Environment Constrains Fitness Advantages of Division of Labor in Microbial Consortia Engineered for Metabolite Push or Pull Interactions

Limitation by a shared mutualist promotes coexistence of multiple competing partners

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Pseudomonas aeruginosa reverse diauxie is a multidimensional, optimized, resource utilization strategy

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In silico Analysis of Synthetic Multispecies Biofilms for Cellobiose-to-Isobutanol Conversion Reveals Design Principles for Stable and Productive Communities

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Engineering Microbiomes—Looking Ahead

(2020) Eric D. Lee et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Artificial consortium demonstrates emergent properties of enhanced cellulosic-sugar degradation and biofuel synthesis

(2020) Heejoon Park et al.   npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Costless metabolic secretions as drivers of interspecies interactions in microbial ecosystems

(2019) Alan R. Pacheco et al.   Nature Communications

Broadening the Scope of Enforced ATP Wasting as a Tool for Metabolic Engineering in Escherichia coli

(2019) Simon Boecker et al.   Biotechnology Journal

In Silico Metabolic Design of Two‐Strain Biofilm Systems Predicts Enhanced Biomass Production and Biochemical Synthesis

(2019) Ayushi Patel et al.   Biotechnology Journal

Role of resource allocation and transport in emergence of cross-feeding in microbial consortia

(2019) Diana Schepens et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Reconciling Ecological and Engineering Design Principles for Building Microbiomes

(2019) Hans C. Bernstein   mSystems

EcoFABs: advancing microbiome science through standardized fabricated ecosystems

(2019) Karsten Zengler et al.   NATURE METHODS

Evidence for a multi-level trophic organization of the human gut microbiome

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Competitive resource allocation to metabolic pathways contributes to overflow metabolisms and emergent properties in cross-feeding microbial consortia

(2018) Ross P. Carlson et al.   BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS

Metabolic division of labor in microbial systems

(2018) Ryan Tsoi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phenotypic responses to interspecies competition and commensalism in a naturally-derived microbial co-culture

(2018) Nymul Khan et al.   Scientific Reports

Evaluation of the pH buffer capacity of natural lake waters in western Siberia: Criteria of resistance to acidification

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Redox reactions and weak buffering capacity lead to acidification in the Chesapeake Bay

(2017) Wei-Jun Cai et al.   Nature Communications

Why Do Fast-Growing Bacteria Enter Overflow Metabolism? Testing the Membrane Real Estate Hypothesis

(2017) Mariola Szenk et al.   Cell Systems

Elucidation of complexity and prediction of interactions in microbial communities

(2017) Cristal Zuñiga et al.   Microbial Biotechnology

Microbial mutualism dynamics governed by dose-dependent toxicity of cross-fed nutrients

(2016) Breah LaSarre et al.   ISME Journal

Investigation of pH and Temperature Profiles in the GI Tract of Fasted Human Subjects Using the Intellicap® System

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Physiological, biomass elemental composition and proteomic analyses of Escherichia coli ammonium-limited chemostat growth, and comparison with iron- and glucose-limited chemostat growth

(2015) James Patrick Folsom et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Metabolic dependencies drive species co-occurrence in diverse microbial communities

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Ecological communities by design

(2015) J. K. Fredrickson   SCIENCE

Long-term trends in water chemistry of acid-sensitive Swedish lakes show slow recovery from historic acidification

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Physiological and Proteomic Analysis of Escherichia coli Iron-Limited Chemostat Growth

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Mechanisms of synergy in polymicrobial infections

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Evolutionary game theory: cells as players

(2014) Sabine Hummert et al.   Molecular BioSystems

Syntrophic exchange in synthetic microbial communities

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Fitness and stability of obligate cross-feeding interactions that emerge upon gene loss in bacteria

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An application programming interface for CellNetAnalyzer

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Synthetic Escherichia coli consortia engineered for syntrophy demonstrate enhanced biomass productivity

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Economics of membrane occupancy and respiro-fermentation

(2011) K. Zhuang et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

Metabolite Cross-Feeding Enhances Virulence in a Model Polymicrobial Infection

(2011) Matthew M. Ramsey et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Deletion of Genes Encoding Cytochrome Oxidases and Quinol Monooxygenase Blocks the Aerobic-Anaerobic Shift in Escherichia coli K-12 MG1655

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A resource ratio theory of cooperation

(2010) Claire de Mazancourt et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Emergent cooperation in microbial metabolism

(2010) Edwin H Wintermute et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

Shifts in growth strategies reflect tradeoffs in cellular economics

(2009) Douwe Molenaar et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

Rules of Engagement: Interspecies Interactions that Regulate Microbial Communities

(2008) Ainslie E.F. Little et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Decomposition of complex microbial behaviors into resource-based stress responses

(2008) Ross P. Carlson   BIOINFORMATICS

Engineering microbial consortia: a new frontier in synthetic biology

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