Abstract:
:Synthetic biology seeks to envision living cells as a matter of engineering. However, increasing evidence suggests that the genetic load imposed by the incorporation of synthetic devices in a living organism introduces a sort of unpredictability in the design process. As a result, individual part characterization is not enough to predict the behavior of designed circuits and thus, a costly trial-error process is eventually required. In this work, we provide a new theoretical framework for the predictive treatment of the genetic load. We mathematically and experimentally demonstrate that dependences among genes follow a quantitatively predictable behavior. Our theory predicts the observed reduction of the expression of a given synthetic gene when an extra genetic load is introduced in the circuit. The theory also explains that such dependence qualitatively differs when the extra load is added either by transcriptional or translational modifications. We finally show that the limitation of the cellular resources for gene expression leads to a mathematical formulation that converges to an expression analogous to the Ohm's law for electric circuits. Similitudes and divergences with this law are outlined. Our work provides a suitable framework with predictive character for the design process of complex genetic devices in synthetic biology.
journal_name
Nucleic Acids Resjournal_title
Nucleic acids researchauthors
Carbonell-Ballestero M,Garcia-Ramallo E,Montañez R,Rodriguez-Caso C,Macía Jdoi
10.1093/nar/gkv1280subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2016-01-08 00:00:00pages
496-507issue
1eissn
0305-1048issn
1362-4962pii
gkv1280journal_volume
44pub_type
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