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INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY
卷 11, 期 3, 页码 63-68出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/intbio/zyz005
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- Bill and Melinda Gates Trust
- AFRI NIFA Fellowships Grant Program: Predoctoral Fellowships from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture [1010727]
- United States Department of Agriculture [2013-02037, 2016-67017-26462]
- National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture [1013507]
Bacteria have major role in regulating human health and disease, therefore, there is a continuing need to develop new detection methods and therapeutics to combat them. Bacteriophages can be used to infect specific bacteria, which make them good candidates for detecting and editing bacterial populations. However, creating phage-based detection assays is somewhat limited by the difficulties in the engineering of phages. We present here a synthetic biology strategy to engineer phages using a simple in vitro method. We used this method to insert a NanoLuc luciferase expression cassette into the T7 phage, in order to construct the NRGp6 reporter phage. The synthetic NRGp6 phage was used to efficiently detect low concentrations of Escherichia coli from liquid culture. We envision that our approach will benefit synthetic biologists for constructing different kinds of engineered phages, and enable new approaches for phage-based therapeutics and diagnostics.
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