Synthetic Biology: Engineering complexity and refactoring cell capabilities

• Main Author: Jean Marie Fran (auth)
• Other Authors: Pablo Carbonell (auth), Francesca Ceroni (auth), Karmella Ann Haynes (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Biotechnology; metabolism refactoring; metabolic pathway regulation; synthetic biology; complexity; engineering biology; synthetic expression circuit
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

One of the key features of biological systems is complexity, where the behavior of high level structures is more than the sum of the direct interactions between single components. Synthetic Biologists aim to use rational design to build new systems that do not already exist in nature and that exhibi...