Engineered bacteria to report gut function: technologies and implementation.
Curr Opin Microbiol
; 59: 24-33, 2021 02.
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| ID: mdl-32828048
ABSTRACT
Advances in synthetic biology and microbiology have enabled the creation of engineered bacteria which can sense and report on intracellular and extracellular signals. When deployed in vivo these whole-cell bacterial biosensors can act as sentinels to monitor biomolecules of interest in human health and disease settings. This is particularly interesting in the context of the gut microbiota, which interacts extensively with the human host throughout time and transit of the gut and can be accessed from feces without requiring invasive collection. Leveraging rational engineering approaches for genetic circuits as well as an expanding catalog of disease-associated biomarkers, bacterial biosensors can act as non-invasive and easy-to-monitor reporters of the gut. Here, we summarize recent engineering approaches applied in vivo in animal models and then highlight promising technologies for designing the next generation of bacterial biosensors.
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Assunto principal:
Bactérias
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Técnicas Biossensoriais
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Organismos Geneticamente Modificados
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Trato Gastrointestinal
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Microbioma Gastrointestinal
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Animals
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Humans
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En
Ano de publicação:
2021
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Article