IGEM:Harvard/2008/Background Reading

Synthetic Biology

1. Voigt CA. Genetic parts to program bacteria. Curr Opin Biotechnol. 2006 Oct;17(5):548-57. DOI:10.1016/j.copbio.2006.09.001 |
2. Andrianantoandro E, Basu S, Karig DK, and Weiss R. Synthetic biology: new engineering rules for an emerging discipline. Mol Syst Biol. 2006;2:2006.0028. DOI:10.1038/msb4100073 |
3. Drubin DA, Way JC, and Silver PA. Designing biological systems. Genes Dev. 2007 Feb 1;21(3):242-54. DOI:10.1101/gad.1507207 |
4. Keasling JD. Synthetic biology for synthetic chemistry. ACS Chem Biol. 2008 Jan 18;3(1):64-76. DOI:10.1021/cb7002434 |
5. Savage DF, Way J, and Silver PA. Defossiling fuel: how synthetic biology can transform biofuel production. ACS Chem Biol. 2008 Jan 18;3(1):13-6. DOI:10.1021/cb700259j |
6. Lovley DR. Bug juice: harvesting electricity with microorganisms. Nat Rev Microbiol. 2006 Jul;4(7):497-508. DOI:10.1038/nrmicro1442 |
7. Lovley DR. Microbial fuel cells: novel microbial physiologies and engineering approaches. Curr Opin Biotechnol. 2006 Jun;17(3):327-32. DOI:10.1016/j.copbio.2006.04.006 |
8. Reguera G, McCarthy KD, Mehta T, Nicoll JS, Tuominen MT, and Lovley DR. Extracellular electron transfer via microbial nanowires. Nature. 2005 Jun 23;435(7045):1098-101. DOI:10.1038/nature03661 |
9. Cho YK, Donohue TJ, Tejedor I, Anderson MA, McMahon KD, and Noguera DR. Development of a solar-powered microbial fuel cell. J Appl Microbiol. 2008 Mar;104(3):640-50. DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2672.2007.03580.x |
10. Walter JM, Greenfield D, Bustamante C, and Liphardt J. Light-powering Escherichia coli with proteorhodopsin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Feb 13;104(7):2408-12. DOI:10.1073/pnas.0611035104 |
11. Reguera G, Nevin KP, Nicoll JS, Covalla SF, Woodard TL, and Lovley DR. Biofilm and nanowire production leads to increased current in Geobacter sulfurreducens fuel cells. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2006 Nov;72(11):7345-8. DOI:10.1128/AEM.01444-06 |
12. Gorby YA, Yanina S, McLean JS, Rosso KM, Moyles D, Dohnalkova A, Beveridge TJ, Chang IS, Kim BH, Kim KS, Culley DE, Reed SB, Romine MF, Saffarini DA, Hill EA, Shi L, Elias DA, Kennedy DW, Pinchuk G, Watanabe K, Ishii S, Logan B, Nealson KH, and Fredrickson JK. Electrically conductive bacterial nanowires produced by Shewanella oneidensis strain MR-1 and other microorganisms. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 Jul 25;103(30):11358-63. DOI:10.1073/pnas.0604517103 |