期刊名称:Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
印刷版ISSN:2001-0370
出版年度:2012
卷号:3
期号:0
DOI:10.5936/csbj.201210017
语种:English
出版社:Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
摘要:This mini-review discusses the current state of experimental and computational microbial consortia engineering with a focus on cellular factories. A discussion of promising ecological theories central to community resource usage is presented to facilitate interpretation of consortial designs. Recent case studies exemplifying different resource usage motifs and consortial assembly templates are presented. The review also highlights in silico approaches to design and to analyze consortia with an emphasis on stoichiometric modeling methods. The discipline of microbial consortia engineering possesses a widely accepted potential to generate highly novel and effective bio-catalysts for applications from biofuels to specialty chemicals to enhanced mineral recovery.