Sunday, December 11, 2011

Engineering whole-cell biosensors with no antibiotic markers for monitoring aromatic compounds in the environment.



Gene regulation is one of the foci of synthetic biology research. This paper provides further insight into the engineering of components of a gene regulatory network for whole-cell biosensors’ physical and chemical signals. Its aim is to increase the sensitivity of a particular genetic circuit towards XylR inducers. XylR is a transcriptional regulator of the TOL pathway of Pseudomonas putida mt-2. The TOL plasmid encodes a pathway for the catabolism of toluene and xylenes.

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