Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Single strain control of microbial consortia

  • Alex J. H. Fedorec,
  • Behzad D. Karkaria,
  • Michael Sulu,
  • Chris P. Barnes

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22240-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Engineered microbial communities can divide labour between their members and interface with natural microbiomes. Here the authors demonstrate how a single toxin producing engineered strain can tune the composition of a two-strain community.