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Quorum Sensing CRISPRri System Enables Spatial-level Growth Control and Ultrasensitive Autoregulation of Growth

Based on the well-characterized growth control system, we constructed a quorum sensing CRISPRri system (qs-CRISPRri) to realize smart regulation of bacterial overall states. At first, we use GFP as the output to test our system.

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A time-scale quorum sensing system can be transformed to spatial-level through a donor/receiver system (Figure 1). The donor cells, which merely express and release AHL, would activate the GFP expression of receiver cells through AHL diffusion. This is validated on the agar plate, by dropping the donor cells in the center and receiver cells around them with different distances. We found a progressive decrease in fluorescence as the receiver cells locate farther from central AHL donor (Figure 2).

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