Journal
CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 20, Issue 4, Pages 461-470Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2009.08.006
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Funding
- National Institutes of Health
- National Science Foundation
- DuPont Company
- Packard Foundation
- Department of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University
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Synthetic biology encompasses the design of new biological parts and systems as well as the modulation of existing biological networks to generate novel functions. In recent years, increasing emphasis has been placed on the engineering of population-level behaviors using cell-cell communication. From the engineering perspective, cell-cell communication serves as a versatile regulatory module that enables coordination among cells in and between populations and facilitates the generation of reliable dynamics. In addition to exploring biological 'design principles' via the construction of increasingly complex dynamics, communication-based synthetic systems can be used as well-defined model systems to study ecological and social interactions such as competition, cooperation, and predation. Here we discuss the dynamic properties of cell-cell communication modules, how they can be engineered for synthetic circuit design, and applications of these systems.
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