecosystems

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Co-culture of bacterial cells engineered with quorum-sensing and self-lysis circuits allows coupled oscillatory dynamics and stable states, opening the way to engineered microbial ecosystems with targeted dynamics and extending gene circuits to the ecosystem level.

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Figure 1: Ecosystem-scale engineered dynamics.

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  1. the Warwick Integrative Synthetic Biology Centre (WISB) and School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK

    Alfonso Jaramillo

  2. ISSB, CNRS, Université Evry, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Evry, 91025, France

    Alfonso Jaramillo

  3. Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio), University of Valencia-CSIC, Paterna, 46980, Spain

    Alfonso Jaramillo

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Jaramillo, A. Synthetic biology: Engineered stable ecosystems. Nat Microbiol 2, 17119 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmicrobiol.2017.119

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