Taeok Kim, Minji Ko, Eugene Rha, Haseong Kim, Hyewon Lee
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Abstract
The interdisciplinary nature of synthetic biology merges engineering principles with biology and provides innovative solutions for issues in the biomanufacturing industry. To develop industrially applicable biocatalysts and/or microbial cell factories, a design-build-test-learn cycle-based iterative process is necessary, which is often time-consuming and labor-intensive. The integration of microfluidic technologies into synthetic biology can accelerate these processes, particularly for achieving high-throughput phenotyping and screening. In this review, we examine the potential of microfluidic technologies to revolutionize synthetic biology. Although commercial microfluidics demonstrate superior throughput for single-cell assays, their application can be limited, for example, in cases where products are retained inside the cells. Droplet microfluidics, on the other hand, is a rather flexible platform and shows high diversity in single-cell, cell-to-cell interaction-based, and cell-free reaction-based analyses. By examining previous studies, we have summarized the potential of microfluidic technologies to foster sustainable biomanufacturing and advanced biological engineering.
期刊介绍:
Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering is an international bimonthly journal published by the Korean Society for Biotechnology and Bioengineering. BBE is devoted to the advancement in science and technology in the wide area of biotechnology, bioengineering, and (bio)medical engineering. This includes but is not limited to applied molecular and cell biology, engineered biocatalysis and biotransformation, metabolic engineering and systems biology, bioseparation and bioprocess engineering, cell culture technology, environmental and food biotechnology, pharmaceutics and biopharmaceutics, biomaterials engineering, nanobiotechnology, and biosensor and bioelectronics.