Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Balancing a genetic toggle switch by real-time feedback control and periodic forcing

  • Jean-Baptiste Lugagne,
  • Sebastián Sosa Carrillo,
  • Melanie Kirch,
  • Agnes Köhler,
  • Gregory Batt,
  • Pascal Hersen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01498-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Cybergenetics aims to monitor and regulate cellular processes in real-time using computer monitoring and feedback of biological readouts. Here the authors use a feedback loop and periodic forcing to maintain cells with a bistable synthetic circuit near its unstable state.