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Abstract
One of the fundamental properties of engineered large-scale complex systems is modularity. In synthetic biology, genetic parts exhibit context-dependent behavior. Here, we describe and quantify a major source of such behavior: retroactivity. In particular, we provide a step-by-step guide for characterizing retroactivity to restore the modular description of genetic modules. Additionally, we also discuss how retroactivity can be leveraged to quantify and maximize robustness to perturbations due to interconnection of genetic modules.Keywords: Context-dependence; Gene transcription networks; Loading; Model order reduction; Modularity; Retroactivity; Synthetic biology
Year: 2021 PMID: 33405228 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1032-9_14
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Methods Mol Biol ISSN: 1064-3745