Dealing with the genetic load in bacterial synthetic biology circuits: convergences with the Ohm's law.

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 Res

journal_title

Nucleic acids research

authors

Carbonell-Ballestero M,Garcia-Ramallo E,Montañez R,Rodriguez-Caso C,Macía J

doi

10.1093/nar/gkv1280

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2016-01-08 00:00:00

pages

496-507

issue

1

eissn

0305-1048

issn

1362-4962

pii

gkv1280

journal_volume

44

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