一个环境敏感的合成微生物生态系统。
An environment-sensitive synthetic microbial ecosystem.
机构信息
Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering, Ministry of Education and Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, People's Republic of China.
出版信息
PLoS One. 2010 May 12;5(5):e10619. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010619.
Microbial ecosystems have been widely used in industrial production, but the inter-relationships of organisms within them haven't been completely clarified due to complex composition and structure of natural microbial ecosystems. So it is challenging for ecologists to get deep insights on how ecosystems function and interplay with surrounding environments. But the recent progresses in synthetic biology show that construction of artificial ecosystems where relationships of species are comparatively clear could help us further uncover the meadow of those tiny societies. By using two quorum-sensing signal transduction circuits, this research designed, simulated and constructed a synthetic ecosystem where various population dynamics formed by changing environmental factors. Coherent experimental data and mathematical simulation in our study show that different antibiotics levels and initial cell densities can result in correlated population dynamics such as extinction, obligatory mutualism, facultative mutualism and commensalism. This synthetic ecosystem provides valuable information for addressing questions in ecology and may act as a chassis for construction of more complex microbial ecosystems.
微生物生态系统已被广泛应用于工业生产中,但由于自然微生物生态系统组成和结构复杂,其内部生物的相互关系尚未完全阐明。因此,生态学家很难深入了解生态系统如何运作以及与周围环境相互作用。但最近合成生物学的进展表明,构建物种关系相对清晰的人工生态系统可以帮助我们进一步揭开这些微小社会的神秘面纱。本研究通过使用两种群体感应信号转导电路,设计、模拟和构建了一个可以通过改变环境因素形成各种种群动态的人工合成生态系统。本研究中一致的实验数据和数学模拟表明,不同的抗生素水平和初始细胞密度会导致相关的种群动态,如灭绝、强制共生、兼性共生和共栖。该合成生态系统为解决生态学中的问题提供了有价值的信息,并可能成为构建更复杂微生物生态系统的底盘。
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