Nature Communications (Apr 2022)

Redesigning regulatory components of quorum-sensing system for diverse metabolic control

  • Chang Ge,
  • Zheng Yu,
  • Huakang Sheng,
  • Xiaolin Shen,
  • Xinxiao Sun,
  • Yifei Zhang,
  • Yajun Yan,
  • Jia Wang,
  • Qipeng Yuan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29933-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Existing quorum sensing (QS) circuits are less sophisticated for regulating multiple sets of genes or operons. Here, the authors redesign the luxR-luxI intergenic sequence of the lux-type QS system and apply it to achieve diverse metabolic control in salicylic acid and 4-hydroxycoumarin biosynthesis in E. coli.