A dual light-controlled co-culture system enables the regulation of population composition

With the development of metabolic engineering, increasing requirements for efficient microbial biosynthesis call for establishment of multi-strain co-culture system. Dynamic regulation of population ratios is crucial for optimizing bioproduction performance. Optogenetic systems with high universalit...

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Main Authors: Wei Jiang, Yijian Guo, Xuanshuo Liang, Ying Zhang, Jianning Kang, Zhengxin Jin, Bin Ning
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2025-06-01
Series:Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405805X25000201
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Summary:With the development of metabolic engineering, increasing requirements for efficient microbial biosynthesis call for establishment of multi-strain co-culture system. Dynamic regulation of population ratios is crucial for optimizing bioproduction performance. Optogenetic systems with high universality and flexibility have the potential to realize dynamic control of population proportion. In this study, we utilized an optimized chromatic acclimation sensor/regulator (CcaS/R) system and a blue light-activated YF1-FixJ-PhlF system as induction modules. A pair of orthogonal quorum sensing systems and a toxin-antitoxin system were employed as communication module and effector module, respectively. By integrating these modules, we developed a dual light-controlled co-culture system that enables dynamic regulation of population ratios. This co-culture system provides a universal toolkit for applications in metabolic engineering and synthetic biology.
ISSN:2405-805X