Journal
JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INTERFACE
Volume 11, Issue 96, Pages -Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2014.0065
Keywords
co-culture; synthetic biology; microbial consortia; mixed cultures; cell-cell interaction; intercellular communication
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- BBSRC Targeted Priority Studentship
- RCUK Fellowship in Biopharmaceutical Processing
- EPSRC [EP/K038648/1]
- EPSRC [EP/G036004/1, EP/K038648/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/G036004/1, EP/K038648/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Co-culture techniques find myriad applications in biology for studying natural or synthetic interactions between cell populations. Such techniques are of great importance in synthetic biology, as multi-species cell consortia and other natural or synthetic ecology systems are widely seen to hold enormous potential for foundational research as well as novel industrial, medical and environmental applications with many proof-of-principle studies in recent years. What is needed for co-cultures to fulfil their potential? Cell-cell interactions in co-cultures are strongly influenced by the extracellular environment, which is determined by the experimental set-up, which therefore needs to be given careful consideration. An overview of existing experimental and theoretical co-culture set-ups in synthetic biology and adjacent fields is given here, and challenges and opportunities involved in such experiments are discussed. Greater focus on foundational technology developments for co-cultures is needed for many synthetic biology systems to realize their potential in both applications and answering biological questions.
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