Engineering Biology
Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2020
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Volume 4, Issue 2
June 2020
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- Author(s): Bart Pander ; Zahara Mortimer ; Craig Woods ; Callum McGregor ; Andrew Dempster ; Lisa Thomas ; Joshua Maliepaard ; Robert Mansfield ; Peter Rowe ; Preben Krabben
- Source: Engineering Biology, Volume 4, Issue 2, p. 21 –24
- DOI: 10.1049/enb.2020.0005
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Using hydrogen oxidising bacteria to produce protein and other food and feed ingredients is a form of industrial biotechnology that is gaining traction. The technology fixes carbon dioxide into products without the light requirements of agriculture and biotech that rely on primary producers such as plants and algae while promising higher growth rates, drastically less land, fresh water, and mineral requirements. The significant body of scientific knowledge on hydrogen oxidising bacteria continues to grow and genetic engineering tools are well developed for specific species. The scale-up success of other types of gas- fermentation using carbon monoxide or methane has paved the way for scale-up of a process that uses a mix of hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide to produce bacteria as a food and feed ingredients in a highly sustainable fashion.
Hydrogen oxidising bacteria for production of single-cell protein and other food and feed ingredients
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- Author(s): Jure Tica ; Tong Zhu ; Mark Isalan
- Source: Engineering Biology, Volume 4, Issue 2, p. 25 –31
- DOI: 10.1049/enb.2020.0009
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Applying the principles of engineering to Synthetic Biology relies on the development of robust and modular genetic components, as well as underlying quantitative dynamical models that closely predict their behaviour. This study looks at a simple positive feedback circuit built by placing filamentous phage secretin pIV under a phage shock promoter. A single-equation ordinary differential equation model is developed to closely replicate the behaviour of the circuit, and its response to inhibition by TetR. A stepwise approach is employed to fit the model's parameters to time-series data for the circuit. This approach allows the dissection of the role of different parameters and leads to the identification of dependencies and redundancies between parameters. The developed genetic circuit and associated model may be used as a building block for larger circuits with more complex dynamics, which require tight quantitative control or tuning.
Dynamical model fitting to a synthetic positive feedback circuit in E. coli
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