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Journal Article
Programmable receptors enable bacterial biosensors to detect pathological biomarkers in clinical samples
2021
Overview
Bacterial biosensors, or bactosensors, are promising agents for medical and environmental diagnostics. However, the lack of scalable frameworks to systematically program ligand detection limits their applications. Here we show how novel, clinically relevant sensing modalities can be introduced into bactosensors in a modular fashion. To do so, we have leveraged a synthetic receptor platform, termed EMeRALD (Engineered Modularized Receptors Activated via Ligand-induced Dimerization) which supports the modular assembly of sensing modules onto a high-performance, generic signaling scaffold controlling gene expression in
E. coli
. We apply EMeRALD to detect bile salts, a biomarker of liver dysfunction, by repurposing sensing modules from enteropathogenic
Vibrio
species. We improve the sensitivity and lower the limit-of-detection of the sensing module by directed evolution. We then engineer a colorimetric bactosensor detecting pathological bile salt levels in serum from patients having undergone liver transplant, providing an output detectable by the naked-eye. The EMeRALD technology enables functional exploration of natural sensing modules and rapid engineering of synthetic receptors for diagnostics, environmental monitoring, and control of therapeutic microbes.
Bacterial biosensors have promising applications in medical and environmental diagnostics. Here the authors use EMeRALD synthetic receptors to design bile salt sensors for use in liver transplant patient serum.
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK,Nature Publishing Group,Nature Portfolio
Subject
/ 13/44
/ 13/95
/ 42/35
/ 42/47
/ 45
/ 49
/ 49/40
/ 96
/ Bacteria
/ Beryl
/ Bile Acids and Salts - blood
/ Biosensing Techniques - methods
/ Carrier Proteins - metabolism
/ E coli
/ Escherichia coli - metabolism
/ Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial
/ Humanities and Social Sciences
/ Humans
/ Ligands
/ Liver
/ Metabolic Engineering - methods
/ Microbiology and Parasitology
/ Modules
/ Pathology, Molecular - methods
/ Patients
/ Salts
/ Science
/ Vibrio
