Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Reversible thermal regulation for bifunctional dynamic control of gene expression in Escherichia coli

  • Xuan Wang,
  • Jia-Ning Han,
  • Xu Zhang,
  • Yue-Yuan Ma,
  • Yina Lin,
  • Huan Wang,
  • Dian-Jie Li,
  • Tao-Ran Zheng,
  • Fu-Qing Wu,
  • Jian-Wen Ye,
  • Guo-Qiang Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21654-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Genetic circuits can be built with bifunctional dynamic regulation of gene expression. Here the authors design a thermosensitive switch for spatial and temporal control of colony pattern, cell shape and polymer production.