Design of genetic circuits that are robust to resource competition
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COISB_2021-1.pdf
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Author(s)
McBride, Cameron David
Grunberg, Theodore Wu
Del Vecchio, Domitilla
Date Issued
2021
Journal
Current Opinion in Systems Biology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Citation
McBride, Cameron D, Grunberg, Theodore W and Del Vecchio, Domitilla. 2021. "Design of genetic circuits that are robust to resource competition." Current Opinion in Systems Biology, 28.
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Author's final manuscript
Abstract
The ability to engineer genetic circuits in living cells has tremendous potential in many applications, from health, to energy, to bio-manufacturing. Although substantial efforts have gone into design approaches that make circuits robust to variable cellular context, context dependence of genetic circuits remains a significant hurdle. We review intra-cellular resource competition, one culprit of context dependence, and summarize recent efforts toward design approaches to mitigate it. We classify these approaches into two main groups: global control and local control. In the former, the pool of resources is regulated to meet the demand, and in the latter, individual modules are regulated to be robust to variability in the pool of resources. Within each group, we highlight both feedback and feedforward implementations.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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DOI of Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1016/J.COISB.2021.100357
